Workshop TR 1.3,  Monday 19 June 16.00 - 17.30
Bicycle facilities as incentive for bicycle use
Andrej Cvar, Transportation Planner-General Manager, City studio, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Goran Jovanovich, Transportation Planner, City studio, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Cycling Parking Facility Model

In bicycle storage study we have tried to establish the influence of cycle storage on increase of cyclists in modal split. In order to establish the effect of cycle storage, detailed treatment of research area is required. Research study was based on practical and theoretical methods, including new method of finding and analysing with the help of GIS tools and new technologies of research surveys. Study also presents possibilities of Internet or e-mail surveys research. It includes compact method of analysis of existing state and determination as well as error abolishment and monitoring of our study case, which was analysed during one year period, partially proofed and compared to a new found situation in a following year. Our goal was to present a new approach to solving a problem of cycle storage facilities in urban areas as shown in our research of city centre of Slovenian capital. By showing the treatment of macro and micro city centre area we have proven assumption of traffic (cycling) infrastructure's influence on percentage of cyclists in modal split. Based on the theoretical research study we have estimated the amount of increase in cycling traffic that could be expected in the research area in case of partial or total improvement of conditions at cycle storage facilities.

Wolfgang Bohle, Planner, Planungsgemeinschaft Verkehr, Germany

Attractiveness of bicycle-facilities for the users and evaluation of measures for the cycle-traffic

In a recent research project for the german ministry of transports, an investigation was made on the elements of a bicycle network and on the bicycle-facilities that are most attractive for the cyclists. The elements that the interviewed cyclists regard as positive or as negative may describe criterias of subjective attractiveness. An evaluation concept based on these user-criterias, and integrating other criterias that are important for the authorities running the bicycle-infrastructure, may serve to set priorities and to assess route-variants or alternative bicycle-facilities.

In general, major-roads for the cyclists are the most unattractive element of cycle networks. Already at rather low volumes of motorized traffic, for the cyclists it gets important to be separated from the car traffic. Built cycle-tracks are, with regard to the feeling of subjective safety, for the users slightly more attractive than marked cycle-lanes on the level of the carriageway.

Minor roads offer a much higher attractiveness, but this may be impaired by elements of speed-reduction for car-traffic. The most attractive element of networks are cycle-tracks with an own alignment, as e.g. in green areas, but they may cause a lack in social safety.