Research

Calgary Put a Bike-Lane Network on Trial—and Measured Everything

Calgary’s 18-month cycle-track pilot measured ridership, safety, winter use, traffic, demographics, and business impacts before going permanent.

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Cycling and Brain Health: How Regular Riding Protects Memory and Aging Brains

How regular cycling boosts brain health, supports cognitive function, and may lower dementia risk across the lifespan, with evidence-backed tips for aging well.

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Cycling’s Hidden Dividend: The Economics of Two Wheels vs Four

How riding a bike instead of driving saves households money, boosts local business, and pays cities back through health and infrastructure savings.

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Do E-Bikes Actually Replace Car Trips? What Studies Show

Do e-bikes really replace car trips? A research-based look at how much driving they actually displace, and what it takes for e-bikes to cut car use.

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Do Bike Lanes Hurt Local Businesses? What Controlled Studies Actually Find

Controlled studies test how bike lanes affect local business sales, jobs, vacancies, customer visits, parking, and construction disruption.

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Cycling for Physical Health: Turning Everyday Trips into Exercise

How everyday cycling improves heart, metabolic, and musculoskeletal health—and how simple safety upgrades like lights and car-horn-loud bicycle horns make it easier to ride consistently.

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Growing Up on Two Wheels: How Independent Mobility Builds Healthier, Happier Kids and Teens

Evidence from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and beyond shows that kids who walk and cycle independently gain physical, cognitive, and mental health benefits that last into adulthood.

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Staying Upright, Staying Independent: How Everyday Mobility Protects Health in Older Age

From walking speed to bicycle trips to the shops, everyday mobility is one of the strongest predictors of health, independence, and quality of life in older adults.

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Do Protected Bike Lanes Reduce Crash Risk? Count the Riders First

Do protected bike lanes reduce crash risk? London’s Cycle Superhighways show why cyclist exposure, design, and intersections change the answer.

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What Blocks Bike Lanes

Explore the vehicles behind crowdsourced bike-lane obstruction reports. A photo-based breakdown with fleet counts and links to the original reports.

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The Psychoacoustics of the Two-Tone Horn

Why car horns use two notes to hack the auditory system: an analysis of spectral loudness summation, critical bands, and neural recruitment.

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