BICY Cities & Regions of Bicycles

1. BICY Cities & Regions of Bicycles Seminario sui Fondi Europei, Politica di Coesione e Nuova programmazione 2014-2020 Sabato 28 gennaio 2012 - Bologna Project’s presentation Luciano Natalini

2. Project partnership

3. BICY’s general objectives • The achievement of a higher sustainability in transport • New pan-European rail corridors, new motorways, inter-modal platforms are useful to improve the transport of people and goods on the long distances, not to solve the problems affecting internally the congested areas, especially urban.

4. BICY’s general objectives • Approximately 80% of all urban trips are for distance by less than 5 kilometers • A wide and extensive use of bicycles would give a relevant contribution to reducing traffic congestion, pollution and hence the emission of CO2, with great positive effects on save of time whilst circulating (and parking), improvement of health population and struggle against the climate change.

5. Coherence with CE overall objectives • If the cycling mobility level was assumed as an indicator of cohesion, the CE area wouldn’t clearly be marked by a good level of cohesion and equal implementation of strategic EU policies. • You can find in this part of Europe cities like Ferrara and Graz with respectively more than 30% and 20% (in the city centre) of urban trips made by bicycle, and many others (included territories involved in BICY) which reach a score from 0 to 3-4% (as in the case of Vienna, in spite of a bike infrastructure of approx. 800 km)

6. Specific Objectives • Develop a coherent and integrated urban-regional bike planning, as a strategic component of the entire urban-territorial planning; • Promote cycling as a key component of public transport; • Raise awareness of local decision makers and citizens about the bicycle as an equivalent means of urban transportation and a valid replacement of the car for shorter trips • Promote the bicycle as a modern, ecological and safer means of transportation – especially in the NMS where cycling is often associated with poverty • Strengthen the frontrunners experience, also with new and innovative technologies – and, at the same time – enable policy makers and relevant stakeholders of lagging behind areas to learn from the first; • Generate, share and exchange reproducible new ideas, appraches and experiences; • Provide quantitative evidence through consolidated indicators, that a widespread modal shift toward cycling and walking does indeed improve the quality of (urban) life; • Promote a trans-national cross-fertilisation between similar projects and partnerships working in the same field; • Implement concrete actions, conceived at trans-national level that are then customized locally and thus able to achieve tangible outputs related to new mobility strategies.

7. Knowledge management • Reference sources: • www.eltis.org (1.672 case studies; 300.000 users by month) • www.civitas.eu (cleaner and better transport in cities) • www.bypad.org (bicycle policy audit) • www.epomm.org (European platform on mobility management)

8. BICY work-plan first year (up to 2 March 2011) Start date: 3 March 2010 – Project duration: 36 months WP 1 – Project Management and Co-ordination – Province of Ferrara Kick-off meeting (establishment of SC) – Month 1 Project Management Tools (PCM) – Month 2 Internal communication scheme – Month 2 Subsidy contract – Month 4 Partnership agreement – Month 4 Progress Report 1 – Month 6 1° SC meeting – Month 6 (September 2010) – in Ravenna Payment claim 1 – Month 6 Progress Report 2 – Month 12 Payment claim 2 – Month 12

9. BICY work-plan first year (up to 2 March 2011) • WP 2 – Communication, knowledge management and dissemination FGM-Amor / Graz Media communication & media directory – Month 3 Communication/Dissemination plan - Month 6 Wesite – Month 6 (already done: www.bicy.it) – in English Common dissemination material (1 project brochure; 1logo; 1 CD-Rom with project’s outputs) Month 12 – in English

10. BICY work-plan first year (up to 2 March 2011) • WP 3 – Trans-national harmonisation of experiences in cycling DISTART-University of Bologna • Preparation of a common template (and related methodological guide) – Month 1 • First results of the local SWOT analysis in Ferrara, Ravenna, Kosice, Budaros, Koper/Capodistria, Graz, Velenje, Prague, Erfurt (All reports in English) – Month 6 • SWOT transnational analysis (in English) – Month 9

11. BICY work-plan first year (up to 2 March 2011) • WP 3 – Trans-national harmonisation of experiences in cycling DISTART-University of Bologna • Analysis of good practices (current and past projects within the EU) – 1 report (in English) – month 6 • Study visit (1 day) & training activities (2 days) in Ferrara – month 7 (in combination with the SC meeting of Ravenna) • Interviews with stakeholders – 1 report (in English) – month 9 • Final identification of common indicators – 1 report (in English) – month 12 • Evaluation report on study visit + training activities – 1 report (in English) – month 12

12. BICY work-plan first year (up to 2 March 2011) • WP 4 – Implementation actions & mutual learning Municipality of Velenje • Policy formulation and cycling strategy in Ravenna, Koper/Capodistria, Velenje, Budaros, Kosice, Erfurt (1 bicycle policy paper): month 12 • Monitoring and evaluation of the implementation (via a comon transnational grid of indicators) month 12