Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank

The Cycling Think & Do Tank is a multidisciplinary, multi-sector research project focused on increasing cycling as a primary transportation choice. Funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development grant, we are:
  • mapping cycling patterns
  • exploring the economic benefits of cycling for transportation
  • bringing together literature from both environmental psychology and active transportation 
  • and developing an integrated suite of tools for increasing cycle use in daily transport

With this initiative, Principal Investigator Beth Savan has built a coalition of expert practitioners and academics to address an important gap in knowledge about building more sustainable cities: how experience from the behavioural change field (applied extensively to building occupants) can be transferred to the field of active transportation.

Public Policy and Governance Review

Interview with Beth Savan
The project is hosted by the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, Partners on the project include the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation, Fourth Floor, 8-80 Cities, Spacing Magazine, BikeChain, dandyhorse, Evergreen and the Cities Centre at the University of Toronto.

A recent video about bike lanes on Bloor Street in Toronto featured Beth Savan. See link below.