The details of the Cycle Nation Project (CNP) – led by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with British Cycling and HSBC UK – demonstrates a successful workplace-based intervention to increase bike use among office staff, with workers cycling three times more per week on average.
The project – led by Professor Jason Gill and Professor Cindy Gray from the University of Glasgow – explored the barriers to cycling to work in a survey of UK adults.
The project follows Professor Jason Gill’s 2017 BMJ study of over 263,000 workers, which found that cycling to work was associated with a more than 40% lower risk of developing heart disease and cancer.
The resultant pilot intervention for the Cycle Nation Project involved participants receiving a loan bike for 12 weeks (or their own bike serviced), and a nine-week cycle training course, which included interactive information sharing activities, behaviour change techniques, bike maintenance training, practical off-road cycling skill games and on-road group rides.
