Planning for Cycling: Principles, Practice and Solutions for Urban Planners

✍ Scribed by Hugh McClintock

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 345
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 13
1 The mainstreaming of cycling policy......Page 20
2 The development of UK cycling policy......Page 36
3 Promoting cycling through soft non infrastructural measures......Page 55
4 Making space for cyclists a matter of speed......Page 69
5 Homezones and traffic calming implications for cyclists......Page 91
6 Developing healthy travel habits in the young......Page 105
7 The UK National Cycle Network a millennium project......Page 119
8 Cycling with public transport combined in partnership not conflict......Page 129
9 Planning for more cycling the York experience bucks the trend......Page 162
10 Planning for cyclists in Edinburgh......Page 174
11 Nottingham......Page 190
12 An efficient means of transport experiences with cycling policy in the Netherlands......Page 211
13 German cycling policy experience......Page 228
14 Urban cycling in Denmark......Page 242
15 Traffic calming on the national road network to improve cycling conditions in small towns in Poland the case of Kobylnica Slupska on National Road 21......Page 256
16 Padua a decade to become a cycle city......Page 270
17 US bicycle planning......Page 282
18 Increasing cycling through soft measures TravelSmart Perth Western Australia......Page 293
Appendix Sustainable urban travel contacts and websites......Page 309
Index......Page 338