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UM-Flint professor explores e-bike infrastructure and safety as part of NSF-funded team

Growing e-bike popularity is causing municipalities to rethink bicycle lane considerations and better understand how to incorporate the vehicles into roadway infrastructure.

A University of Michigan-Flint professor is helping lead a new research initiative to make U.S. cities safer and more accessible for cyclists and the rapidly growing number of e-bike riders. Greg Rybarczyk, associate professor of geography and a fellow at the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, is co-principal investigator on a $610,000 National[…]

UM-Flint professor researching the future of transportation in metro Detroit

E-bike spotted by UM-Flint Associate Professor Greg Rybarczyk during his sabbatical in Germany.

Traversing metro Detroit on electric bikes could provide an easier and greener way of getting around the Motor City and a joint University of Michigan research team will work to prove that and more during the coming year. Led by Greg Rybarczyk, associate professor of geography at the University of Michigan-Flint, and Fred Feng, assistant[…]