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John Forester | |
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| Born | 7 October 1929 Dulwich, London, England |
| Died | 14 April 2020 (aged 90) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Father | C. S. Forester |
| Website | www.johnforester.com |
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John Forester (7 October 1929 – 14 April 2020) was an English-American industrial engineer, specializing in bicycle transportation engineering. A cycling activist, he was known as "the father of vehicular cycling",[1] for creating the Effective Cycling program of bicycle training along with its associated book of the same title, and for coining the phrase "the vehicular cycling principle" – "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles". His published works also included Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers.[2]
- ^ Aschwanden, Christie (2 November 2009). "Bikes and cars: Can we share the road?". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
Forester is the father of the "vehicular cycling" movement -- a philosophy that views the bicycle as a form of transportation that belongs on the streets alongside cars.
- ^ Forester, John (1994). Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers (Second ed.). Preface: MIT Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-262-56079-5.
This book is the third form of my book on cycling transportation engineering. A first version appeared under the title of Cycling Transportation Engineering Handbook (Custom Cycle Fitments, 1977), and the first formal edition was Bicycle Transportation (The MIT Press, 1983).