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• Promotion of safe walking and cycling in urban areas
  This project focuses on exchange and dissemination of good practices and on improving the assessment of health effects from cycling and walking, as well as the costs and benefits of promoting non-motorized transport.
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• Masterplan Cycling
  Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW).  The promotion of bicycle usage - which produces no air pollution and noise and is as well health enhancing through the physical activity – has a high significance for the Austrian government. The new Austrian Government Programme foresees to promote cycling as a healthy and environmental-friendly form of transport. The overall aim is to double the share of bicycle transport to reach 10 % on a country-wide average until 2015. Furthermore the Austrian “Climate Strategy” and the “Programme of Options between Federation and Federal states for PM10 reduction” as well as the CEHAPE aims suggest bicycle transport as a very important measure to promote physical activity and simultaneously to reduce air-pollution (and noise, traffic jams, space consumption, energy consumption etc). To fulfill these programmes the BMLFUW developed a “Masterplan Cycling” in September 2006. With this Masterplan the positive effects of everyday cycling for environment and health shall be gained by promotion of cycling in various fields.
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