ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a grand tour of where the research stands on cycling mobility, but also how these research findings can be used in policy to implement new cycling infrastructure and programmes that are in tune with the needs of the cycling population while promoting sustainable mobility. Policy changes and reversals do happen in real life which has been cancelled and is considered illegal. Policy scholars have often looked at ways to explain drastic policy changes or reversals. The various examples of cycling societies and policies, implementations and instruments might be put to profit in order to take advantage of the window of opportunity created by the pandemic for policy change in favour of the bicycle as a mode of transport. Policies have a tendency to remain in place once established because they make new advocates of their new users.
