Urban cycling-development - Lars Stromgren (Minsk, 2017)

1. ECF gratefully acknowledges
financial support from the European
Commission.
How European cities develop cycling.
Urban concepts and national programs.
Lars Strömgren
ECF Vice-President
Bike conference of Belarusian cities
Minsk, 12 May 2017

6. In a city with many cyclists, why do they ride?
56%
Copenhageners’ reason for cycling to and from work (multiple answers)
City of Copenhagen
37%
29%
26%
12%
9%
5%
it’s faster
more convenient
healthy
inexpensive
well-being, good start to day
new job, relocation
environmental concerns

7. 7

8. is for
successful cities

9. Paris, Left bank expressway, 2012

10. Paris, Left bank expressway, 2014

11. London: « Cycle Superhighway », V. 2.0

15. Dutch Cycling Embassy
HARDWARE

16. Intricate networks of fast routes
and neighborhood routes

22. BICYCLE PARKING

23. Bicycle and train: a good combination!

24. 24
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

25. Software
The human side of mobility
Behavioral & cultural change
Drivers awareness
Traffic & Urban design from human perspective
How to communicate & promote
Dutch Cycling Embassy

26. Orgware
The cooperation process needed between all the actors involved
How to organise your planning apparatus
Integration of cycling in urban & mobility planning
Dynamic plans for long term planning
Create critical collaborative atmosphere between different stakeholders
Ways of financing
Finding the right arguments
Dutch Cycling Embassy

27. Getting from A to B: Today
A B
A B
A B

28. Getting from A to B: Future
A B
A B
A B

32. –Our city isn’t Copenhagen…
– In the 1970's neither was Copenhagen

33. What Can Be Said and What Can Be Done
Talk and decisions follow rules from what can be said, actions
follow rules for what can be done, and we cannot expect that
these rules will always be consistent. There are things that we
can say but not do, and there are other things we can do but
not say.
Brunsson, Nils (2007). The consequences of decision-making.
Oxford: Oxford University Press

34. Rules
Consequence
Imitation Experiment
4 Logics
Holmblad Brunsson, Karin & Brunsson, Nils (2014). Beslut. 1. uppl.
Stockholm: Liber

38. Political support
Transport Ministers call upon European Commission to develop ‘an
EU level strategic document on
cycling’
[Declaration of Luxembourg, October 2015, Informal Council Meeting during
Luxembourg EU Presidency];
Also support from European Parliament and Committee of the Region!

40. EU Cycling Strategy
Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, to
ECF in June 2016:
“I need to see the content and
stakeholder support!”

41. Policy objectives
1) Cycling should be an equal partner in the mobility system. Users pay for the full external
costs of motorised transport while the societal benefits of active mobility are fully taken into
account in transport planning and investment decisions. In addition, it will show the path
towards prioritising cycling over individual motorised transport.
2) Cycle use in the EU will increase by 50% in the decade from 2019/2020 – 2030. Its share
in the transport modal split will be at least 12 % which means 0.48 cycle trips per person per
day as an average.
3) The rates (per km cycled) for fatalities and seriously injured among cyclists will be halved
in the decade 2019/2020 – 2030.
4) The EU should double its investments in cycle projects to 3 billion Euro during the
Multiannual Financial Framework 2021 – 2027 (up from 1.5 billion Euro in 2013 - 2020) and
aim for another doubling to 6 billion Euro during the 2028 – 2034 period.

42. Content
3 main parts:
Chapter 1 and 2: EU and global policy goals, benefits of cycling
and added value of EU action in growing cycling
Chapter 3 – 9: Cycling Implementation Plan
Chapter 10 and 11: From Planning to Practice: Implementation,
Monitoring and Evaluation

43. 1: The Policy context, benefits of cycling
and the added value of EU action

44. 2: The current status of cycling in Europe
and potential for growth by 2030

45. 3. Behavioural change

46. 4. Infrastructure

47. 5. Vehicle and technical standards

48. 6. Multimodality and ITS

49. 7. Funding and Fiscal

50. 8. Industrial policy

51. 9. EU as a global player

52. 10. Governance

53. 11. Monitoring and evaluation

54. What is going to happen
• June 16, 2017: Publication and public hand-over of EU Cycling
Strategy to EU Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, at
Velo-city 2017 conference in Arnhem-Nijmegen.
• June 28, 2017: Public Benelux event at Permanent
Representation of the Netherlands to the EU. Introduction of EU
Cycling Strategy to EU audience

55. Overall campaign objective
‘EU Cycling Strategy’ for the
Work Programme of the European
Commission 2018

56. ECF gratefully acknowledges
financial support from the European
Commission.