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Livability Library: Bicycling

Links to articles, tool kits, reports, photo albums, surveys and more

FEATURED

AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit

Learn how to get this free publication and its accompanying worksheets (available in English and Spanish). Learn More

Front and back covers of the AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit

ALSO SEE THE PAGE: Getting Around: Bicycling

BICYCLE TYPES

Different Bikes for Different Cyclists (2023)

Bike-Sharing: Past, Present and Future (2018)

Bike-Sharing Gets Older Adults Cycling (2018)

Would an E-Bike Get You Cycling? (2018)

BICYCLING BENEFITS

10 Ways Bicycle-Friendly Streets Are Good for People Who Don't Ride Bicycles (2016)

Why Public Transit, Bicycling and Our Feet Are Leading to a Brighter Future (2015)

BICYCLING FOR ALL AGES

AARP Community Challenge Bicycling Photo Album (2023)

Take a Kid at Heart on a Bicycle Ride (2018)

Le Tour de Ham: All Bicyclists Welcome. No Spandex Required (2018)

How to Organize a Ciclovia or Open Streets Event (2015)

Bicycles Aren't Just for Kids (2015)

Video: A Successful Open Streets Program with Gil Penalosa (2015)

FREE PUBLICATIONS AND WORKSHEETS

AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit and Worksheets (2023)

Kit de AARP para auditorías sobre el uso de bicicletas (2023)

ROAD DESIGN AND SAFETY

Pop-Up Recipes for Bike Lanes (2019)

Street-Level Solutions for Safer Cycling (2018)

This Garden Grows Safe Cyclists (2018)

How to Reduce Car-vs-Bicycle Crashes by 81 Percent (2017)

Pop-Up Protected Bike Lanes (2016)

Vision Zero Looks to Make Streets Safer (2015)

11 Vision Zero Solutions (2015)

RESEARCH AND REPORTS

Data About Bicycling and Walking by Older Adults (2021)

50+ Cycling Survey (2020)

Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2018 Benchmarking Report

Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2016 Benchmarking Report

Q&A INTERVIEWS

Leah Shahum of the Vision Zero Network (2016)

Anthony Foxx, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, on Ped-Bike Safety (2014)

^{Related content can also be found via the archives and landing pages for Transportation (especially in the "Complete Streets" section), the AARP Community Challenge, the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities and AARP International's Equity by Design: Global Dialogue and Equity by Design: Principles in Action series.}