Table 2 The Active Commuting Route Environment Scale (ACRES) for bicyclists

1. How do you experience the environment on the whole along the route?

2. Do you think that, on the whole, the environment you cycle in stimulates/hinders your commuting?

3. How do you find the exhaust fume levels along your route?

4. How do you find the noise levels along your route?

5. How do you find the flow of motor vehicles (number of cars) along your route?

6. How do you find the speeds of motor vehicles (taxis, lorries, ordinary cars, buses) along your route?

7. How do you find other cyclists' speeds along your route?

8. How do you as a cyclist find the congestion levels in mixed traffic, caused by all types of vehicles, along your route?

9. How do you find the congestion levels caused by the number of cyclists on the cycle paths/cycle lanes along your route?

10. How do you find the occurrence of conflicts between you as a cyclist and other road users (including pedestrians) along your route?

11. About how large a part of your route consists of cycle paths/cycle lanes/roads separated from motor-car traffic?

12. How unsafe/safe do you feel in traffic as a cyclist along your route?

13. How do you find the availability of greenery (natural areas, parks, planted items, trees) along your route?

14. How ugly/beautiful do you find the surroundings along your route?

15. To what extent do you feel that your cycle trip is made more difficult by the course of the route?

For example a course with many sharp turns, detours, changes in direction, side changeovers etc.

16. To what extent do you feel that your cycle trip is made more difficult by hilliness?

Base this on the route to and from your place of work/study.

17. To what extent do you feel that your progress in traffic is worsened by the number of red lights during your trip to your place of work/study?

18. How short/long do you experience your route to be?