Excursions

Project title: Copenhagen bicycle-city-staff visiting Rotterdam   

Client and Question:Municipal staff of the city of Copenhagen, responsible for cycling policies, wanted to visit sites of interest to them in the Netherlands. They wanted to learn from a Dutch city.

Result: In cooperation with a team member of the Copenhagen staff, we developed a programme in which we visited Rotterdam municipal staff, where we discussed bicycle policies and regional projects developing various bicycle highways. This was followed by a talk on cycling policies by the bicycle coordinator of Copenhagen. In the afternoon, we had a cycle tour, including the bicycle highway, route finding for cyclists and a visit to OV-fiets. This is the successful Dutch bike sharing system at stations. The finale was a dinner at the famous Hotel New York; the place from where, during the 19th and 20th century, many emigrants left for North America.