John Forester

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John Forester (born 1929) is a cycling transportation engineer and a noted cycling activist who coined the term Effective Cycling and the vehicular cycling principle: "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles".

John Forester is also the eldest son of writer CS Forester, best known as the author of the Horatio Hornblower novels.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Bicycle Transportation (First edition, 1977; Second MIT edition, The MIT Press, 1994) ISBN 0-262-56079-8
  • Effective Cycling (First edition, 1976; Sixth edition, The MIT Press, 1993) ISBN 0-262-56070-4
  • Effective Cycling Program, Effective Cycling Instructor's Manual, the film Bicycling Safely On The Road (Iowa State University, 1978)
  • Effective Cycling, The Movie, (Seidler Productions, 1992)
  • Novelist & Storyteller, The Life of C. S. Forester, ISBN 0-940558-04-1 (biography of his father)

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