the Dutch Marco you Brömmelstroetin ”the Cycling Professor”-account is on Twitter (you move to another service) more than 30 000 followers. City cycling of the understanding you can study, you Brömmelstroetin under the leadership of the Amsterdam university.
the Weekend professor visiting Finland. He participated in the bicycle union to organise VeloFinland event at otaniemi in Espoo. Cycling the professor of the subject in Finland was that we must change the way in which traffic talk, or nothing will change.
the Name of the ”Cycling Professor” or in Dutch ”fietsprofessor” has caused you Brömmelstroetille also trouble. A man is in his home country quite well known. For many he is a strenuous cycling activist, whose work keeps trying to ridicule.
– I’m not even so interested in cycling. I’m a social scientist, who works for the movement of people. I am an active cyclist, but academically I’m not a cycling activist. I am interested in cities. I use cycling as a lens through which to view mission.
in Amsterdam, cycling is the most common, but not always. 50 years ago, cycling the threat to your end of town completely. Cycling increased only in 1975 after the resumption. Marcin Rogozinski / AOP
Marco you Brömmelstroetin the Urban Cycling Institute (switch to another service) examines how cities affect cycling and how cycling cities. Professor, I hope that cycling for academic research would get more attention.
we’re just writing a summary that cycling is fully ylitutkittua at the moment. So many studying the cycling related things today. For me cycling is so much more than the question of why people cycling or not cycling.
Difficult things can make a joke
cycling professor knows very well how traffic rules poorly comply with the cyclists using people nerve. Marco te Brömmelstroet said that the fault could be that the traffic rules are designed for a time when motoring dominating. Such rules no longer reflect modern cities go.
we Talk about traversing the one hundred year old concepts. It does not help us to change, but supports the current development.
Marco te Brömmelstroet
When you Brömmelstroet wants to describe how transport planning, the starting point has always been the motorists as far as possible a smooth movement, he might tell a joke.
Motorist, a cyclist and a pedestrian went to the bar. The bar table is 12 beer. The motorist took ten beers and yelps then a pedestrian for that watch out, the cyclist trying to take your beer.
cycling the professor according to the common use of the wheel you are not only a positive thing. Shared use cycling comes to consumerism and the cyclist, services to the purchasing customer. Tiina Jutila / Yle
the Joke lesson is that if cycling is required more space, it is cleared pedestrians from. The professor noted that pedestrians and cyclists between is a lot of conflict, but neither can see it, the actual elephant in the room.
Perhaps pedestrians and cyclists could join forces. Engineers and designers could end up the fact that what if their needs were for a change dominant.
the cyclist was hit by a car
the Urban Cycling institute in this research, how traffic accidents are reported in the Dutch media. Scientists have gone through 370 news articles.
– for Some reason the news people have distanced especially if it is the vehicle drivers. In most parts of the let’s talk about the victim so that pedestrians die or a cyclist injured in a collision in the car or truck. It is almost mechanical way to express what has happened.
Copenhagen is one of Europe’s biggest cycling cities. Glyn Thomas / AOP
the Professor recalls that the language used affects how we describe the world. Language edit our perceptions.
– 60-80% of the words are metaphors. Things are too complex, so that they can talk to a.
Traffic such language use has a you Brömmelstroetin according to the traditions the period when the street network was built in the 1920s and car lobbyists had to fight in order to get the car more and more. The car industry was the close relationship between the media and the attention seeking was to turn off the car caused by accidents.
– we are Talking about traversing the one hundred year old concepts. It does not help us to change, but supports the current development.
cycling city but a bad wheel city
Marco te Brömmelstroet is happy to respond to questions such as, should I say, Helsinki cycling more. Professor of according to the actual sustainable development does not arise from individual factors such as carbon emissions, congestion, or safety.
– I am also interested in social sustainability, i.e. how much you’re dealing with other people, how people get out of lokeroistaan. It could be important for loneliness, the fight against which is a problem across the world.
in Finland, it has been noted that more and more children not able or allowed to drive a bike. Tiina Jutila / Yle
And you Brömmelstroetin another important aspect is the children’s independence. It is known that the transport of children by car which place accumulates. When enough people take their children to school and activities by car, point the rest of the take. It might mean that cycling can be threatened.
If we do not understand why this is important, we find point lose cycling skills. The later children start cycling, the more dangerous it is for them. They become independent worse, and it is a problem.
Still, the professor doesn’t know very much independent cycling impact on children’s development, but something we know already. In holland children cycling a little and understand it better how the city works. Physically active children perceive the environment better.
cycling being talked about congestion in the solver, but then the problems are solved, for example, by building up the bike lanes. If cycling be perceived as important for a child’s independence because it would lead to more car free cities or school in the direction of.
Marco te Brömmelstroet noted, too, that a good bike as a city itself should be the city may be one in which children are ultimately less free.
– If the thinking does not change, the wheels came only tiny cars.
see also: Civic stalling – more and more children does not know how to ride a bike
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