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In order to sum up the experience of bicycle transportation and mirror for its development in China, the paper compares its development history in the UK and the USA with that in several European countries, and mainly discusses the successful experience of the bicycle transportation in the European countries. The paper argues that understanding the unique contexts of Chinese cities is necessary for the success of the bicycle transportation, therefore some suggestions are given based on the analysis of the characteristics of the Chinese cities.
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This research has been supported by the Research Fund for Advanced Talents of Shandong Women’s University (Grant No. 2015RCYJ03), the Shandong Social Science Planning Project (18CGLJ48) and the Tianjin Social Science Planning Project (TJGL16-001Q).
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Wang, Zt., Zhao, T. (2019). International Development History and Experience of Bicycle Transportation and Its Inspiration. In: Wang, W., Bengler, K., Jiang, X. (eds) Green Intelligent Transportation Systems. GITSS 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 503. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0302-9_2
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