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SUBMITTER: Kraus S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8053938 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kraus Sebastian S Koch Nicolas N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20210401 15
The bicycle is a low-cost means of transport linked to low risk of transmission of infectious disease. During the COVID-19 crisis, governments have therefore incentivized cycling by provisionally redistributing street space. We evaluate the impact of this new bicycle infrastructure on cycling traffic using a generalized difference in differences design. We scrape daily bicycle counts from 736 bicycle counters in 106 European cities. We combine these with data on announced and completed pop-up bi ...[more]