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Urban Transport Benchmarking Initiative – year three. CYCLING WORKING GROUP Experts: Oliver Hatch & Pascal van Den Noort Velo Mondial Rapporteur: Katherine McWilliam, TTR. Year two – participating cities. Six cities in year two; Aalborg, Brescia, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Malmö, & Prague.
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Urban Transport Benchmarking Initiative – year three CYCLING WORKING GROUP Experts: Oliver Hatch & Pascal van Den Noort Velo Mondial Rapporteur: Katherine McWilliam, TTR
Year two – participating cities Six cities in year two; Aalborg, Brescia, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Malmö, & Prague.
Now on to year three… Four parts to this presentation • Results of what we have done Yr 1& Yr2 • Looking for new cities to join the group • Ideas for new themes • Ideas for ways to work
Cycling WG. Year 1 highlights • A lot of work done in a short time to get the group going • Research questions were: • mainstreaming cycling • role of infrastructure & marketing • barriers to cycling
Cycling WG. Year 1 highlights Continued… • Links to indicators used in other projects • Useful results achieved in the timescale
Cycling WG. Year 2 highlights • More cities added to the group • More detailed work on Yr 1 indicators
Cycling WG. Year 2 highlights Continued… • Research questions: • Marketing • measuring effects of policies • integrating cycling with public transport modes • Joint working group meeting with PT • Desire to build on this in year 3
Looking for new cities to join • Currently have 5 cities, but more would be welcomed. • Welcome to London and The Hague who are joining the group for year three • Have approached other cities and projects & there is interest
Ideas for new themes & actions • Accept proposed new year 3 theme of ‘cycling as a component of joined-up urban transport journeys (cycle-walk-PT)’ • Develop cycle-public transport joint indicators, on intermodality, best practise and practical ways to work together
Ideas for new themes & actions Continued… • Develop our work on marketing • Develop a model cycle policy monitoring & evaluation template • Develop potential for school travel plans
Ideas for new ways to work • Agree with proposal to have a joint site visit/s with the PT working group • Also invite PT operators to join cycling WG and its meetings with a view to improving ‘joined-up journeys’
Ideas for new ways to work Continued… • Focus on more cities rather than more indicators • Log useful indicators for which data does not exist
Want to know more? Contact Katherine McWilliam (working group rapporteur) E-mail: katherine.mcwilliam@ttr-ltd.com Phone: +44 (0) 115 941 1141