Cycling, Safety & Health by Thomas Krag
It’s a pleasure for Copenhagenize to publish an article by one of Denmark’s great thinkers regarding bicycle culture. Thomas Krag has a Masters degree in Chemistry but for many years he has been closely involved with Danish and international bicycle culture. He was the head of the Danish Cyclists’ Federation [DCF] from 1986-2000 and he now runs his own consultancy Thomas Krag Mobility Advice.
Thomas’ Cycling, Safety and Health article discusses risk perception and how we (often wrongly) measure risk and goes on to highlight how safe cycling is as well as showing the health benefits of having high numbers of bicycle users/Citizen Cyclists in a city or country.
Thomas’ work has been a great inspiration to me over the past four years. He has been a bit off the bicycle radar for a time, but his rationality and academic approach is much needed in Denmark and internationally.
Thomas Krag has tremendous knowledge and experience in all aspects of bicycle culture and statistics. We’ve been planning on publishing this article of his about Cycling, safety and health for a while and today we got it done. It’s long but worth the read. The .pdf of this article is available from the European Cyclists’ Federation’s website right here.
Here comes the blog version. Click on the graphs for larger versions.
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