Cycling and Active Mobility – Establishing a Third Pillar of Transport Policy

Virtually every community strives to be healthy, safe, prosperous and lively. Increasingly, experts recognize that walking, cycling and public space improvements can play major roles in attaining these goals (see for example Gehl 2010). As a result, many communities are considering policies to improve walking and cycling conditions and to encourage the use of these modes. The paradigm used to evaluate transportation problems and solutions, that is, how walking and cycling are ‘framed’ as transport mode, can significantly affect how these policies are implemented (Litman 2013).