{"id":186928329,"date":"2010-12-04T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186928329"},"modified":"2010-12-04T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T12:32:09","slug":"cyclists-faster-than-cars-during-rush-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186928329","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists Faster Than Cars During Rush Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nThey looked at 11.6 million bicycle trips in Lyon between May 2005 and December 2007. The result is the first robust characterisation of urban bikers&#8217; behaviour, they say.<br \/>\nSome of what they found is unsurprising. Over an average trip, cyclists travel 2.49 km in 14.7 minutes so their average speed is about 10 km\/h. That compares well with the average car speed in inner cities across Europe.<br \/>\nDuring the rush hour, however, the average speed rises to almost 15 km\/h, a speed which outstrips the average car speed. And that&#8217;s not including the time it takes to find a place to park which is much easier for a Velo&#8217;v bike than a car.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/26092\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/26092\/<\/a>oldId.20101204123209988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; They looked at 11.6 million bicycle trips in Lyon between May 2005 and December 2007. The result is the first robust characterisation of urban bikers&#8217; behaviour, they say. Some of what they found is unsurprising. Over an average trip, cyclists travel 2.49 km in 14.7 minutes so their average speed is about 10 km\/h. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186928329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cyclists Faster Than Cars During Rush Hour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186928329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186928329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186928329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186928329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186928329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186928329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186928329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}