Bicycle Transportation

by John Forester

Book Overview

A professional engineer and avid avocational bicyclist, John Forester combined these interests in founding the discipline of cycling transportation engineering. This book presents the basic principles of the field, buttressing the author's arguments in an earlier, privately printed edition with new insights and updated information. In this book, Forester contends that when motorists and cyclists obey existing traffic laws and regulations, and when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026206085X
• ISBN13: 9780262060851
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 407 Pages

Customer Reviews

Review of Bicycle Transportation

Bicycle Transportation is Forester's book for transportation professionals. Unfortunately, the author is NOT an effective advocate. His harsh, confrontational style is off-putting to say the least. This is a pity because Forester has much to teach.The book will be a valuable resource for cycling advocates and for those few professionals who can overlook the shower of insults that accompanies the words of a real expert in the field.If only the warts were removed ---