Breaking into bicycle theft: Insights from Montreal, Canada

Dea van Lierop, Michael Grimsrud, Ahmed El-Geneidy*

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Abstract

Currently, bicycle theft often goes unnoticed and is largely unchallenged, negatively impacting the use of this sustainable transportation mode. The present research brings attention to this issue by analyzing the multifaceted problem of bicycle theft in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A bilingual online bicycle theft survey was designed for this purpose and answered by 2,039 Greater Montreal residents, yielding 1,922 usable responses. This paper tries to understand bicycle theft by answering the questions who, what, where, how, and when. Findings from this study are useful to better understand and ultimately decrease bicycle theft in Montreal, but can also be beneficial for cyclists, police, and policy makers in other cities aiming to decrease bicycle theft.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)490-501
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Sustainable Transportation
Volume9
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Oct 2015
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The authors would like to thank the Montreal cycling community for their support in distributing and filling out the Montreal Bicycle Theft Survey. The authors would also like to thank the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for their financial support. Thanks to Devon Willis for her help with translation and the data-cleaning process. Thanks to Mr. Daniel Bergeron from the Agence Metropolitaine de Transport (AMT) for providing the O-D survey data used in part of the study. A special thank-you also goes out to all of the researchers at Transportation Research at McGill and le comité sur le vol de vélo for their constant support. Last but not least we would like to thank the four anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback during the review process.

Keywords

  • Bicycle parking
  • Cycling
  • Cycling facilities
  • Logit
  • Montreal
  • Theft
  • Victimization

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