Research Articles

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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Sex Differences in Driver Risk and Behavior

What the evidence actually shows about male and female drivers: exposure, risk-taking, crash rates, injury vulnerability, and how much of the gap is culture versus biology.

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How Car-Dependent Grocery Trips Turn Into Food Waste

How car-based supermarket runs encourage overbuying and food waste in the U.S—and how bikeable, dense neighborhoods flip the script.

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Big Cars, Small Freedom

How oversized SUVs and pickup trucks are sabotaging walkable cities, safety, and climate — and why we need to deflate the big-car arms race.

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Is the Hornit Enough to Keep You Safe?

A short, practical review of the Hornit siren-style bike horn, and why a car-horn-like option such as the Loud Mini can work better in real traffic emergencies.

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Cycling for Environmental Health: Air Quality, Noise, and Population-Level Benefits

How shifting everyday trips from cars to bikes cuts air pollution, reduces harmful noise, and delivers outsized population-level health benefits.

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Sleep, Quiet, and Recovery: How Bikes Give Our Nervous Systems a Break

How traffic noise disrupts sleep, circadian rhythms, and stress recovery—and how cycling and quiet transit can help restore nightly recovery.

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Your Lizard Brain on Loud Horns: Why Sound Beats Sight in Traffic Emergencies

How human hearing reacts faster than vision, how loud warning sounds tap into fight-or-flight circuits, and what this means for safe car and bicycle horn design.

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London’s Low-Traffic Revolt: When Quiet Streets Go to Court

London’s low-traffic neighbourhoods have slashed road injuries, ignited a ‘war on motorists’ narrative, and produced court rulings in both directions—making the city a live test of how evidence and politics collide.

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Beyond Home and Work: Bikes, Third Places, and Social Health Across the Lifespan

How walking, cycling, and people-first streets can cut loneliness and rebuild social health from childhood through older age in car-centric societies.

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