RESOURCES
Do you need some help to get started? Take a look at some of the resources that we’ve put together to help kick-start your journey!
Background, History and Evolution of Pedicabs and Cargo Cycles
INSPIRATION
Pedicabs Are The New Way To Get Around [Building SXSW]
Read Make: Magazine, “a bible for creators, tinkerers, and doers”
How I Made a Bicycle Rickshaw. KSKS
Human Powered Vehicles Prototypes
Policy and Advocacy
Planning: Bicycle and Pedestrian Friendly Land-Use Codes
Pedicabs for Urban Transportation in U.S. Cities: Benefits, Challenges, and Regulations
Infrastructure Policy, Planning And Design Digest
Sustainable Transport And Development
Fast Futures and Everyday Endurance: Mobility, Temporality, and Cycle-Rickshaws in Dhaka
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The Pedicab Drivers’ Daily Transgressions: Struggles for Provision and Care
MAKER SPACES:
Find or set up a local maker space tocollaborate and build prototypes:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
TRB Annual Meeting 2025 – January 5–9, 2025
Futures Bazaar: Exploring the future of sustainable urban mobility for liveable cities – 30 January 2025
Velo-City Conference – 10-13 June 2025
Transforming Transportation 2025 – March 11 – 12 2025
READING LIST:
Faiz, A. et al., Air Pollution from Motor Vehicles: Standards and Technologies for Controlling Emissions. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1996.
Greenpeace UK, The Environmental Impact of the Car. Greenpeace UK, (Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN, UK.) (Worldwide, a quarter of a million people die on the roads every year and ten million are injured, a scale equivalent to war. Motor vehicles are the single biggest source of atmospheric pollution.)
Physical Activity: An Agenda for Action, National Forum for Coronary Heart Disease Prevention London, 1995.
Cãmara, P. & Banister, D. “Spatial inequalities in the provision of public transport in Latin American cities.” Transport Reviews, 1993, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 351-373.
Ube, N., Nurse Ube Rides a Pedicab, Seattle: Ube Books, 2023.
Smith, J., & Williams, L., “Pedicabs for Urban Transportation in U.S. Cities: Benefits and Opportunities,” Transportation Research Record, 2022, Vol. 2676, No. 10, pp. 87-98.
Textor, R. B., From Peasant to Pedicab Driver: A Social Study of Northeastern Thai Farmers, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.