Sorry, I can't help with the citation, but after hearing a
presentation by a Vancouver, BC-area transportation planner (Gavin
Davidson) who works for the transportation authority Translink in
2004, requiring university students to purchase bus passes as part of
their student fees definitely has an effect on cycling, downward, as a
way of getting to the campus.

It makes sense to me. Both cycling and transit are (practically)
single-traveler modes used to cover distances which would be too far
to walk; if you tip the scales in favour of one mode, the other will
suffer. (Could you imagine what would happen if free transit, from
anywhere to anywhere, were provided in your community? Do we think
people would still commute by bike to work, other than people
committed to exercising?)

For short commutes, I would expect cycling will compete with transit;
for longer commutes, transit competes with motor vehicles.
(Realistically, cycling doesn't compete with motoring--in practical
terms, you just cannot do the same things with bicycles that you can
do with cars, e.g. carrying passengers, keeping cargo secure, arriving
at a destination clean and dry.)

A lot of people involved with cycling advocacy discussions often talk
about transit (buses, trains) as being an aid to the good fight
against the single-occupant motor vehicle, but the negative effect
transit has on cycling is usually not seen through the green glasses
of anti-motoring.

Anyway, I hope someone can help Wayne with finding the reference and
not be too distracted by my opinions here.

--
Michael Poplawski
Victoria, BC Canada

On 1/3/07, Wayne Pein <wpein@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of the online source for a Scandinavian study of
> transport mode choice that showed that transit is the biggest competitor
> of cycling? I seem to recall that someone on this list posted a link
> several years ago, but I haven't been able to find anything.