Whether or not an individual chooses to bicycle depends on circumstances such as the quality of bicycle infrastructure and characteristics of the surrounding environment, as well as their own comfort with and preferences for bicycling. People around the world have adopted or rejected bicycling based on factors such as how much they like bicycling, how stressful they find car traffic, who else in the community bicycles, and their need to transport children or carry groceries. In these papers, researchers explore how and why people bicycle in Davis and beyond as they analyze the circumstances that influence bicycling behavior.

- Why do people like bicycling? Modeling affect toward bicycling
Yan Xing, Jamey Volker, and Susan Handy (2018)
- The Relationship between Experienced and Imagined Bicycling Comfort and Safety
Dillon Fitch and Susan Handy (2018)
- The relation of the road environment and bicycling attitudes to usual travel mode to school in teenagers
Dillon Fitch, Mijke Rhemtulla, and Susan Handy (2018)
- Effects of Building a Stock of Bicycling Experience in Youth
Calvin Thigpen and Susan Handy (2018)
- The Road Environment and Urban Bicycling: Psychophysiological and Behavioral Responses
Dillon Fitch (2018)
- Results of the 2017-2018 UC Davis Campus Travel Survey
Albee Wei (2018)
- Commute quality and its implications for commute satisfaction: Exploring the role of mode, location, and other factors
Susan Handy and Calvin Thigpen (2018)
- The Road Environment and Bicyclists’ Psychophysiological Stress
Dillon Fitch, James Sharpnack, and Susan Handy (2017)