Ipsos: Individuals Cycle Most The place They Really feel It’s Secure

Survey finds international consensus on bicycles’ key position to cut back carbon emissions and site visitors and widespread help for giving them precedence in new infrastructure initiatives

A brand new Ipsos survey finds that the majority adults throughout 28 international locations take into account biking performs an necessary position within the discount of carbon emissions (on common, 86% achieve this) and within the discount of site visitors (80%). Nevertheless, half (52%) say biking of their space is just too harmful. The prevalence of biking to run errands or to commute is highest in international locations the place it’s most generally perceived as a secure mode of transportation reminiscent of China, Japan, and the Netherlands. In most international locations surveyed, a stable majority of residents are in favor of giving bicycles precedence over vehicles in new infrastructure initiatives.

Globally, fewer adults report usually utilizing a bicycle for a 2-kilometer/1-mile journey of their neighborhood (14% on common) than strolling (37%) or driving (25%). Nevertheless, biking is the commonest mode of transportation for brief native journeys within the Netherlands (45%) and China (33%) and can be extensively utilized in Japan (27%), India (21%), Germany (21%), and Belgium (20%).

As many as 30% of adults within the Netherlands, 22% in China and India, and 20% in Sweden report driving a bicycle to get to their place of job or training. In distinction, solely 4% in Canada, and 5% in South Africa, the US, and Nice Britain achieve this.

On common globally, twice as many say they trip a bicycle for train (28%) than for commuting (12%). Biking for train is most generally practiced in Poland the place 61% report doing it.

Throughout the 28 international locations, nearly two-thirds (63%) of adults say they know the right way to trip a bicycle and 42% report proudly owning one. The Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden present the very best ranges of bicycle possession. Utilization of public bicycle-sharing methods averages at 8% per nation, however it’s a lot larger in China (38%), India (19%), South Korea (15%), and Turkey (15%).

The proportion of cyclists doesn’t differ drastically amongst main demographic teams. The prevalence of weekly cyclists is just barely larger amongst those that are male, youthful, city, extra prosperous, and extremely educated than it’s amongst those that are usually not. Nevertheless, one group stands out: enterprise decisionmakers. On common, 55% of them trip a motorbike at the least as soon as per week vs. 35% of all adults.

These are among the findings of a survey of 20,057 adults below the age of 75 carried out between March 25 and April 8, 2022 on Ipsos’s World Advisor on-line survey platform.

Biking as a Answer

Massive majorities in all international locations agree that biking performs an necessary position within the discount of carbon emissions (from a excessive of 94% in Peru and China to a low of 77% in Germany) and the discount of site visitors (from 94% in Peru to 62% within the U.S.).

Moreover, biking enjoys the next stage of favorability than do all different types of transportation – a world common of 82% view bicycles favorably vs. 74% for vehicles, 73% for e-bikes, 59% for bikes or mopeds, 53% for standup scooters and 43% for vehicles.

Nations the place bicycles are most favored over automobiles are Turkey, the Netherlands, Hungary, Chile, Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, and Peru (all by 15 proportion factors or extra). Solely 4 of the 28 international locations present a considerably larger stage of favorability for vehicles than for bicycles: Australia, the U.S., Nice Britain, and Canada.

Bicycles are seen favorably in all international locations (from 93% in Poland to 64% in Nice Britain) as are ebikes (from 84% in India to 57% in Nice Britain). In distinction, different varieties of autos are usually not seen as kindly in some international locations: standup scooters are seen favorably by solely 17% in Japan (vs. 79% in India), bikes and mopeds by solely 23% in South Korea (vs. 85% in India and 79% in Malaysia), and vehicles by 24% in Turkey and 28% in China (vs. 70% within the U.S.).

Prioritizing bicycles On this context, twice as many agree as disagree (64% vs. 36%, on common per nation) that new street and site visitors infrastructure initiatives of their space ought to prioritize bicycles over vehicles.

Help is larger than common in all rising international locations surveyed. The one international locations the place fewer than 50% agree are Canada, the U.S., Australia, Japan, and Nice Britain whereas opinions are evenly break up in Belgium and Norway. Help for prioritizing bicycles in infrastructure prevails the place giant majorities agree that “biking from one place to a different in my space is just too harmful”, together with all international locations surveyed throughout Latin America and Southern Europe in addition to Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.

In regards to the Examine

These are the findings of a 28-country Ipsos survey carried out March 25 – April 8, 2022, amongst 20,057 adults aged 16-99 in Norway, 18-74 in the US, Canada, Malaysia, South Africa, and Turkey, and 16-74 in 22 different international locations, through Ipsos’s World Advisor on-line survey platform.

Every nation’s pattern consists of ca. 1,000 people in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland), France, Germany, Nice Britain, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the US, and ca. 500 people in Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, and Turkey.

The samples in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Nice Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the US will be taken as consultant of those international locations’ normal grownup inhabitants below the age of 75.

The samples in Brazil, Chile, China (mainland), Colombia, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey are extra city, extra educated, and/or extra prosperous than the overall inhabitants. The survey outcomes for these markets ought to be seen as reflecting the views of the extra “linked” section of their inhabitants.

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