{"id":4479,"date":"2016-06-28T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2016-06-28T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:53:46","slug":"backpedaling-bike-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2016\/06\/backpedaling-bike-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Backpedaling on Bike Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2016\/06\/backpedaling-bike-ownership\/sauleh\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4809\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sauleh-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of Sauleh Siddiqui\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sauleh.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sauleh-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sauleh-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Bicycling has been shown to improve health<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and reduce the carbon footprint<strong>\u2014<\/strong>which makes the results of a recent Whiting School study all the more discouraging.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2014published in the<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Journal of Transport &amp; Health<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/civil\/faculty\/sauleh-siddiqui\/\">Sauleh\u00a0Siddiqui<\/a>, assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/civil\/\">civil engineering<\/a>, and\u00a0Olufolajimi\u00a0Oke, a civil engineering PhD candidate\u2014found that the number of bicycle owners plummeted nearly 50 percent over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Siddiqui,\u00a0Oke, and colleagues from other departments mined data from 1.25 billion households and 148 countries, gathered for more than 20 years by the U.N., World\u00a0Bank, and other organizations.\u00a0The analysis is the first study of bike ownership trends from a global perspective\u2014and it\u2019s leading to striking insights.<\/p>\n<p>In China, for instance, nearly every household (97.2 percent) owned a bicycle in 1992, compared with just 48.7 percent in 2007. Why the nosedive?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina is reorganizing very quickly, with cities undergoing massive changes and residents changing from traditional modes of transportation\u2014walking and riding bicycles\u2014to more modern modes\u2014buses and cars,\u201d Siddiqui says.<\/p>\n<p>A lack of safety and, ironically, rising pollution contribute too. \u201cGlobally, traffic accidents have gone up, and in urban areas, air quality is getting worse, making it a potential health hazard to ride a bike outdoors,\u201d Siddiqui explains.<\/p>\n<p>In Scandinavia and other parts of northern Europe, bicycling remains a top mode of transportation\u2014not surprisingly, given the vast network of\u00a0bike lanes prompting people to\u00a0pedal. Culture and lifestyle also make a difference, Siddiqui notes. In the African nation Burkina Faso, where cycling\u00a0is a beloved sport\u2014and the country is home to the popular Tour du Faso,\u00a0a 10-day cycling event\u201484 percent of households owned a bike in 2010. Likewise, in Vietnam, where numbers have remained steady over many years, bicycling is a way of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bicycling has been shown to improve health\u00a0and reduce the carbon footprint\u2014which makes the results of a recent Whiting School study all the more discouraging. 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