Publications

  • Pearson L, Bhowmick D, Winters M, Saberi M, Nelson T, Pettit C, Nice K, Dai D, Gupta M, Beck B. Gender differences in bicycle infrastructure use and preferences: A disconnect between ideals and reality. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. 2025 Dec 22:1-2. doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5108271
  • Lilasathapornkit T, Bhowmick D, Beck B, Wu H, Pettit C, Nice K, Seneviratne S, Gupta M, Vu HL, Nelson T, Saberi M. Cycling route choice preferences: A taste heterogeneity and exogenous segmentation analysis based on age, gender, Geller typology, and e-bike use. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2025 Nov 1;201:104679. doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2025.104679
  • Pearson L, Page MJ, Gerhard R, Clarke N, Winters M, Bauman A, Arogundade L, Beck B. Effectiveness of interventions for modal shift to walking and bike riding: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Transport Reviews. 2025 Jul 4;45(4):482-513. doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2025.2480292
  • Pearson L, Oakey M, Nelson B, Karbakhsh M, Karmali S, Beck B. Cross-country policy comparison of 30 km/h speed limits. Cities & Health. 2025 Jan 4:1-2. doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4856919
  • Nosratzadeh H, Bhowmick D, Ríos Carmona AB, Thompson J, Thai T, Pearson L, Beck B. A scoping review of the design and characteristics of e-bike financial incentives. Transport Reviews. 2025 Jan 2;45(1):149-71. doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2024.2419884
  • Nosratzadeh H, Bhowmick D, Carmona AB, Pearson L, Thompson J, Thai T, Beck B. Implementing without evaluating: The missing link in understanding the effectiveness of financial incentive programs for e-bikes. Cities. 2025 Jan 1;156:105528. doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105528
  • Gupta, M., Bhowmick, D., Saberi, M., Pan, S., & Beck, B. (2025). Evaluating the effects of data sparsity on the link-level bicycling volume estimation: A graph convolutional neural network approach. Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research, 100086. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmr.2025.100086
  • Lim, T., Pearson, L., Thompson, J., Odgers, J. C., & Beck, B. (2025). Establishing normative scores of affect, safety, and comfort for bicycling infrastructure and traffic conditions. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 114, 337-353. doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2025.06.006
  • Gerhard, R., Gabbe, B. J., Cameron, P., Newstead, S., Morrison, C. N., Clarke, N., & Beck, B. (2025). A scoping review on the methods used to assess health-related quality of life and disability burden in evaluations of road safety interventions. Journal of Safety Research, 92, 459-472. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2024.11.028
  • Gupta, M., Bhowmick, D., Newbury, R., Saberi, M., Pan, S., & Beck, B. (2025). INSPIRE-GNN: Intelligent Sensor Placement to Improve Sparse Bicycling Network Prediction via Reinforcement Learning Boosted Graph Neural Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00141. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.00141
  • Gupta, M., Bhowmick, D., & Beck, B. (2025). BikeVAE-GNN: A Variational Autoencoder-Augmented Hybrid Graph Neural Network for Sparse Bicycle Volume Estimation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19517. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.19517
  • Li, M., Beck, B., Rathnayake, T., Meng, L., Chen, Z., Cosgun, A., ... & Kulić, D. (2025). A benchmark for cycling close pass detection from video streams. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 174, 105112. doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2025.105112
  • Turner, S., Pouliou, T., Fry, R., Walker, I., Beck, B., Thwaites, O., & Lyons, R. A. (2025). Safeguarding children on Welsh roads: the 20 mph policy and the road ahead. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 9(1), e003274. doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2024-003274
  • Nosratzadeh, H., Bhowmick, D., Ríos Carmona, A., Thompson, J., Thai, T., Pearson, L., & Beck, B. (2024). A scoping review of the design and characteristics of e-bike financial incentives. Transport Reviews, 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2024.2419884
  • Backman, K., Beck, B., & Kulić, D. (2024). Classifying bicycle infrastructure using on-bike street-level images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19194. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.19194
  • Bhowmick, D., Dai, D., Saberi, M., Nelson, T., Stevenson, M., Seneviratne, S., Nice, K., Pettit, C., Vu, H., & Beck, B. (2025). Collecting population-representative bike-riding GPS data to understand bike-riding activity and patterns using smartphones and Bluetooth beacons. Travel Behaviour and Society, 38, 100919. doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100919
  • Nosratzadeh, H., Bhowmick, D., Carmona, A., Pearson, L., Thompson, J., Thai, T., & Beck, B. (2025). Implementing without evaluating: The missing link in understanding the effectiveness of financial incentive programs for e-bikes. Cities, 156, 105528. doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105528
  • Pearson, L., Page, M., Gerhard, R., Clarke, N., Winters, M., Bauman, A., Arogundade, L., & Beck, B. (2024). Effectiveness of interventions for modal shift to walking and bike riding: A systematic review with meta-analysis. medRxiv, 2024–07. doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2025.2480292
  • Pouliou, T., Pedrick-Case, R., Bailey, R., Rawlings, A., Mizen, A., Davies, J., Stratton, G., Lyons, R., Beck, B., Christian, H., & others. (2024). Neighbourhood walkability and body mass index in children: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study in Wales. Journal of Transport & Health, 38, 101855. doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101855
  • Lim, T., Thompson, J., Pearson, L., Odgers, J., & Beck, B. (2024). Effects of within-trip subjective experiences on travel satisfaction and travel mode choice: A conceptual framework. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 104, 201–216. doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2024.05.024
  • Shah, S., Chen, Y., Owen, A., Woods, R., Ryan, J., Owen, N., Wolfe, R., Dunstan, D., Beck, B., Britt, C., & others. (2024). Walking for transport and all-cause mortality: A prospective cohort study of Australian community-dwelling older adults. BMJ Public Health, 2(1). doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000709
  • Winters, M., Fuller, D., Cloutier, M. S., Harris, M., Howard, A., Kestens, Y., Kirk, S., Macpherson, A., Moore, S., Rothman, L., & others. (2024). Building CapaCITY/É for sustainable transportation: Protocol for an implementation science research program in healthy cities. BMJ Open, 14(4), e085850. doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085850
  • Robinson, T., Boruff, B., Duncan, J., Murray, K., Schipperijn, J., Nathan, A., Beck, B., Stratton, G., Griffiths, L., Fry, R., & others. (2024). Understanding variations in the built environment over time to inform longitudinal studies of young children's physical activity behaviour: The BEACHES project. Health & Place, 90, 103345. doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103345
  • Pearson, L., Reeder, S., Gabbe, B., & Beck, B. (2024). Designing for the Interested but Concerned: A qualitative study of the needs of potential bike riders. Journal of Transport & Health, 35, 101770. doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101770
  • Henry, A., Fried, L., Nathan, A., Dhamrait, G., Boruff, B., Schipperijn, J., Cross, D., Beck, B., Trapp, G., & Christian, H. (2024). The built environment and child obesity: A review of Australian policies. Obesity Reviews, 25(1), e13650. doi.org/10.1111/obr.13650
  • Lim, T., Thompson, J., Tian, L., & Beck, B. (2023). A transactional model of stress and coping applied to cyclist subjective experiences. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 96, 155–170. doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.05.013
  • Pearson, L., Reeder, S., Gabbe, B., & Beck, B. (2023). What a girl wants: A mixed-methods study of gender differences in the barriers to and enablers of riding a bike in Australia. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 94, 453–465. doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.03.010
  • Tracy, L., Gabbe, B., & Beck, B. (2023). Friction burns in cyclists: An under-recognised problem. Injury, 54(4), 1119–1124. 10.1016/j.injury.2023.02.029
  • Pearson, L., Gabbe, B., Reeder, S., & Beck, B. (2023). Barriers and enablers of bike riding for transport and recreational purposes in Australia. Journal of Transport & Health, 28, 101538. 10.1016/j.jth.2022.101538
  • Bhowmick, D., Saberi, M., Stevenson, M., Thompson, J., Winters, M., Nelson, T., Leao, S., Seneviratne, S., Pettit, C., Vu, H., & others. (2023). A systematic scoping review of methods for estimating link-level bicycling volumes. Transport Reviews, 43(4), 622–651.
  • Lim, T., Kalra, A., Thompson, J., Odgers, J., & Beck, B. (2022). Physiological measures of bicyclists’ subjective experiences: A scoping review. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 90, 365–381. doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.09.007
  • Kalra, A., Lim, T., Pearson, L., & Beck, B. (2023). Methods used to capture subjective user experiences in adults while riding bicycles: A scoping review. Transport Reviews, 43(3), 453–477. doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2022.2123064
  • Pearson, L., Berkovic, D., Reeder, S., Gabbe, B., & Beck, B. (2023). Adults’ self-reported barriers and enablers to riding a bike for transport: A systematic review. Transport Reviews, 43(3), 356–384. 10.1101/2022.04.22.22274159
  • Beck, B., Thorpe, A., Timperio, A., Giles-Corti, B., William, C., De Leeuw, E., Christian, H., Corben, K., Stevenson, M., Backhouse, M., & others. (2022). Active transport research priorities for Australia. Journal of Transport & Health, 24, 101288. doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101288
  • Beck, B., Winters, M., Nelson, T., Pettit, C., Leao, S., Saberi, M., Thompson, J., Seneviratne, S., Nice, K., & Stevenson, M. (2023). Developing urban biking typologies: Quantifying the complex interactions of bicycle ridership, bicycle network, and built environment characteristics. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50(1), 7–23. doi.org/10.1177/23998083221100827
  • Beck, B., Pettit, C., Winters, M., Nelson, T., Vu, H., Nice, K., Seneviratne, S., & Saberi, M. (2024). Association between network characteristics and bicycle ridership across a large metropolitan region. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 18(4), 344–355.
  • Beck, B., Perkins, M., Olivier, J., Chong, D., & Johnson, M. (2021). Subjective experiences of bicyclists being passed by motor vehicles: The relationship to motor vehicle passing distance. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 155, 106102. 10.1016/j.aap.2021.106102
  • Boufous, S., Beck, B., Macniven, R., Pettit, C., & Ivers, R. (2021). Facilitators and barriers to cycling in older residents of New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Transport & Health, 21, 101056. doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101056
  • Pearson, L., Dipnall, J., Gabbe, B., Braaf, S., White, S., Backhouse, M., & Beck, B. (2022). The potential for bike riding across entire cities: Quantifying spatial variation in interest in bike riding. Journal of Transport & Health, 24, 101290.
  • Perkins, M., Casalaz, S., Mitra, B., Gabbe, B., Brown, J., Oxley, J., Cameron, P., & Beck, B. (2021). Identify the key characteristics of pedestrian collisions through in-depth interviews: A pilot study. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 28(2), 135–140. 10.1080/17457300.2021.1876736
  • Olivier, J., Esmaeilikia, M., Johnson, M., Beck, B., & Grzebieta, R. (2020). Does the Australian Bureau of Statistics Method of Travel to Work data accurately estimate commuter cycling in Australia? Journal of Road Safety, 31(2), 48–54.
  • Devlin, A., Beck, B., Simpson, P., Ekegren, C., Giummarra, M., Edwards, E., Cameron, P., Liew, S., Oppy, A., Richardson, M., & others. (2019). The road to recovery for vulnerable road users hospitalised for orthopaedic injury following an on-road crash. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 132, 105279. 10.1016/j.aap.2019.105279
  • Beck, B., Chong, D., Olivier, J., Perkins, M., Tsay, A., Rushford, A., Li, L., Cameron, P., Fry, R., & Johnson, M. (2019). How much space do drivers provide when passing cyclists? Understanding the impact of motor vehicle and infrastructure characteristics on passing distance. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 128, 253–260. 10.1016/j.aap.2019.03.007
  • Beck, B., Stevenson, M., Cameron, P., Oxley, J., Newstead, S., Olivier, J., Boufous, S., & Gabbe, B. J. (2019). Crash characteristics of on-road single-bicycle crashes: An under-recognised problem. Injury Prevention, 25(5), 448–452. 10.1136/injuryprev-2018-043014
  • Morrison, C. N., Thompson, J., Kondo, M. C., & Beck, B. (2019). On-road bicycle lane types, roadway characteristics, and risks for bicycle crashes. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 123, 123–131. 10.1016/j.aap.2018.11.017
  • Beck, B., Cameron, P., Fitzgerald, M., Judson, R., Teague, W., Lyons, R., & Gabbe, B. (2017). Road safety: Serious injuries remain a major unsolved problem. Medical Journal of Australia, 207(6), 244–249. 10.5694/mja17.00015
  • Beck, B., Ekegren, C., Cameron, P., Edwards, E., Bucknill, A., Judson, R., Page, R., Hau, R., Stevenson, M., & Gabbe, B. (2017). Predictors of recovery in cyclists hospitalised for orthopaedic trauma following an on-road crash. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 106, 341–347. 10.1016/j.aap.2017.06.019
  • Beck, B., Stevenson, M., Newstead, S., Cameron, P., Judson, R., Edwards, E., Bucknill, A., Johnson, M., & Gabbe, B. (2016). Bicycling crash characteristics: An in-depth crash investigation study. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 96, 219–227. 10.1016/j.aap.2016.08.012