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One-day workshop—Transport Urban Planning Economics Laboratory (LAET), Lyon (France). February 11, 2020Becoming an urban cyclist for leisure, sports or commuting requires a variety of skills and a set of knowledge as there is the need to know how to: Pedal and move forward safely;Fit into the traffic, take place among other users;Get access to the dedicated infrastructure to cycling;Navigate in a known or unknown city/neighborhood (with or without a guiding device);Maintain and repair a bike;Find a space to park and secure a bicycle, etc.The literature has shown that the initial learning of biking and thecontinuous experiences &#160;increasinglyinfluence the skills of urban cyclists (Aldred 2013a) and build their identityas cyclists (Aldred 2013b). Moreover, the socialization of children andteenagers to cycling is influenced by their gender and social background(Sayagh 2018). These early studies seem to indicate that the education receivedat school and in the family, the peers and the geography of places matter forbecoming an urban cyclist. Indeed, although urban cycling is a common practicethat could be described as universal, substantial territorial variations(Horton, Rosen and Cox 2016) exist between countries, rural and urban areas,but also within a same country between cities, neighborhoods and from onestreet to another. The modal shares seems thus to depend on geography, public policies,gender, age and social class. Starting to ride a bike daily is the result of amultiplicity of events and socialization. As for the demotorization (Cacciari2018, Rau and Manton 2016), we hypothesize that the transition to a daily useof the bicycle is the outcome of a set of circumstances, competences andknowledge achieved through time. Understanding the conditions for acting out, carryingon or stopping the activity is crucial to comprehend the development of commutingand other forms of daily cycling. This one-day workshop focus on the acquisition of these skills andcompetences and will complement the existing works that link the practice tothe individual trajectories of cyclists (Freudendal-Pedersen 2015, Füssl andHaupt 2017) or to their gender (Song and other 2018, Vogel et al., 2014). The aim is to shade light ongeographical and sociological difference in order to better understand what islikely to facilitate or curb urban cycling practices. Propositions will cover the following three aspects:• From socialization to practices.How do people become a competent urban cyclist? How are those skills acquire?Who does pass them on? Are there devices used for the dissemination of theseskills? What are the turning points and continuities in the practices of urbancyclists?• Access and inequalities. Do all social groups have the same opportunities tobecome competent? How can social and gender differences be explained? Are theythe same everywhere and, in the case of gender, are they the same throughoutthe social scale?• Dynamics and changes. Which evidence does make people start cycling daily? Couldsome patterns be identified? What difference does it make to start learning howto ride as an adult?The expected proposals canpresent evidence from all over the world and various disciplinary andmethodological approaches are welcome.Rachel Aldred (University of Westminster) will be our keynote speaker,presenting her work on the skills and culture of cyclists and on genderinequalities in access to cycling. Workshop outcomes will be published in a collective book.Please submit your abstract (max. 500 words [excl. references]) by the 1stof November 2019 via e-mail to Matthieu Adam (matthieu.adam@entpe.fr) andNathalie Ortar (nathalie.ortar@entpe.fr). Applicants will be informed of theresults of the selection by November 15. Papers (max. 8,000 words) are expectedto be sent via e-mail by the 31st of January 2020.ReferencesAldred, R (2013a),Incompetent or Too Competent? Negotiating Everyday Cycling Identities in aMotor Dominated Society, Mobilities,vol. 8, n° 2, p. 252-27.Aldred, R. (2013b),Who are Londoners on Bikes and what do they want? Negotiating identity andissue definition in a ‘pop-up’ cycle campaign, Journal of Transport Geography, vol. 30, p. 194–201.Cacciari,J. (2018) Une enquête bibliographique sous le regard de la sociologie de lasocialisation. Mobilités spatiales, méthodologies de collecte, d’analyse et detraitement, MSFS2018, Nov 2018,Tours, France. hal-01943631Freudendal-Pedersen,M. (2015a), Whose Commons are Mobilities Spaces? The Case of Copenhagen’sCyclists, ACME, vol. 14, n°2, p. 598–621.Füssl, E., Haupt, J.(2017), Understanding cyclist identity and related interaction strategies. Anovel approach to traffic research, Transportation Research Part F, vol.46, part. B, p. 329–341.Horton, D., Rosen, P.,Cox, P. (2016), Cycling and Society,London, Routledge.Rau, H., Manton, R.(2016), Life events and mobility milestones: Advances in mobility biographytheory and research, Journal of TransportGeography, n°52, p. 51–60.Sayagh,D. (2018), Pourquoi les filles ont moinsde possibilités réelles de faire du vélo que les adolescents. Approchesociologique, Thèse, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.Song,L., Kirschen, M., Taylor, J. (2018), Women on wheels: Gender and cycling in Solo,Indonesia, Singapore Journal of TropicalGeography, online first,https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjtg.12257Vogel, M., et al. (2014), From bicycle sharing system movements tousers: a typology of Vélo’v cyclists in Lyon based on large-scale behaviouraldataset, Journal of Transport Geography,vol. 41, p. 280,291.