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Adult beginner cyclists in French cities. Characterizing their profiles and their bike-use persistence with a two-wave panel survey

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International audience; This paper focuses on the question of adult beginner cyclists (ABCs) in French cities. In other words, the profile identified and described here concerns people cycling for utility purposes on a rather regular basis but with low cycling skills. With the help of an analysis based on two waves of a panel-survey (2018 and 2019, n=1 113) ABCs are estimated between 1,8% to 3% of French urban population, or in absolute terms between 600 000 and a million cyclists. A second key result shows that almost two ABCs out of three (65%) abandon cycling during the year, which makes it a very vulnerable category of cyclists. These figures could make ABCs a subject of great interest for mobility policies and cycling associations, and opens new tracks for research on transitions to utility cycling.