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Cycling for Everyone: Lessons from Europe

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01088435

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Abstract:

This paper investigates how bicycling can be promoted as a safe and feasible means of transport for everyone and for all trip purposes. The policies and programs needed to encourage a broad spectrum of social groups to cycle are the same policies and programs that encourage high overall levels of cycling: extensive systems of separate cycling facilities, intersection modifications and priority bicycle traffic signals, traffic calming of neighborhoods, safe and convenient bike parking, coordination and integration of cycling with public transport, traffic education and training for both cyclists and motorists, and traffic laws that favor cyclists and pedestrians. To show how this multifaceted, coordinated approach actually works, the paper focuses on cycling trends and policies in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany. The national-level comparative analysis is supplemented with case studies of large and small cities in each country.

Monograph Accession #:

01116587

Language:

English

Authors:

Pucher, John
Buehler, Ralph

Pagination:

pp 58-65

Publication Date:

2008

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2074
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309113489

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (43)

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Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 29 2008 2:34PM

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