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Planning for cycling: Principles, practice and solutions for urban planners

Edited by H McClintock, University of Nottingham, UK

Should be read by every cycling officer and transport planner.
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Successful cycling planning depends on combining improvements to infrastructure with education. There are chapters examining both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world, including such topics as changes to existing road infrastructure and the integration of cycling with public transport. Since education is a critical element in cycling planning, contributors also consider such topics as developing healthy travel habits in the young and ways of promoting cycling. A number of chapters look at the complex relationship between cars and cycling, discussing how roads can be successfully shared between these two modes of transport.

With its blend of practical experience and suggestions for improvement, Planning for cycling is essential reading for urban planners, environmental groups and those researching in this area.

ISBN 1 85573 581 4
ISBN-13: 978 1 85573 581 1
September 2002
344 pages  234 x 156mm  hardback  
£145.00 / US$245.00 / €180.00

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About the editor

Hugh McClintock, University of Nottingham, UK

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Contents

Mainstreaming of cycling policy
 - Health and transport; Environmental policy
 - Urban quality of life
 - Road safety
 - Sustainable development
 - National and regional contrasts in cycle use levels
 - Public policy role in development of cycling policy

Development of UK cycling policy
 - Cycling policy development landmarks
 - 1970s to early 1990s
 - National Cycling Strategy
 - Development of technical guidance for cycling infrastructure
 - 1998 Integrated Transport White Paper and Local Transport Plans
 - Revised Planning Policy Guidance on land use and transport planning
 - Assessment of UK cycle planning experience
 - future challenges

romoting cycling through 'soft' (non-infrastructural) measures
 - Cycling to work and education
 - Cycle use for shopping
 - Cycle parking; Leisure cycling
 - Cycling promotion initiatives
 - Partnership, leadership and a coordinated approach to cycling provision
 - Monitoring cycle use and learning from experience

Making space for cyclists…a matter of speed?
 - Policy position regarding cycling
 - Where to 'start' first?
 - The 'local' town centre as one of the first steps
 - Sharing a safer main street?
 - A concept from Denver, Colorado USA
 - Bicycle friendly streets in Brisbane
 - Sharing a safer main street in practice
 - Bicycle friendly streets in NSW
 - Where to from here?

Homezones and traffic calming: implications for cyclists
 - Homezone idea
 - Who is the homezone/Woonerf for?
 - Popularity of homezone
 - National Policy
 - Inherent disadvantages of hierarchical system
 - Induced and reducing traffic
 - Case study- De Strijp
 - Homezone –a conclusion

Developing health travel habits in the young – Safe routes to school in UK
 - Redressing the decline
 - Central government action
 - How the issues are being redressed
 - Routes to a school travel plan
 - Cycling to school

UK National Cycle Network – a millennium project:
 - Development of a national network
 - Growth of the network
 - Network usage
 - The future

Cycling with public transport- Combined in partnership not conflict
 - Journey profile – assessing potential
 - Cycle access to/ from railway stations
 - Providing short/ long term cycle parking at stations
 - Parking for regular users- all day/night
 - 'Bicycle station' and cycle hire facilities
 - Cycle parking at suburban stations and bus/tram stops
 - Park & Ride schemes – and corruption of their use
 - Carriage of bikes on trains, trams, light rail, buses and taxis
 - External interface between bikes and trams
 - Sharing road space with buses
 - Paperwork –Audits and conditions of carriage
 - Promotion

Planning for more cycling – York experience bucks trend:
 - Background; Strategy
 - Cycle infrastructure funding
 - Cycle network
 - City centre bridges
 - Magic roundabout
 - Millennium bridge
 - Marketing
 - Reducing social exclusion
 - Maintenance
 - Monitoring
 - Safety
 - Usage and targets
 - Future aspirations

Planning for cyclists – Edinburgh
 - Conversion of old railway lines
 - 30 year plan
 - Following the water
 - Follow the bus
 - Traffic management including cycle parking
 - Safe routes to school
 - Traffic calming
 - SPOKES
 - A network approach
 - New projects for new millennium
 - Cycle policies
 - Benchmarking
 - Cycle use

Planning for cyclists – Nottingham
 - Development of Nottingham Cycle Network
 - Greater Nottingham Cycle-friendly Employers Project
 - Impact of wider changes in national and local transport planning context
 - Cycling policy initiatives
 - Cycling controversies
 - Monitoring cycle use

An efficient means of transport – Experience with cycling policy in the Netherlands
 - Geographical background
 - ory of bicycle use and policy
 - 20th Century Dutch bicycle policy
 - 1900-1999 Bicycle Master Plan period
 - Cycle use
 - Cyclist safety
 - Combination of public transport and bicycle
 - Cycle parking facilities and theft prevention
 - Conclusion and future plans

German cycling policy experience:
 - Promotion of cycling by municipalities and federal states
 - Cycling to work – cycling promotion by Enterprises
 - Relevant cycling policy experiences

Urban cycling in Denmark
 - Decrease in cycling –with exceptions
 - Cycling; National cycling strategy
 - Cycle tracks and paths
 - Traffic safety
 - Denmark's national cycling city
 - Copenhagen –city for cyclists
 - CityBike –positive publicity project

Traffic-calming through the National Road in small towns in Poland as measure of cycling conditions improvement –Kobylnica Slupska National Road #21
 - National context of cycle use in Poland
 - Case of Kobylnica
 - Conclusion and implications

Padua –a decade to become a Cycle City
 - Development of cycling strategy
 - Key requirements
 - Implementation
 - Current situation

US bicycle planning
 - Future prospects
 - Obstacles
 - New directions

Increasing cycling through 'soft' measures (TravelSmart) Perth, Australia
 - Western Australia situation
 - Perth policy context
 - Infrastructure approach
 - Non-built approach
 - Project history
 - Methods
 - Program evaluation
 - Next steps