In advance of World Bicycle Day (3 June 2022) we have collated various resources including research, webinars, case studies, podcasts and much more to ensure you are up to speed on all matters cycling in the sector. Whether you want to gain CPD, understand best practice in infrastructure, get ahead of the challenges faced and find their solutions or fine tune your engagement strategy we have the information you need.
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Acknowledging the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that it is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transportation, fostering environmental stewardship and health, the General Assembly decided to declare 3 June World Bicycle Day.
United Nations https://www.un.org/en/observances/bicycle-day
Sustainable Transport - Planning for Cycling
The aim of this course is to introduce the benefits of cycling, its potential for growth, the legal and regulatory context, and principles for provision.
Written by: Professor John Parkin, Professor of Transport Engineering, Deputy Director Centre for Transport and Society, University of the West of England.
This course is equivalent to 1.5 CPD hours
Cumbria County Council - Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Planning
23 June 2022, 12:30-13:30
This webinar, organised by CIHT North East & Cumbria, will give an overview of Cumbria County Council’s Cycling and Walking Programme, as well as providing national and local context and guidance.
Speaker: Nicola Parker Senior Programme Manager Cycling and Walking at Cumbria County Council
Active Travel
CIHT has gathered information about delivering active travel schemes including signposting to relevant guidance and research on the impacts and benefits of active travel. The information is primarily focussed on the process of implementing schemes, including consultation and engagement.
The first part of the page explains some context of delivering active travel schemes and signposts relevant guidance. The last part of the page contains relevant research showing what impacts active travel schemes can have, as well as research on how to deliver and engage with the public in relation to active travel.
The information has been collected to support professionals working with delivery of active travel schemes with information to make the case for active travel as well as information on engaging with local communities. During the pandemic we saw how local authority officers can face challenge when trying to implement active travel schemes, both from councillors and local residents, and being able to communicate the reasoning behind schemes, including the evidence and research that has led to it, is often an important part of engaging and responding to the challenge. Failure to do so can result in pushback making implementation more difficult and resource intensive.
Included are also case studies showing how different authorities have managed the implementation of active travel schemes.
2020 Transport for London: Mini-Hollands Programme
Judge's Comments
"An outstanding programme that shows that a substantial level of funding for walking and cycling can transform boroughs. TfL played an instrumental role in the scheme ensuring high quality through implementing a strict design review process that allowed TfL design experts to give feedback on borough’s designs. The schemes in the programme were associated with 44 more minutes past-week active travel -enough to have a significant impact on the health of residents in Mini-Holland boroughs."
The Royal Borough of Kingston: Go Cycle Kingston Town Centre
Judge's Comments
"The scheme successfully devised a high-quality cycling framework across the whole borough which faced challenges of very high levels of congestion. The scheme has encouraged neighbouring local authorities to plan similar schemes using lesson learned and good practice from Go Cycle Kingston.
Transport for London: London temporary schemes response to Coronavirus
Transport for London and London's Boroughs worked closely to deliver a rapid response to the pandemic, with a programme of temporary cycle routes, low traffic neighbourhoods, school streets and social distancing interventions to provide space for social distancing and enable more walking and cycling.
2022
Transforming cities for cycling with powerful data insights, by See.Sense - 8 April 2022
Hull Cycle Lanes Rollout - 23 March 2022
CIHT Scotland - Cycling by Design 2021 - 13 January 2022
2021
CIHT North East & Cumbria: Presentation on The Tees Valley Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan - 13 May 2021
The 2020 Cycling LTN and Greater Manchester’s Bee Network: what good cycle infrastructure looks like in 2021 - 22 March 2021
Cycle Freight - 16 March 2021
Active Mobility from Ramboll Ireland: The Copenhagen Story - 22 February 2021
George Street to the Meadows Active Travel Improvements - 12 January 2021
2020
LTN 1/20 An Overview and Discussion on cycle route design and RSA 7 December 2020
The politics of active travel - Councillor Julian Bell
In 2020 as covid took hold and one-third of the planets population went into lockdown, some cities across the world rapidly rolled-out provision for active travel – re-allocating road space to allow for people to walk and cycle - helping, for instance key workers get safety to hospitals…. and so on – but these changes sometimes incurred strong emotions from the public and became politically charged.
To explore the politics of active travel, the podcast features an interview with Councillor Julian Bell, the former Labour leader of Ealing Council for 11 years and Board member of Transport for London.
Active travel and transport - post pandemic futures - Professor Rachel Aldred
Whilst we are in the midst of a global pandemic, today we explore measures for how – potentially – me might help address another one. Inactivity has been described as a pandemic due to the health impacts of people not being active – and therefore needs to be addressed.
Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster and Director of the Active Travel Academy helps to unpick how we might solve this with increasing cycling levels. This is an important time to discuss given thoughts being given to what world might emerge out of Covid-19.
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