A report from the University of Vermont Transportation Research Center presents research assessing the relationship between bicycling, sustainable transportation, and quality of life. The study looks at variety of objective and subjective quality of life indicators and approaches for bicycle transportation using a mixed methods approach.
Two overarching questions drove this study:
- What relevance does the quality of life concept have for understanding the motivation, practice, perceptions, and experience of transportation cycling?
- What attributes of bicycle transportation enhance or detract from subjective perceptions and objective measures of quality of life, and how might those be studied?