Table 2 Contextual information for interview participants

Andrew

Male

43

Cycles every day to work; lives a 12-minute cycle ride from work

Debbie

Female

61

Reports some walking; lives in a small village 20 miles from work without good public transport and mainly drives; at time of survey she used park-and-ride and so walked from bus stop; at time of interview six months later she drives

Frank

Male

61

Cycles four miles every day to work

Gordon

Male

68

Is given a lift by partner halfway to work and walks the rest of the way; used to cycle the 6.5 miles from his village to work

Greg

Male

61

Cycles 25 minutes every day to work from suburbs

Hannah

Female

23

Walks 10 minutes every day to the bus stop to catch the bus to work; lives in village 13 miles outside of Cambridge, from which the journey takes her 1½ hours

Isabel

Female

52

Cycles six miles every day to work from north of Cambridge to the south

John

Male

36

Cycles 15 minutes every day to work

Katie

Female

42

Cycles 15–20 minutes every day from the suburbs

Lucy

Female

45

Drives every day to the park-and-ride facility and then walks 30 minutes to work

Martin

Male

49

Usually drives the 15 miles to work but aims to cycle all the way twice a week

Pete

Male

41

Cycles every day to work; most direct route would be 10 miles and take him 35 minutes

Sam

Male

58

On four days a week car-shares with his wife to work; on fifth day, walks 20 minutes on a busy road to the railway station to travel the 15 miles to Cambridge and then walks a further 10 minutes to work

Sophie

Female

33

Usually cycles from the park-and-ride to work, but once a week she cycles the six miles all the way to work from her village outside Cambridge

Susanne

Female

39

Takes the bus to work; she also walks to the bus stop and still cycles between her two workplaces in Cambridge