This page contains the programme of the 2024 Cycling and Society Symposium in Porto. Where available, a link is provided to download the pdf of each item.
Education – Session 1
Moderator: Carina Coelho
- Velomobilities in learning processes. Making sense of cycling in a higher education institution, in a context of dominant automobility (pdf)
Authors: Vera Diogo, Carina Coelho & Inês Teixeira Institution: School of Higher Education, Polytechnic
Institute of Porto.
- Sustainable Mobility Urban Plans or Action Plans in Higher Education Institutions.
Author: Rita Ferreira
Institution: Information Management School, Nova
University of Lisbon.
- Routing and being routed: perspectives on learning the urban cycling landscapes (pdf)
Authors: Margerita Cisani & Davide Papotti (Online)
Institutions: University of Padova, University of Parma.
- Learning to cycle: the secret of the balance bike (pdf)
Authors: Cristiana Mercê, David Catela, Rita Cordovil, Marco Branco (Online)
Institution: Higher Education School of Sports of Rio
Maior, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém.
Education – Session 2
Moderator: Ana Pereira
- “The kids loved it” Ebikes as an opportunity to replace car trips among parents of school-aged children (pdf)
Authors: James Green et al.
Institution: Health Research Institute and School of Allied Health, University of Limerick.
- Learning to cycle. A pooled analysis of people from nine countries following a person-centered approach.
Authors: Isaac Estevan, Rita Cordovil et al
Institutions: University of Valencia; Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon.
- Learning to cycle: a cultural and generational approach
Authors: Rita Cordovill, Cristiana Mercê et al.
Institution: Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon.
- Lessons from TandEm: The Power of Empowering Women to Teach other Women Cycling (pdf)
Author: Daniela Abril Gutierrez (Online).
Institution: BYCS
Gender & Diversity
Moderator: Mireia Carbassé
- Commoning Cycling (pdf)
Authors: Clement Rames & Mireia Carbassé
Institution: aquí SCCL
- Empowering women to cycle in Ireland (pdf)
Authors: Ruth Van Ry & Kathleen Jacobi (Online).
Institution: Sustrans
- Effects of individual characteristics on risky cycling behaviour, mediated by cycling anger experience and expression among Brussels and Flemish adult cyclists (pdf)
Authors: Bas de Geus et al.
Institution: UC Louvain
- Learning to Cycle: Is the angular momentum of the bike wheels a control parameter of the child-bicycle without pedals system? (pdf)
Authors: Mafalda Bernardino & Marco Branco (Online).
Institution: Higher Education School of Sports of Rio aior, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém
Children – Session 1
Moderator: Vera Diogo
- This is not a children’s book (pdf)
Authors: Gabriela Araújo & Liliana Madureira (dynamic book presentation)
Institution: Bicicultura
- Learning to Cycle: Exploring Mass Proportion of Child-Bicycle Set for Front and Rear Wheels (pdf)
Authors: Mafalda Bernardino & Cristiana Mercê (Online).
Institution: Higher Education School of Sports of Rio Maior, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém
- The first steps: Radical children’s literature and new urban imaginaries (pdf)
Author: Peter Füssy, Freelancer
Ecology & Design
Moderator: Pedro Correia Rodrigues
- Road Rage and Revolutions: How insurgent cycling can save people and the planet.
Author: Damian Mcllroy (Online).
Institution: Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action, Queen’s University Belfast.
- Bikes and Biodiversity.
Author: Donna Cooney
Institutions: Dublin Cycling Campaign, Dublin City Council, BYCS.
- Cycling in the West of England: Nature, sustainability and wellbeing (pdf)
Author: Mel Cairns
Institution: Centre for Transport and Society,
University of the West of England.
- Probabilistic Modelling of Risks of Cycling Accidents (pdf)
A case study of Greater Manchester.
Authors: Arkadiusz Wisniowski, Diego A.P. Ruiz, Tigran
Sogomonian & Luis Ross Perez
Institution: The University of Manchester
Policy – Session 1
Moderator: Graeme Sherriff
- Do we need to talk about active travel? Tensions between, across and within walking and cycling in Greater Manchester (pdf)
Authors: Graeme Sherriff, Nicholas Davies, David Young
Institution: University of Salford.
- Modelling the impact of active travel infrastructure on traffic noise pollution in Scotland (pdf)
Author: Benjamin Afuye, Sean Fortune, Ruth Van Ry and Claire Forrester (Online).
Institution: Sustrans.
- An educational cycle ride addressing the air pollution along the hidden Molendinar Burn in Glasgow (pdf)
Author: Alexandra Michnowicz
Institution: European Policies Research Centre,
University of Strathclyde.
- Active Travel Facilities for the Aging Population (pdf)
Authors: Ruth Van Ry & Matt Pearce (Online).
Institution: Sustrans
Tuesday 10th September
Children – Session 2
Moderator: Jean Soares
- Awareness of Impact by Digital Education Tools !? – the Example of “Bike to School” (pdf)
Authors: Jana Kuehl & Moritz Michael (Online).
Institution: Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. - Municipal programs for cycling to school: the rise of top-down bikebuses in Portugal until 2023-24 (pdf)
Authors: Luís Vieira & Ricardo Sobral
Institution: Bicicultura
Culture – Session 1
Moderator: Peter Füssy
- Cyclists in the media: heroes or idiots? (pdf)
Author: Matej Praprotnik
Institution: BYCS - The grief cycle: Investigating the influence of cycling on grief outcomes in individuals who have experienced a bereavement (pdf)
Author: Harriet Wingfield (Online).
Institution: Sheffield Hallam University.
Policy – Session 2
Moderator: Eileen Hogan
- Generating evidence to increase the equity of schemes to access cycling: perspectives from the Irish context.
Authors: Louise Fouley, Yvonne Ryan, Abhilash Singh, James Green (Online).
Institution: Health Research Institute and School of Allied Health, University of Limerick
- Socio-Cycle as a case study: The role of community-engaged research in changing mobilities thinking (pdf)
Authors: Eileen Hogan & Beci Jeffers
Institution: University College Cork
- Linking cycling and transit as the only chance to reach sustainability in metropolitan mobility systems.
Author: Manuel Calvo (Online).
Institution: EstudioMC
- “… we can change how we live:” Transformation through transportation in a Starter Cycling City (pdf)
Authors: Eileen Hogan & Beci Jeffers.
Institution: University College Cork
Culture – Session 2
Moderator: Luís Vieira
- Analysis on commuting cycling practices among Portuguese with an immigration background in Switzerland (pdf)
Author: Andreia Dinis Pinto
Institution: University of Lausanne
- The public wants what the public gets: exploring a capabilities approach to identifying cycle design principles (pdf)
Author: Justin Spinney (Online)
Institution: University of the West of England
- Charcteristics of cycling cultures: A literature review (pdf)
Author: Ségolène Bauduin
Institution: UC Louvain
- Against Biciplanism (English Version and Portuguese Version).
Author: Jean Soares
Institution: Bicircular
Advocacy & Inclusion
Moderator: Cauê Martins Rios
- Sustainability transitions in practice: the role of social movements in shaping sustainable mobility councils’ policies in Brazil and Portugal (pdf)
Author: Cauê Martins Rios
Institution: University of Porto.
- Deconstructing mobility – experiences of citizen action for a more resilient city (pdf)
Authors: Abel Coentrão; Lurdes Adriano; Pedro Macedo; Sara Rocha
Institution: Centro do Clima & Biblioteca Municipal
Rocha Peixoto.
- Autistic Cyclists as joyous advocates (pdf)
Author: Will Tuladhar-Douglas (Onlin).
Institution: Situgyan Consulting Ltd.
- Interventions for cycling inclusion: cycling initiatives for an inclusive mobility transition in the EU (pdf)
Author: Dag Balkmar (Online).
Institution: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Orebro University.
History & Logistics
Moderator: M. Luísa Sousa
- Cycle repair and the future of repair education (pdf)
Authors: Angel York & April Wick (Online)
Institution: Bike! Bike! Everywhere!
- What have we learned from the Hi-BicLab research project – a history lab for sustainable urban (velo) mobilities in Lisbon? (pdf)
Author: M. Luísa Sousa
Institution: Nova University of Lisbon.
- Work by pedals: Urban transformation and cycling-based delivery workers in Stockholm, 1930-1960.
Author: Jens Alm & Alexander Paulsson
Institutions: The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Lund University.
- Urban policy networks as accelerators for sustainable transitions? Opportunities and barriers for cycle logistics advocates within local freight networks.
Author: Annika Otto
Institutions: The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute / Lund University