Affects on Economy Benefits of Bike Sharing The positive effects of bike sharing is mostly focused on environmental sustainability and the health benefits that are experienced by the users. As the main aim of this bike sharing system it is able to help in “greening” the city, ideally with more bikes it will lower the purchase rate of cars, leading to the reduction of greenhouse gases and helping out with goal warning and improvements in the air quality of high population cities. Bike sharing reduces the dependency on fossil fuels, carbon emissions and other harmful pollutants. Walking and biking does not produce any carbon emissions, when the metro, public bus and private cars produce more than 0.2 pounds of carbon emissions. Daily biking also provides private health benefits for the users to help them become more active and healthier. The increase in the use of bikes helps to reduce the expenditure on healthcare, World health Organization(WHO) has reported on the fact that inactivity, and the health issues related to it, creates a significant cost to developed countries. The addition of this physical activity can become a benefit on the economy by helping the users provide sayings on healthcare. Even for a short time of the day, when people get some active input it can help lead to a healthier …show more content…
Cycling is a exercise that requires a lot of oxygen for the physiological balance between the energy used, therefore it is able to strength the heart, prevent high blood pressure. This exercise is known to be more effective then medication, because during the process of cycling it compress the blood vessels, speeding up the bloodstream, increasing the amount of oxygen in the brain, The inhaling of fresh air is able to make our brains more clear in making decision and feel a since of freedom in
Society loves to join in on and enjoy all the new trends that arise, even if they may be flawed, expensive, or even silly. People just desire to fit into society and be like everyone else. We’ve grown up hearing “don’t do something just because everyone else is”, but the reality is that we can’t help it, it’s just how humans naturally flow. The latest trend that’s happening is the bike-share program, which allows folks to check out a bike at one service station and return in to another. Bike-share programs are quickly growing around the world and the latest city to adopt this new trend is Los Angeles, California. Justin Clark expresses very strong opinions about this new and environment friendly program and what L.A isn’t doing right. He tells
Pollution is a major problem for all of us. People need to recognize this situation so we can start making a difference to this problem. In order to start making a difference, the federal government should increase gasoline tax by one dollar a gallon. Fifty percent of this dollar will go towards public transportation, since passenger cars and trucks are a major contribution towards air pollution, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A (10/4, http://www.epa.gov/autoemissions/emsns.html). Due to the expected increase after this is put forth, the remaining fifty percent of the dollar will go towards safety on these transits. When public transportation increases, air pollution will decrease, which will lessen the harmful health risks towards the environment.
Like other forms of exercise, bicycling can help with weight problems. It lowers cholesterol and the heart rate. It is a mood enhancer, as well, proving it's physical and mental benefits.
Therefore we conclude on this note that ecological models are applicable and effective with changing health behaviors for an individual in the daily life, such as eating behaviors, exercising behaviors, influential environmental factors. There are multiple examples that support the idea of the structural changes influencing the environment and the outcome is great influence on the development of the chronic disease. The process of behavior change depends on the personal (physical activity, diet, and substance of use and abuse), supportive (means to provide healthy diet and physical exercise), structural (parks, gyms and walkways) and public policies (restriction on smoking in public areas). The key is to identify the controls and focus on the outcomes by managing the changes in the health behaviors.
... fascination with distance, speed and time is categorically evident in the way that our cities are run. Dominated by machines that create both environmental and health issues. This review has attempted to outline the health benefits of cycling and critique them through scientific evidence. The evidence that Tranter, Bannister, Racioppi, Tight and Lindsay attempt to illustrate, is essentially a shift from a sedentary lifestyle to a more active one. Plato was perhaps well ahead of his time in stating that the "lack of activity [in society] destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it” (Plato, 427-347 BCE). This encompasses and summarises all the physical and mental impacts cycling plays on the body and this review demonstrates how easy it is to change this epidemic of obesity through cycling.
Amy Westervelt’s article “Bike Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business” explains bike sharing programs that you could rent a bike for a day, take it anywhere you wanted, but return it to any bike station. Paris has started a bike-sharing business in 2007, they had cool bikes, reasonable prices, and good placement of the bike stations. The bike program has 50 million rides annually. In the United States launched a bike- sharing program in 2008 in Denver which lead to other cities launching programs in 2010. Washington D.C. created a new problem, they had too many riders and not enough bikes. Portland, San Francisco, and Chicago are planning on releasing a bike-sharing program. Over time the bikes got cooler and
With the model of government guidance and enterprise operations, the bicycle rental systems will successfully operating in Vancouver for a long time in near future. This report analyses and proves the new business ideal. The rental system will benefit people in Vancouver from relieving pressures of Trans link and carbon emissions.
Economic benefits for local and national economy as well as some less tangible benefits play a major role when investments are made on bicycle, pedestrian, and open space facilities. Some of the economic benefits from such infrastructures come from increased retail sales, conservation and creation of jobs, reduced health care costs, and real estate appreciation. The facilities discussed also ease road traffic and lead to a better preservation of roads. Investing in these facilities also improves the air quality, preserves carbon-based energy, and aids in creating more active communities. I will review five articles that will quantify each benefit and translate them into economic value.
Riding a bicycle exercises the whole body while taking you around town. Along with increasing heart rate, biking is less stressful, easy on the joints, and tones
There exists various lifestyles and behaviours, ranging from amount of nutrition intake, mental well-being, to the amount of physical activity engaged individually. Weighing the abundance of factors, this essay primarily aims to focus on the aspect of physical activity in relevance to how it possibly affects one's lifestyle. By cross-referencing to other lifestyles and behaviours, this essay will also demonstrate the importance of physical activity in possibly alleviating the issues raised pertaining to other lifestyles as well. Throughout this essay, there will be frequent references to the socio-ecological framework in examining the aforementioned factors.
There is an abundant amount of existing literature that proposes that females are less likely than males to cycle for transport in countries with low bicycle transport mode share, such as The United States. I will investigate the relationship between gender and bicycling behaviour, and whether female commuter cyclists are more likely to use certain types of bicycle infrastructure over others. Relative to utilitarian bicycling, the study of gender issues in planning leads to the success of social inclusion as well as economic regeneration, and bicycling as a form of active transportation is important due to its individual, social, economic, and environmental benefits. (Garrard, Crawford & Hakman, 2006) These include health benefits, traffic congestion reduction, social inclusion, and job generation. (Garrard, et al, 2006) Therefore this research seeks to answer the question: is there a divide between preferences in bicycle infrastructure between male and female cyclists in cities with low bicycle transport mode share such as Toronto?
Both of the two auto vehicles are brought into the human industry as the use of benefit students’ lives become more convenient traveler. In commons, the two automobile created opportunities jobs in the economic companies’ nation. Plus, several students did not noticed that both cars and public transportation have one major similar concept where two of the transit vehicle produce environmental pollution, traffic congestion, and oil consumption problems. Encounter, the public transportation and cars can cause a huge impact to the environmental which it can lead human health problems. Mostly, both of the automobile still release noxious gases into the air, and over time the built up can change the environment global warming to like an unhealthy
...cycling certainly is a necessity, but with humanity’s busy lifestyles they will continue to be driven by the choice of convenience, rather than responsibility. By making recycling mandatory, governments, businesses, and consumers would be forced to create more efficient methods and programs to ensure compliance with the new law; as a result, the decrease of municipal, industrial, and commercial waste, litter, pollution, and energy consumption; the reduction of mining, transporting, and conversion of raw materials into goods; the limiting of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions; and the conservation of natural resources would stimulate the economy with new jobs, increased savings, and higher profit margins for consumers and commercial, industrial, and agricultural business. Recycling laws would achieve nothing less, than delivering humanity into a new Golden Age.
only thing that can be improved by the use of bicycles. There are several major
In this modern era, the level of pollution worldwide has been increasing consistently which in turn has brought harm to humans via many different ways. Consequently, the government must find a solution to solve this problem as speedily as possible. However, banning the ownership of private vehicles is not the only and definitely not the best way to decrease pollution. Although carbon emissions from vehicles do contribute towards a significant amount of pollution, banning the ownership of private vehicles in modern day society is unnecessary because pollution can also be caused by many other factors such as bad lifestyle choices on humanity’s part, lack of stricter or enforcement of environmental laws by governments as well as the fact that vehicles are an essential part of modern city life.