We aim to provide a list of Web-based reference material of use to Cycle Campaigners, and those interested in Sustainable Transport.
This page contains links to official guidance and other reference material.
- See also: Useful list of abbreviations
Bicycle User Groups (BUGs)
British Standards
Design guides
- London Cycling Design Guide (part of the Streets toolkit) (TfL)
- Shared use routes to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists (DfT, 2012)
- CTC : Cycle-friendly design and planning (2012)
- Cycle-friendly infrastructure – a cycle campaigner’s bible
- Cycle Audit and Cycle Review
- Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
- Edinburgh Design Guide
- Cyclists at Road Narrowings
- Sustrans: National Cycle Network Guidelines and practical details, information sheets, etc.
- Transport for London: London Cycling Design Standards
- Scottish government: Cycling by Design
Health
- All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2000)
- Walking & Cycling for Transport – How promoting active travel can help meet the physical activity challenge (CEDAR, 2013)
- Health, fitness, physical activity, and morbidity of middle aged male factory workers I (British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1986) Source for the claim ‘cycling gives you the fitness of someone ten years younger’
- Reduced sickness absence in regular commuter cyclists can save employers 27 million euros (TNO – Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)
- Health Survey For England (Dept of Health)
- British Medical Journal paper: Three lessons for a better cycling future (Wardlaw)
- British Medical Journal paper: Cycling and health promotion (Editorial)
Helmets
See also our main helmet information page.
- Evaluation of New Zealand’s bicycle helmet law (New Zealand Medical Journal, 2012)
- Severe street and mountain bicycling injuries in adults: a comparison of the incidence, risk factors and injury patterns over 14 years (Canadian Journal of Surgery, 2013)
- Publication bias and time-trend bias in meta-analysis of bicycle helmet efficacy: A re-analysis of Attewell, Glase and McFadden, 2001 (Elvik, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2011)
- Mandatory bicycle helmet law in New Zealand (cyclehelmets.com)
- Risk Compensation and Bicycle Helmets (Phillips, Fyhri, and Sagberg, Risk Analysis, 2011)
- Bicycle helmets and the law (Ben Goldacre and David Spiegelhalter, BMJ, 2013)
- Helmet legislation and admissions to hospital for cycling related head injuries in Canadian provinces and territories: interrupted time series analysis (BMJ, 2013)
- Bicycle Helmets – A review of their effectiveness (UK Government) [PDF]
- Bicycle Helmet Effectiveness – a broader perspective (critique of Government report) [PDF]
- Cycle helmets: a summary of research
- Cyclists Rights Action Group (CRAG) – comprehensive information on cycle helmets
- Bicycle helmets in Australia
- An interview with Mayer Hillman about road safety
- Cycle helmets, the case for and against – by Mayer Hillman
- Bicycle helmet FAQ
- The effectiveness of cycle helmets, by John Franklin [PDF]
- Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
- www.cycle-helmets.com – research on the situation in Western Australia
History
- I Pay Road Tax Carlton Reid on the history of vehicle taxation
- Roads Were Not Built For Cars Reid again, on the history of roads
Home Zones
Integrated Transport Policy
Local transport issues
- Propensity to Cycle tool
- Disappearing traffic? The story so far (S. Cairns, S. Atkins and P. Goodwin, Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers)
- The True Costs of Automobility: External Costs of Cars (Technical University of Dresden)
- John Franklin’s information on cycling
- Restriping existing roads with cycle lanes [PDF]
- City of Portland bicycle program
Miscellaneous
Mileage allowance
Planning Policy
- NICE : Walking and cycling (PH41) Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation (2012)
- NICE : Physical activity and the environment (PH8) Guidance on the promotion and creation of physical environments that support increased levels of physical activity (2008)
- Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
- Planning Policy Guidance 13: Transport [PDF]
Park & ride
Pedestrianisation
Perceptions
- Attitudes of Europeans towards urban mobility (European Commission, 2013)
- Understanding Public Attitudes to Road-User Safety (University of the West of England/DfT, 2010)
- Drivers’ perception of cyclists
Pollution
- Something in the Air: The forgotten crisis of Britain’s poor air quality (Policy Exchange thinktank, 2012)
- Air quality: Facts and figures (WHO)
- Environmental Audit Committee – Fifth Report (Air Quality) (House of Commons, 2010)
- ETA Report: Road user exposure to air pollution
Rights of way
Road Closures
- New Scientist article – Closing Roads Cuts Traffic (registration necessary for this site)
- The Trouble With Roads: why adding roads can slow traffic down
Safety
- Exposure-Based, ‘Like-for-Like’ Assessment of Road Safety by Travel Mode Using Routine Health Data (PLOS One, 2012)
- Route Infrastructure and the Risk of Injuries to Bicyclists: A Case-Crossover Study (American Journal of Public Health, 2012)
- Collisions involving pedal cyclists on Britain’s roads: establishing the causes (TRL, 2008)
- Pedalling towards Safety (European Transport Safety Council)
- Safety in numbers: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling (BMJ paper by P L Jacobsen)
- Safety Audits
- Highway Code
Signage
Speed
- New speed limit guidance for councils (DfT, 2013)
- Road Traffic Speed (Select Committee Report)
- Synthesis of research related to speed
- Travelling speed and the risk of crash involvement
- Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) – Managing speeds of traffic on European roads
- The Transport Research Laboratory’s statement on the facts of speed [PDF]
Statistics (STATS19 collision)
- Road accidents and safety statistics (DfT)
- Data sets (national)
- 2012 Joint Road Casualty Data Report (Cambridgeshire)
- Collision data (Cambridgeshire)
- Collision data reports (CycleStreets)
- Road Safety Statistics for Cambridge City 2009-2011 (Cottenham Cyclist blog)
Statistics (other)
- Reported road casualties in Great Britain: main results (DfT)
- 2011 census
- National Travel Survey (DfT)
- Local area walking and cycling in England (DfT)
- Pedal cyclist collisions and casualties in Greater London (TfL)
- Facts and Figures from Transport 2000
- DfT statistics – Cycling in Great Britain (1995) [PDF]
- Key government transport statistics (1992-2002)
Strategies
- The Mayor’s Vision for Cycling in London (2013)
- The London Cycling Action Plan: ‘Creating a chain reaction’ (2004) [PDF]
- Cambridge City Council Walking and Cycling Strategy (2002) [PDF]
- National Cycling Strategy (1996) [PDF]
Streetworks
Summaries of campaigning resources
- Cycling Bibliography: list of resources from the DfT – useful pointers to many resources (2002) [PDF]
- Cycling Bibliography (2005) [PDF]