ABSTRACT
Work on ‘objective’ bicycling safety typically focuses on measuring and modelling injuries, crashes, or conflicts. Three sources of data are commonly used: police records, hospital (or other medical facility) admission records, and cyclist surveys where incidents are self-reported. A sub-set of studies on cycling safety specifically examine probabilistic risk. Much of this research identifies the probability of a safety or health-related metric (e.g., injury, collision, all-cause mortality, life-years gained, etc.) resulting from a measure of cycling exposure (e.g., number of days of cycling, total number of trips, time spent cycling). Viewing cycling safety as mobility justice requires thinking through intersecting power relations at multiple scales (e.g., among bodies, streets, cities, nations, and global systems). Mobility justice opens avenues to consider that cyclists’ ability to feel safe is a combined spatial expression of automobility, patriarchy, racism, classism, and other systems/forms of discrimination and oppression.
