What graphic organizer would work best to summarize this passage? In order to understand human behavior, psychologists often look to case studies. They find a specific example of a situation that they want to understand better, and they analyze it to try to learn what is influencing people’s behavior. To better understand how to make alternative transportation appeal to people, psychologists turned to the countries of Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany.
All three of these countries have had success making cycling “irresistible” to a large portion of the population, in part by policies that focused specifically on bikes and in part by linking bike networks to public transportation networks. As you will see, the heart of the approach they used was a “carrot-and-stick approach.” All three countries worked to make alternative transportation more desirable and convenient (the carrot) while also making owning and driving a car less desirable and more inconvenient (the stick).
Local governments in all three countries used a multifaceted approach to make cycling a safe and reasonable form of transportation. Take a look at some of the problems they faced and the solutions Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands implemented.
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a chronological graphic organizer listing all the benefits
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a Venn diagram comparing two different types of transportation
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a cause and effect chart describing how the European approach of making biking more desirable has improved the transportation problem
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none of these