In this month’s blog, Louise-Ann Leyland, post-doctoral researcher on the cycle BOOM project writes about her recent travels to Brisbane, Australia, to present the findings from the cycle BOOM Wellbeing and Cognition Trials at the prestigious International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP). The Conference was a global forum at which all those involved… [Read More]
Tales from Taipei: exploring the evolution of cycling
This month Justin Spinney reflects on his visit to the Velo-City Global 2016 Conference, Taipei. Recently I enlarged my carbon footprint further (but all that cycling makes up for it, right?) by attending Velo-City Global in Taipei. As you’d expect from a cycling conference, there were many success stories from around the world reporting ‘best practice’… [Read More]
Moving Emotions: Towards Harmonious and Happy Cycling Cities
“The January Blog is a little later than planned because the team has been fully occupied with data analysis – including data visualisation as Carl Mann (University of Cardiff) explains here.” Throughout 2015, the cycle BOOM project collected a second wave of data from the local residents of Cardiff and Reading. We are interested in… [Read More]
Wrapping up a data packed 2015!
It’s been a busy year for the cycle BOOM team. In 2015, we completed almost all of our fieldwork with just a few remaining participants to recruit for our cycling and wellbeing trials. In the early part of 2016, we will focus on making sense of the information and data that has been accumulated over the… [Read More]
cycle BOOM: moving to the next phase
Tim Jones provides an update on progress and looks ahead to the next phase of the cycle BOOM project. It’s been a busy summer for cycle BOOM. The researchers have been busy recruiting and conducting research with remaining participants at our four sites (Oxford, Bristol, Cardiff and Reading). Meanwhile, back at HQ, Nick Beale, our… [Read More]
“Best thing since they invented the jet engine!”
This quote came from one of our cycle BOOM participants after he had been riding the Raleigh ‘Motus’ e-bike for a couple of weeks, as part of his 8-week ‘wellbeing and cognition’ cycle trial. Read on to find our what others on our e-bike trial have been saying. First, a little background on the wellbeing trials;… [Read More]
