[PR] Dublin Cycling Campaign Annual Lecture - Planning for Pedals

[Colm Moore]

Dublin Cycling Campaign Annual Lecture

Planning for Pedals - Thursday 15 May 2008, 8.00pm
Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin (accessed from Nassau Street or from main College Green entrance). Free of Charge

Dr. John Parkin will give the Dublin Cycling Campaign Annual Lecture 2008. His talk will explore policies for promoting cycling, based on a UK study of cycle use for commuting. He'll ask, what factors affect bicycle use?

Gender; socio-economic class; income; ethnicity; infrastructure; weather; hilliness? He'll explain policies of creating bicycle networks and consider the importance of accounting for the effort of cycling and the concept of 'permeability' of an area to cyclists.


Dr. John Parkin is Reader in Transport Engineering and Planning at the University of Bolton and has wide interests that encompass quality design, innovation, sustainability principles, evaluation, safety and community benefit. He divides his time between teaching, research & consultancy

He is the principal author of the design guidance Lancashire the cyclists' county and delivers training on this manual and the London Cycle Design Standards. He is engaged in research on the impact of cycle training interventions and in monitoring cycle use levels for after infrastructure interventions.

The Dublin Cycling Campaign is a voluntary body working to represent the interests of Dublin's everyday cyclists, and to lobby to make Dublin a bicycle friendly city.

www.dublincycling.ie