The emergence of cycling mobility in cities

Abstract

Mobiliy has come in the “Achiles heel” of the fight against climate change, since it still is a growing-emission economic sector, despite the policies already designed and implemented. However, the undesired effects of the current mobility model do not end there. These undesired consequences in the cities go far beyond greenhouse gas emissions. Local atmospheric pollution, lowered public health standards, insecurity, lack of equity and bad urban habitability are also issues of great concern. In this context, comes to no surprise that cycling, which was a very popular means of transportation before and after WWII, is experimenting a sort of Renaissance in many cities to tackle these problems. This issue of Habitat y Sociedad journal pretends to contribute to this debate, containing papers that explore the emergence of cycling mobility in cities in order to solve these problems, as well as deeply discuss the role of cycling in order to give an input to the development of a sustainable, healthy and fair urban mobility system.