The development of a bicycle friendly environment requires the provision of a well planned, integrated network of bicycle routes. The linking of bicycle lanes (on road) and paths (off road) with residential areas, shops, schools workplaces and recreational reserves will improve the usability of the bicycle network.
The following documents are intended to assist practitioners develop a practical, attractive and safe bicycle network:
Australia
- Pedestrian-cyclist conflict minimisation on shared paths and footpaths
Ker, I., Huband, A., Veith, G., Taylor, J., 2006, , Research Report, Austroads, Sydney.
This report investigates actual and potential conflict between cyclists and pedestrians. It outlines best practice solutions to minimise the potential for conflict between these modes of travel. These solutions cover engineering, traffic management and urban design concepts, as well as education and awareness strategies.
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- Introductory Notes: Pedestrian-cyclist conflict minimisation on paths
Australian Bicycle Council, 2006, Austroads, Sydney.
This document presents a condensed summary of the report by Ker et al (2006) titled Pedestrian-cyclist conflict minimisation on shared paths and footpaths.
View PDF - Introductory Notes 1: Pedestrian-cyclist conflict minimisation on paths
Australian Bicycle Council, 2006, Austroads, Sydney.
This paper offers a short, practical guide to determine whether conflict is likely to arise from path design. It outlines suggested design features aimed at reducing conflict for particular types of shared paths.
View PDF - Introductory Notes 2: Pedestrian-cyclist conflict minimisation on paths
Australian Bicycle Council, 2006, Austroads, Sydney.
This short document outlines the importance of integrated planning in the development of shared path networks. This ‘information note’ covers the appropriate integration of land use and transport planning with community, social and economic development.
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Australian Bicycle Council, 2006, Austroads, Sydney.
Presents a condensed summary, in table format, of the various issues related to shared path planning, design, management and use.
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- Bicycle and Shared Path Design: Taking into Account Whole of Life Costing
Ker, I., Martin, T., Jameson, G., McRobert, J., 2004, Australian Bicycle Council, Austroads, Sydney.
A presentation covering various aspects of shared path development and maintenance issues.... Offers an easy to use guide on selecting shared path pavement options.
View PDF - Forecasting demand for bicycle facilities
Katz, R., 2001, Austroads, Sydney.
This report offers a review of the various methods used to forecast demand for bicycle infrastructure. It outlines the relative benefits and limitations of each method.
View PDF - Green Bicycle Lanes: Background
Australian Bicycle Council
Introductory information covering the benefits of and the evidence for coloured bicycle lanes, as a means of improving road safety. This web-page outlines the current status of coloured bicycle lanes in most Australian states and the territories.
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- Traffic flow models allowing for pedestrians and cyclists
Austroads, 2001, Austroads, Sydney.
This document begins by reviewing the literature on safety and mobility issues for pedestrians and cyclists. An investigation of traffic models is then undertaken, with particular attention given to pedestrians and cyclists.
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allows you to measure the health, community and environmental benefits of your walking or riding. It has been developed through a partnership between ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability – Oceania (ICLEI Oceania) and The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth). VicHealth provided the funding for the development of the Active Transport Quantification Tool.
To access the tool you will need an account. This registration process allows you to revisit benefits that you have calculated earlier and allows ICLEI Oceania and VicHealth to keep your information confidential. If you are a participant in the Cities for Climate Protection program you may have an account already please contact your CCP State Manager prior to login.
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New South Wales
- METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT PLAN - Connecting the City of Cities
NSW Transport and Infrastructure, 2010, New South Wales Government- Pages 15-16 - Predicted Bicycle Mode share
- Pages 38 - Getting Sydney Moving - promoting a happy, healthy and active lifestyle
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- Planning guidelines for walking and cycling
DIPNR and RTA, (2004) Department of Planning, 73 pages
These guidelines aim to assist land–use planners and related professionals to improve consideration of walking and cycling in their work. Planning has an important role to play, particularly as it influences urban form, which sets the scene for walkability and cycleability for decades to come.
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Queensland
- Queensland Transport, Cycle Note series: Technical Information for Cycling, Queensland Government, Brisbane Visit Site
Relevant cycle notes include:
- Queensland Cycle Note C5, 2006, Personal security and bicycle facilities
This Cycle Note offers suggestions to planners and engineers on improving safety for both users, and neighbouring residents of off road bicycle paths.
View PDF - Queensland Cycle Note A1, 2006, Total Quality Management for Cycling,
This Cycle Note provides a scorecard style document to which local government can assess their performance on bicycle encouragement. The purpose of the document is to enhance the level of consistency and integration upon which local councils provide cycle facilities and encouragement.
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- Queensland Cycle Note C5, 2006, Personal security and bicycle facilities
Victoria
- On-road arterial bicycle routes
VicRoads, 2000, Victorian Government, Melbourne.
Vicroads Cycle Notes No. 7 offers guidance on how to provide cyclists amenity on arterial routes. The paper distinguishes between local and arterial routes in an effort to provide a bicycle network that best meets the needs of cyclists with different abilities/experience.
View PDF - Victorian Bicycle Network Planning
Offers a brief overview of bicycle network planning in Victorian with links to related information.
Visit Site - Principal Bicycle Network
The Principal Bicycle Network is Melbourne’s major network of cycle routes, both actual and proposed. To date, 1,200km has been completed, with a further 2,300km planned for the future.
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Bicycle Victoria
This webpage is presented as a toolbox for local government to assist in the development of bicycle friendly local street design.
Rose, G., 2003, Bikes and travel behaviour change – a transport engineers perspective, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University, Melbourne.
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Canberra, 20 - 21 November.
This presentation explores the balance between travel behaviour change program such as TravelSmart, with other methods of encouragement, such as bicycle infrastructure improvements.
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Tasmania
- Draft Hobart Regional Arterial Bicycle Network
The plan was developed through a working group made up of representatives from Hobart, Clarence, Glenorchy, Kingborough and Brighton Councils as well as a representative from the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources. A funding grant was provided by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts to assist with the development of the plan. CyclingSouth prepared the document with reference to the municipal bicycle plans of each Council and in consultation with the working group.
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New Zealand
- Cycle network and route planning guide
Ryan, P., Boulter, R., Dorrestyn, K. & Underlien Jensen, S. (2004) Land Transport Safety Authority, New Zealand
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This comprehensive guidebook aims to promote a consistent approach to planning for cycling in New Zealand – although it has widely applicable recommendations. This guide is intended to assist planners and other professionals improve bicycle friendly design and amenity. - Improved multi-lane roundabout design for cyclists
Campbell, D., Jurisich, I., Dunn, R., 2006, Research Report 287, Land Transport New Zealand, Wellington.
This report highlights safety concerns for cyclists at multi-lane roundabouts and develops recommendations to improve their safety performance.
View PDF - Balancing the needs of cyclists and motorists
Walton, D., Dravitzki, V.K., Cleland, B.S., Thomas, J. A., Jackett, R., 2005, Research Report No. 273, Land Transport New Zealand, Wellington.
This report highlights common points of conflict between the needs of cyclists and motorists. It provides recommendations on road designs to minimise these points of conflict by offering a balance between the needs of both road users.
View PDF - Estimating demand for new cycling facilities in New Zealand
A free download, research paper from Department of Land Transport in New Zealand.
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International
- Sustainable Streets 2009 Progress Report
In the Spring of 2008, NYCDOT released Sustainable Streets, its new strategic plan. The plan laid out, for the first time ever, a clear and detailed transportation policy for New York City — one that promised a new direction. DOT is delivering on the promises of its plan, and is moving forward on every one of the 164 actions committed to in Sustainable Streets. This annual update of the plan reports on that progress, and serves as a focal point for meeting targets and sustaining momentum across all of our Agency’s programs. It also sets forth new goals that have emerged during the past year, ranging from development of an internal DOT car-sharing system to further reduce DOT’s fleet, parking needs and miles driven, to issuing a request for proposals to establish a large scale public bicycle system in New York, similar to those in Paris and other cities.
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the Original Plan - View PDF
the 2009 Update - View PDF - Fietsberaad, 2005, Publication #6 - Visit Site
Goudappel Coffeng conducted research for the Fietsberaad (co-operating administrative bodies on cycling policy) to investigate the use, necessity and possibilities of bicycle streets. This publication consists of three parts, each of which can be read independently of the other two parts.- Part I: Main bicycle routes in practice
In descriptions of bicycle streets as a functional term, the word ‘main bicycle routes’ is important. What are main bicycle routes in practice (as regards function, relationship to other bicycle routes, design, etc.) and to what extent do they or could they usefully include bicycle streets? - Part II: The value of bicycle streets
A description of what bicycle streets could be at functional level: function, features, position in bicycle networks, added value in practice. - Part III: The design of bicycle streets
A catalogue of the many models which currently function in practice. These models are clustered according to design features.
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- Part I: Main bicycle routes in practice
- National Cycle Network - Visit Site
Sustrans was founded in 1977, by a group of people in Bristol keen to work towards a future in which people travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. The first route was the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, a 17-mile traffic-free trail along a disused railway.
2010 marks the 15th anniversary of the National Cycle Network. In September 1995 Sustrans was the first charity to receive funding from the newly-created National Lottery. The award contributed towards the first 2,500 miles of a 6,500 mile National Cycle Network.
2010 National Cycle Network map illustrating routes throughout the UK - published Feb 10 (PDF, 1MB) - View PDF - PRESTO
PRESTO – “Promoting Cycling for Everyone as a Daily Transport Mode” is a project of the EU’s Intelligent Energy – Europe Programme granted by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI).
PRESTO is about competence building in cycling policies. The project aims to offer a set of tools for technicians to create cycle friendly urban environments, to implement sound cycling plans and to start up targeted promotion campaigns. Besides the local activities in the five PRESTO cities are meant for the people, to encourage the use of bicycles also among elderly or those who live in very hilly areas. Today, pedelecs (bicycles assisted by an electric motor) are making cycling even more accessible and PRESTO will involve dealers to set up “try-out days” of pedelecs where people can test and see for themselves the advantages. Finally PRESTO will test an e-learning tool focusing on cycling policies aiming to become a long lasting training course.
The PRESTO website offers an overview of the project and its results. Find the training materials in the Policy Guides and Fact Sheets area and download the files in six languages. Check out the calendar of the “try-out days” of pedelecs in the Local news pages.
For each PRESTO pillar, Infrastructure planning, Promotion of urban cycling, and Promotion of pedelecs, a Policy Guide document is published by the PRESTO team. These are meant to give urban decision makers insight into the key principles and critical issues of a high-quality cycling development policy. A fourth Guide offers a general framework on the PRESTO approach to foster cycling in cities. Additionally, for those more technically involved with policy implementation, a number of Fact Sheets highlight key measures
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Autocentric Development was a Mistake, Let's Fix It (Video)
Michael Graham Richard, 1 March 2010, Canada: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation Via StreetFilms Visit Site
The man in the picture above is Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives. In the video below, the start of a great new series that will "examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today," Mr. White describes the transformation of NYC (he's sitting on all that is left of the "park" of Park Avenue) and what should be done to fix that mistake, and how that has already started happening. He's very inspiring, and the video is worth watching.
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Bicycling and Walking in the U.S.: 2010 Benchmarking Report
This comprehensive study by the Alliance for Biking & Walking reveals that in almost every state and major U.S. city, bicyclists and pedestrians are at a disproportionate risk of being killed, and receive less than their fair share of transportation dollars. While 10% of U.S. trips are by bike or foot, and 13% of traffic fatalities are bicyclists and pedestrians, yet biking and walking receive less than 2% of federal transportation dollars. The report indicates that states with the lowest levels of biking and walking have, on average, the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. International comparisons indicate that the U.S. investments less in biking and walking and has less biking and walking activity than its peers.
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8 Ways to Create City Utopias for Peds and Cyclists (Or At Least Stop Killing Them...Us)
April Streeter, 9 February 2010, Sweden:TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation
Without even knowing it, you are daily performing, probably at least a little bit, the death-defying act of pedestrianism. (And the most fatal area for peds? D.C.) Traffic fatalities have been relatively stable since the 1990s - around 5,000 pedestrian deaths annually, with 700 of those cyclists. Yes, accidents happen, but looking forward to Transport World 2.0 perhaps we need not kill so many pedestrians and pedalers, and instead start to create the livable cities that logically seem part of our bi-pedal birthright.
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Long Beach makes way for bicycles
Tony Barboza, 26 January 2010, Los Angeles Times - Out there
The city is proactive in becoming more cyclist friendly, even creating 'sharrows' for bikes and cars to share lanes. And 20 miles of new bike lanes are coming soon.
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Bicycle Culture 2.0 in Copenhagen: Look at This Amazing Bike-Friendly Urban Planning (Video)
Michael Graham Richard, 14 December 2009, Canada : TreeHugger - Culture & Celebrity (audio video) via StreetFilms Visit Site
Our friend Elizabeth Press went to Copenhagen for COP15, and while there she had the chance to shoot some video (with Mikeal from Copenhagenize) and I must say that the more I learn about Copenhagen's bike infrastructure, the more impressed I am. It just goes to show that Field of Dreams was right: if you build it, they will come. New York City is seeing some of that with massive increases in the number of cyclists, and other cities around the world should join the two-wheel party. The Cyclist Counter even makes a cameo at the beginning of the video. Via Streetfilms
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Cycling-inclusive Policy Development: A Handbook
GTZ SUTP and the Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-Ce), (2009)
This handbook provides detailed information on how to develop cycling-friendly policies and facilities. It can help you, as a planner, engineer, community leader of advocate to enrich your own ideas about the future traffic and transport system where you live and work. It has been written by 12 authors who are experts in different fields of cycling-inclusive development.
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Forecasting Pedestrian and Bicycle Travel Demands Using Travel Demand Model and Mode Share/Trip Length DataPortland, Oregon / Vancouver, Washington
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
The forecasting methodology was developed in partnership with the members of the Columbia River Crossing Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee (PBAC). PBAC members included representatives from Washington, Oregon, Portland, and Vancouver departments of transportation, as well as representatives from several local non-profit advocacy organizations. Input and feedback on the forecasting methodology and results were solicited from the group throughout the process.
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Making the invisible visible - the real value of park assets
CABE space, (2009) Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
In Making the invisible visible: the real value of park assets CABE challenges the ‘invisibility’ of parks and green spaces within current asset management planning. An improved understanding of the current value of park and green space assets is an important first step in better strategic management and in assisting local authorities in using their assets to make a positive difference to communities.-
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- Pedestrian and Bicycle Strategic Plan
IBPI RESEARCH DIGEST City of Eugene & University of Oregon, U of O Community Planning Workshops
In October 2006, the City of Eugene kicked off its first Pedestrian and Bicycle Strategic Plan with the Eugene Walking and Biking Summit. The summit marked the beginning of a yearlong public involvement process that includes a series of community workshops and focus groups. Workshop topics included Youth Safety and Education, Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities and Infrastructure, Accessibility for Seniors and People with Disabilities, Education and Encouragement, and Bicycle Parking and Theft.
View PDF - Planning for Cycling
SQW consulting, (2008) Report (1.2 Meg) prepared for Cycling England
The aim (of the report) is to encourage local authorities to treat cycling investments alongside mainstream transport projects, balancing the full costs and benefits for each case before making rational decisions. The report finds that despite good intentions, the challenges of understanding and applying the full benefits, and a lack of evidence on the performance of cycling investments, remain obstacles to achieving this aim.
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SQW consulting, (2008) Planning for Cycling, Executive Summary, prepared for Cycling England
View PDF - CYCLING ON THE RISE - Public Bicycles and Other European Experiences
Spicycles, (2009) Report dowload (3.6 Meg)
When the Spicycles project was launched in 2006, cycling was not the “hot” mode of transport that it has become today. As project partners, we wanted to gather experience related to specific areas of cycling policy. We were keen to explore how key elements such as communication and awareness raising, and the building of local partnerships, might increase themodal share of cycling. We had big expectations at the beginning of the project regarding cycling planning, but could not have predicted the explosion in the popularity of public bicycle systems that has taken place during Spicycles.
View PDF - A Walking and Cycling Action Plan for Wales 2009 - 2013
Welsh Assembly Government (2009)
This Action Plan brings together all the key initiatives which the Welsh Assembly Government and its key partners are undertaking or planning to undertake in support of walking and cycling in Wales. A key aim of the Plan is to help secure a change in behaviour - so that more people, young and old, walk and cycle more often. As the statistics at the end of the Plan reveal, current participation rates are low; and the Action Plan aims to change that.
View PDF - Development of Boulder's Multimodal System
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) (2009)
What steps must a city take once its leaders decide to encourage more transportation options to reduce reliance on car travel?
Visit Site - Smart Transportation Economic Stimulation Infrastructure Investments That Support Strategic Planning Objectives Provide True Economic Development
Litman, T. 9 February 2009, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
This report discusses factors to consider when evaluating transportation economic stimulation strategies. Transportation investments can have large long-term economic, social and environmental impacts. Expanding urban highways tends to stimulate motor vehicle travel and sprawl, exacerbating future transport problems and threatening future economic productivity. Improving alternative modes (walking and cycling conditions, and public transit service quality) tends to reduce total motor vehicle traffic and associated costs, providing additional long-term economic savings and benefits. Increasing transport system efficiency tends to create far more jobs than those created directly by infrastructure investments. Domestic automobile industry subsidies are ineffective at stimulating employment or economic development. Public policies intended to support domestic automobile sales could be economically harmful in the long-term.
View PDF - Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
The mayor of a global metropolis, elected to his first term in 2001, set out to reduce driving and promote greener modes of transportation in his city. Congestion pricing turned out to be unfeasible, because influential political forces in the suburbs believed, rightly or wrongly, that charging people to drive into the urban core was regressive. Undaunted, the mayor found other means to achieve his transportation agenda.(Visit Site), Case Study - How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing
Visit Site - Sustainable Transport: A Sourcebook for Policy-Makers in Developing Cities - Preserving and Expanding the Role of Non-motorised Transport
Hook, W. (2003) Division 44, GTZ Transport and Mobility Group
The Sourcebook is intended for use by policy makers in developing cities, and their advisors, it provides policy tools appropriate for application in a range of developing cities.
View PDF - Creating a web-based bike routing application Project Summary and Report of Findings
City of Boulder, USA (2007)
GOBikeBoulder.net is a new Transportation Demand Management tool aimed to make commuting by bike in Boulder more convenient through use of a web-based routing application. With GOBikeBoulder.net, users input their trip origin and trip destination to receive a map of the recommended travel route that includes turn by turn directions and related information such as calories burned and gas saved by biking instead of driving this route.
View PDF - Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Centre
- Creating Active Rural Communities
Haliburton County, Ontario - Contact: Sue Shikaze, Health Promoter, Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit, Box 570, 191 Highland St, Unit 301, Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0, susans@haliburton.hkpr.on.ca
There are many challenges unique to creating active communities in rural places, and yet there is very little literature or research to guide a community that pursues this goal. Some of the obstacles a rural community faces include large distances between destinations (20 km/12 miles or more); a prevalent "car culture"; an extensive road network and a small tax base, so that the focus on transportation is to maintain existing roads for cars, rather than to create or improve walking or cycling infrastructure; and limited capacity or expertise within municipal governments (staff and elected representatives) to make planning for active communities a priority.
Visit Site - Transportation Planning and Development: A closer look at linking transit to bicycling and walking
Contact: Tom Fisher, Project Manager, Transit Services Division, City of Tucson, 149 N. Stone, 2nd Floor, Tucson, AZ 85726, (520)791-5883, tom.fisher@tucsonaz.gov
Can communities reduce the length or number of car trips by making better intermodal connections? An intermodal trip involves more than one type of transportation, such as walking and transit, bicycling and transit, or driving and transit. Communities interested in offering commuters more transportation choices in an age of rising gas prices and concern about climate change can learn from the plans, policies and programs implemented by the City of Tucson.
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- Creating Active Rural Communities
- At the Frontiers of Cycling: Policy Innovations in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany
Pucher, J. & Buelher, R., 2007, World Transport Policy and Practice, Volume 13 No. 3, Eco-Logica Ltd
This article presents 6 detailed studies of cycling in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. They represent the best in coordinated policies and programs to make cycling safe, convenient and attractive. On offer are many lessons to the Western World about the best ways to encourage more cycling.
View PDF - Pedestrian and bicycle planning: A guide to best practice
Litman, T., Blair, R., Demopoulos, B., Eddy, N., Fritzel, A., Laidlaw, D., Maddox, H., Forster, K., 2002, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria, Canada.
Pedestrian and bicycle planning: A guide to best practice Guide Appendices, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria, Canada.A thorough guide to best practice pedestrian and bicycle planning. This is an excellent resource for anyone wishing to achieve better planning outcomes for pedestrians and cyclists. An extensive list of references allows for convenient research opportunities.
Visit Site - Bikeability checklist
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Centre
A practical guide designed to evaluate the bicycle friendliness of particular localities. Although it was developed in the United States, the majority of the content is relevant to the Australian context.
View PDF - Bicycle Friendly Communities: Enhancing Cities Through Cycling
League of American Bicyclists, 2006
Presents case studies of the top performing US cities, in terms of bicycle friendliness. Highlights the wide range of initiatives possible to improve conditions for cyclists and thereby enhance the liveability of urban environments.
International Symposium on Bicycle Friendly Communities - 4 March 2004 webpage with links - Visit Site
The Action Plan for Bicycle Friendly Communities - View PDF
Example of a standard letter to start an action plan - Visit Site - Traffic Safety Effects of Roundabouts: A review with Emphasis on Bicyclist's Safety
Daniels, S. Wets, G., 2005, 18th ICTCT Workshop
A paper from Hasselt University, Transportation Research Institute (IMOB) on cyclist safety with regard to roundabouts.
View PDF - Cycle route network planning using GIS
Macbeth, A. G., Allen, T. & Barton, A. (2007) NZ Cycling Conference
This paper describes how demographic data (population, employment and school rolls), conventional transport planning computer model data, road and cycle route networks and other data can be analysed using the power of a GIS. This tool can be used to recommend where cycle routes and networks should be located to provide better service for more people.
Like any good model, the ARTA and VicRoads cycle route network GIS models improve our understanding of a complex, underlying system (in this case the fabric of our cities) as much as it provides us with specific answers to specific cycle route network questions.
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The presentation from the conference View PDF (6.5 MB). - Best practice to promote cycling and walking
Road Directorate
The ADONIS project was commissioned by the European Commission to a Consortium comprising 7 partners as part of the Fourth Framework Programme. Original title of the project is: Analysis and Development Of New In-sight into Substitution of short car trips by cycling and walking - ADONIS.
The ADONIS project was partly funded by the EU - DG VII Transport RTD Programme, Urban Sector and was co-financed by Danish Transport Council, Danish Ministry of Transport, Municipality of Barcelona, Catalan In-stitute of Road safety, SAINCO TRAFICO S.A., Swedish Transport & Communications Research Board and Belgian Institute for Traffic Safety.
The entire PDF View PDF (45Mb), smaller PDF sections of the document are available on the website.
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- Case Study - New National Network Promotes Cycling in Mexico
The Urban and Tourist Cycling Network, a national effort to promote cycling in Mexico, was founded during the first Urban Cycling Congress. Twenty organizations from over ten cities attended, agreeing that one of the first objectives of the network will be to propose and advocate for legal and institutional reforms to include cycling as a priority in the national transport policy agenda.
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Enrique Penalosa - the iconic Colombian mayor who transformed the city of Bogota, together with top Latin American and US transport experts - has been contracted as an adviser to Cape Town mayor Helen Zille, who hopes to emulate Penalosa’s example.
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Transportation-related issues present a serious challenge to improving the quality of life for Mexico City’s 19 million residents. Of the 2.5 million tons of pollutants emitted into the city’s air each year, more than 80% come from cars and other motorize vehicles.
Though only 20% of all the trips in Mexico City each day are made in cars, 80% of its physical space is dedicated to travel by car. Seven out of ten Mexican citizens are overweight or obese.
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- Case Study - New National Network Promotes Cycling in Mexico
- "Vélo Liberté" or Freedom Bike
- Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. He also writes, teaches and consults on urban development and planning.
- New York: Cycling
Issue Issue 108 August, 2009
The redevelopment of New York to a cycle friendly city.
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Paris Vélib’
Issue Issue 101 March 11, 2008
Overview of the Paris Bike Share system
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- London Needs to Set Walking and Cycling Targets for 2012 Olympics
Michael Graham Richard, 22 July 2009, Canada: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation Via Edie News
What You Can Measure You Can Improve - Cities lucky enough to host the Olympics have a rare opportunity to improve their infrastructure in a major way. London will host the games in 2012, and it's doing a lot of things right, but it seems like it could do more to make the city friendlier to cyclists and pedestrians (one of the weaknesses of the city's bid to the International Olympic Committee was public transportation). The decisions it makes now will have an impact for decades to come, so it's worth doing it right.
Visit Site - Vancouver's bikeways are expanding to meet demand.
This network of safe routes are fast becoming an integral part of our transportation system. Learn about new road markings such as sharrows and bike boxes and how they help cyclists and motorists by encouraging predictable, clear positioning on the road.- City of Vancouver's Cycling Page - Visit Site
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A positive step towards safer and more sustainable commuting - Visit Site
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Public Bike Share System - Visit Site
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Bike Maps (2.5 MB) - View PDF
- City of Vancouver's Cycling Page - Visit Site
- They Are Building Bicycle Superhighways in Copenhagen
Lloyd Alter, 21 August 2009, Canada: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation (bikes)
I learned the hard way recently about a terrific website that promotes "Copenhagenizing," Visit Site noting that "Each and every day 500,000 people ride their bicycle to work or school in Copenhagen."
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International Videos
Video's on urban planning that include good public transport, pedestrian and cycle friendly spaces:
- Congestion in Copenhagen (Yikes: Bikes)
17 November 2007 (1:53 mins video)
Jan Gehl, Danish Urban Planner and Bicycle advocate.
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17 Januray 2008 (0:53 mins video)
Interview with Jan Gehl, Danish Urban Planner and Bicycle advocate.
Visit Site - Jan Gehl - Documentary Excerpt - Livable Places
30 Januray 2008 (3:24 mins video)
Visit Site - A Bicycle Story
Clark Jones, C. (2007) (3.00 min video)
Visit Site - Portland Considered Most Bicycle-Friendly City in America
produced by Democracy Now (USA) (2008) (8.30 min video)
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I-Ce & PPQ (2007) (15 min low resolution video)
scripted by Enrique Penalosa the film shows cycle friendly cities in Denmark, Paris and Columbia.
Visit Site - Interview with Enrique Peñalosa
Eckerson Jr., C. (2007) (12.07 min video) NYC Street Renaissance, StreetFilms.org
Dr Peñalosa, Ex Mayor of Bogota and bicycle advocate. Dr Peñalosa changed the way Bogota treated its non-driving citizens by restricting automobile use and instituting a bus rapid transit system which now carries a 1/2 million residents daily. Among other improvements: he widened and rebuilt sidewalks, created grand public spaces, and implemented over one hundred miles of bicycle paths.
TOPP Executive Director Mark Gorton discusses with Penalosa some of these transportation achievements and asks what the future could hold for NYC if similar improvements were made here.
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Eckerson Jr., C. (2008) (9.58 min video) NYC Street Renaissance, StreetFilms.org
In the final chapter of our September NYCSR visit to Colombia, where the indefatigable Gil Peñalosa was our tour guide, you’ll find lots of tasty video morsels including: riding the comfortable ciclorutas and cycle paths, a visit to a thriving pedestrian-only street where they said it couldn’t be done, a “bollard farm,” mucho footage of the city’s parks and public spaces and comments from the city’s residents. And we couldn’t resist - just a wee bit more dance mania at the Recreovia.
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- Enrique Penalosa, Running Cities Debate Part 1
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- Enrique Penalosa, Running Cities Debate Part 1
- Bike Boxes
StreetFilms.org (USA) (2008) (1.45 min video)
The NYC DOT has been quietly rolling out dozens of bike boxes all over Gotham. It’s really quite remarkable. But since the majority of riders seem not to know what they are or how to use them just yet, StreetFilms thought this would be a fun way to educate cyclists to love and cherish the Bike Box.
Visit Site - The Case for Separated Bike Lanes in NYC
StreetFilms.org (USA) (2006) (8.30 min video) NYC Streets Renaissance, StreetFilms
Visit Site - Physically Separated Bike Lanes: a short film
Eckerson Jr., C. (2007) (8.30 mins video) NYC Streets Renaissance, StreetFilms
A short film on why bicycle lanes should be separated.
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Ninth Avenue gets a physically separated bike lane
Eckerson Jr., C. (2007) (1.52 mins video) NYC Streets Renaissance, StreetFilms
With Ninth Avenue getting a physically-separated cycle track, The NYC Department of Transportation has set the bar high for the nation. Though the innovation is still being rolled out - eventually there’ll be green pedestrian refuges, exclusive light signals for cyclists, signage, stencils and more - that didn’t stop and the cycling denizens of Gotham from using it today.
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Janette Sadik-Khan's - Sustainable Streets
Eckerson Jr., C. (2008) NY, USA (5.32 mins video) NYC Streets Renaissance, StreetFilms
NYC DOT Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, and her team unveiled “Sustainable Streets” - a Strategic Plan for 2008 and beyond - posted highlights of her historic speech to share.
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Gary Toth: Reinventing Transportation Planning as Community Development
Eckerson Jr., C. (2008) (10:43 mins video) NYC Streets Renaissance, StreetFilms
Recently, we were very lucky to have Streetsblog's Editor-in-chief, Aaron Naparstek in the "Streetfilms Headquarters" to chat with Gary Toth the Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives with the Project for Public Spaces.
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