More cycling projects
Project Title: BYPAD+, more Quality for Bicycle Traffic
How good is the cycling policy in your town, city or region? Is it effective and efficient? How can you improve it?
Client and question: BYPAD+ is a bicycle audit and
benchmarking system that evaluates and improves the quality level of
local cycling policies in European cities. It was developed by an
international consortium of bicycle experts, including Mobycon, as part
of an EU-funded project. More than 100 cities and 18 regions in 21
countries have already been convinced of the advantages of BYPAD and
have started improving the quality of their cycling policy with simple,
fast-working and above all cost-efficient measures.
More information can be found here: www.bypad.org
Project Title: Zwolle: Bicycle planning in a top-level bicycle-city
Client and question: Zwolle is the Provincial capital of
Overijssel; with 115,000 residents, cycling accounts for 46% of all
daily trips. Since 1975, the city has actively promoted cycling,
developing an almost comprehensive cycle network, many cycle lanes,
‘bicycle streets’ as well as supervised and unsupervised bicycle
parking. Zwolle is a national leader for cycle cities.
Yet the city still aims to increase the modal share of cycling
and is interested in pursuing innovative approaches to achieve this
goal. For such an ‘advanced’ cycling city, it is no longer enough to
work on developing more infrastructure for cyclists. That is why we
cooperated with the City on the project ‘Het Nieuwe Fietsen’ (The New
Cycling).
Result: The aim was to explore new, non-infrastructural ways
to raise the level of cycling. We identified three focus areas to
further increase the cycling modal share: link with other fields of
policy, cooperation with partners in the city and inspiration from
abroad to encourage those who are not yet cycling to become cyclists.
The project approach and results were presented at the
Velocity Global 2010 conference in Copenhagen as well as the Dutch
Mobility and Traffic conference.
More information can be found here: http://www.velo-city2010.com/
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