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What is the level of cycling in Switzerland? Many observers have demonstrated the renaissance of the bicycle in Western cities, but what about in Swiss urban centres?
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This measure takes into account the services offered by mobility (travelling to a workplace, for example, irrespective of distance or means of transport used). Other indicators—distance, duration and stage, where ‘stage’ denotes a defined portion of travel via a mode of transport—are more frequently used in the analysis of the Mobility and Transport Microcensus but also have certain limitations. Distance gives a greater weighting to long-range transport (train and car) and stage to walking, e.g. (including from a parking spot or a public transport station to the final destination). According to these indicators, the share of cycling is 2.4% of distances, 5.2% of total journey duration and 5.3% of stages.
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The differences between cities are indeed far from resulting only from their topography or linguistic region. They reflect their urban form and density, the distribution of economic activities and housing, the attractiveness of other forms of mobility but also, and perhaps above all, the place of cycling in political priorities and the quality of the amenities, infrastructure and services made available. Cyclists’ feelings of safety (see Sect. 10.3) and the assessment of how their needs are being taken into consideration by the public authorities (see Sect. 11.1) will clarify this point.
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Rérat, P. (2021). Cycling in Switzerland. In: Cycling to Work. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62256-5_3
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