Planning for Cycling: Principles, Practice and Solutions for Urban Planners (Woodhead Publishing in Environmental Management)

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. Describes how creating an effective policy for cycling involves combining improvements to infrastructure with education Chapters examine both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world Examines the complex relationship between cars and cycling and discusses how roads can be successfully shared between these two modes of transport 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 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.

• Describes how creating an effective policy for cycling involves combining improvements to infrastructure with education
• Chapters examine both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world
• Examines the complex relationship between cars and cycling and discusses how roads can be successfully shared between these two modes of transport

Creating an effective policy for cycling is now an essential part of developing a sustainable transport strategy for both local and national governments. There is now a wealth of international experience of how well cycling planning works in practice and how it can be improved. With a wide range of contributions from America, Australia and Europe, Planning for cycling sums up many of the lessons learnt and shows how they can be applied in improving urban planning. Successful cycling planning depends on combining improvements to infrastructure with education about the benefits of increasing cycle usage. Planning for Cycling examines national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world. It covers topics such as the creation of 'homezones', changes to existing road and rail infrastructure, and the integration of cycling with public transport