ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with several established social psychological concepts and applies them to interactions between roadway users to provide guidance on accounting for race and racism in bicycle policy and planning. It introduces a conceptual model of roadway interactions as a framework for understanding the potential impacts and interactions of physical, individual, and sociocultural factors on the interactions of drivers and bicyclists. The chapter expresses that explicit or implicit racial biases, both at the individual and system level might explain the increased perceptions and realities of danger for bicyclists of color in particular. It examines the ways that current applied research and planning discussions ignore race, even among some of the best examples of bicycle planning discourse and research. The chapter concludes with a discussion of why engaged bicycle professionals should concern themselves with social psychological factors of roadway interactions, and how the roadway interactions are poorly understood but are of vital importance to a just bicycle future.
