Universität zu Köln

Hudde, Ansgar ORCID: 0000-0001-8421-9840 (2022). Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities. Sociol.-J. Brit. Sociol. Assoc., 56 (5). S. 909 - 930. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1469-8684

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Abstract

Cycling is an environmentally sustainable social practice that contributes to liveable cities and provides affordable and healthy transport. People with lower education could particularly benefit from cycling, as they tend to fare worse regarding finances and health. However, in bivariate analyses, those with lower education cycle less. This article discusses the social meaning of cycling and investigates whether the education-cycling association holds after accounting for (1) confounders and (2) factors that determine decision leeway between different transport modes. I analyse approximately 80,000 short-distance trips (0.5-7.5 km) reported by 28,000 working-age individuals from cities in Germany using multilevel linear probability regression models. Results support that higher education systematically and substantially increases the propensity to cycle. This education gap implies major untapped potential for environmental sustainability, that current pro-cycling policies in cities disproportionally favour the highly educated and that cycling patterns contribute to inequalities in finances and health.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hudde, Ansgar UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8421-9840 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-660108
DOI:	10.1177/00380385211063366
Journal or Publication Title:	Sociol.-J. Brit. Sociol. Assoc.
Volume:	56
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 909 - 930
Date:	2022
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1469-8684
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIOECONOMIC POSITION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; TRAVEL; URBAN; ASSOCIATIONS; TRANSPORT; BICYCLE; GREEN; NETHERLANDS; MOBILITY Multiple languages Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66010