Cycling development
A cycle-friendly settlement
Dr. György KukelyTerra Studio Ltd.
Good practices (experiences of field assessments)
•Suitable cycle infrastructure (quantity and quality)
•Safety storage
•Lot of people cycling to work
CHARACTERTISTICS OF BIKE FRIENDLY SETTLEMENTS
Good practices (experiences of field assessments)
•Cycle paths for spare time cycling
•The management of the settlement is committed to cycle developments
•Well-established developments(hálózati terv)
CHARACTERTISTICS OF BIKE FRIENDLY SETTLEMENTS
BIKEFRIENDLY SETTLEMENT ADVENCED LEVEL
Further conditions – rarely experienced:
• Settlements – not to be car-oriented• Do not „protect” the cars from the cyclists • Reintegration of pedestrians, cyclists to the same transport
surface level as cars• Abolish the obstacles of settlement for cyclists (junction without
crossings, bridges, overpasses etc)• More active social awareness raising, education
• Slow progression to the fulfilment of „ADVANCED” conditions of cycle friendly settlement!
NOT BIKEFRIENDLY CHARACTERISTICS
Tipical problems
• One-sided facilities
• Cycle lanes on pavements
• Not expected behaviour ofcyclists and pedestrians
• Missing connections
• Obstacles in bike paths (bridges, overpasses, crossings)
NOT BIKEFRIENDLY CHARACTERISTICS
Tipical problems
• Not enough and not safety capacity ofbike stands
• Missing traffic signs information boards
• Lack of maintenance
Suggestions:Decrease car traffic– political decisionTake away place from cars!Create good precedent – there are no good examples
INTEGRATED APPROACH
Integrated approach doesn’t work enough
592 town development projects 104 have cycle element
511 road development projects 31 have cycle element
Suggestions:If we have an investment take into consideration all transporterIntegrated approach appear in project ideas and tender documentsPotential cycle element draw attention for it
• Everyday transport mode• Bike stands at train and bus stations• Not bikefriendly stations• Not closed, not safety bike stands • Good practices for railway crossings at the same surface level • Problems of railway over and underpasses • Carrying cycle on public transport
INTERMODALITY, MODAL-SPLIT
Suggestions:Public transport and cycling increase the
attractiveness of each other The goal: change from the car to an
alternative transport mode Development of modal-split
MAINTENANCE
• 1.476,9 km mainly new facilities• Who has to/can sustain these facilities?• Self-governments undertake it.
Suggestions:Changing of approach in development policy Ensure money for the maintenance of cycle infrastructureIntermediate Body– more emphasize on annual control
Kőbánya Fehér útNagybajom 61-es főútBékés-Mezőberény
AWARENESS RAISING
Goal of the awareness raising projects:
• Cycling would be safety +
• Cycling would be more popular
Projects:• Infrastructure development compulsory element ROP• Awareness raising environmental projects
Target groups:• Schools• The whole settlement
CYCLE TRANSPORT
Types of these projects:
• Campaign in order to popularize cycling• Cycling race• Cycling tour• Bike to work• Bike to school• education
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Cycle stands, purchase cycles, cycle hire, service
CYCLE TRANSPORT
Self-governments build and maintenance of infrastructure
Education, awareness rising is the role of schools, NGO’s
Who should deal with it?rough-and-readylocal effects
Lot of small, independent projects regularity is missingmissing of coordinationdo not fit to national
programs
Different motivation in the popularization of cyclingSmall villages Budapest, bigger cities
CYCLE TRANSPORT
Awareness raising
It has most significant role than we think about it!!!
Suggestions:
He role of coordination institutionsGuidelines to the sleg-governmentsPropagandize the good practices Continuity, predictabilityStrengthen education
Development of urban-suburban public transportation system for sustainable urban development
The urban-suburban public transportation system plays down in the development of the transport
Amount contracted between 2004-2013 (billion HUF)
NFÜ Térképtér, 2013. 04. 11.
792,30
310,55
210,74
83,92
33,49
79,67
328,15
Road construction Rail projects (non-suburban)
DBR (underground M4) Other public transport on rails and tracks
Public transport on road Other transportation
Requirements of the new projects: sustainability and efficiency
• Financial and environmental sustainability and efficiency:– Environmental sustainability: focusing on zero
emission– Financial sustainability:
• Because of the decreasing of the resources, care must be taken to the most effective projects:
• 1. reach of minimum requierments of services,• 2. above this limit supporting the most effective projects. • Instead of the investment approach in any way, less
projects, minimal investments.• Prefer the development of services with more soft
components (awareness raising of the potential passangers and the staff too)
Requirements of the new projects: focusing on the passengers
• Focusing on the passengers:– Covering of the total travel-chain – Integrated development projects:
• Managing the travel and urban development projects together,• Provide the interchanges between the transport modes• Integrating the public transport firms• making proposals on the formation of the effective institutional
background in NTS (eg. common local fares).
– Intensification of the service-character:• Aims: make the car-users to change and keeping the current
passengers• „selling” the public transport:• marketing is needed!• projects have to contain awarness raising component.
Best practice – example of city of Szeged
Integrated, strategic way of thinking
Applied instruments Strategic aimsOther types of project
elements could be linked to transportation projects
Other types of projects could contain transport elements if it is possible and necessary
Supporting zero emission transport modes
Schedule discussions, bus stops development (quality of service and security of passengers)
Creating public transport associations
This is how to increase the popularity of public transport
Moving towards a sustainable transport system
Territorial spacing up: equal opportunities in worse traffic status settlements too
No progress so far
Projects in Szeged
• Development of tracks: zero emission– 2 projects for construncting and reconstructing tracks of trams and
trollybus ways,– joins: traffic management, informations for passengers, bicycle path,
road and pavement reconstruction.• Development of terminals: integration
– 2 subcenters with terminals in the city,– Safe and comfortable waiting, informations for passengers, rest room
for bus drivers, upgrading the cityscape.• Development of bus stops in the suburbs: territorial spacing up
– 5 projects in 15 settlements,– Bus shelters, cycle storages, speedometers, benches, plants.
• Urban development projects: integration– Biopolis park: transport elements integrated to a mainly R+D project– Integrated urban development: tram track, bicycle paths besides urban
renewal.
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