This document summarizes a presentation on improving cycling culture in cities through the promotion of intermodality and bicycle stations. The presentation discusses how intermodality is key to sustainable transport by enabling the combination of transport modes. It also examines bike and ride systems, requirements for interchange bicycle stations, and examples of best practices. The goal is to establish cycling as an integral part of urban mobility through integrated infrastructure, services, bicycle parking, station design, and rental options.
1. International workshop
Improving Cycling Culture in Cities
February 26th-27th, 2010
Tczew - POLAND
Interchange Bicycle Stations:
Promotion of intermodality
Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Henkel
Bremen Tczew
Venice
Grenoble Zagreb
Presto is supported by
2. Content
1. Intermodality: The key to sustainable transport
2. Bike and Ride
3. Facts and Figures
4. Implementation
5. Requirements to interchange bicycle stations
6. Developing a master plan
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3. Intermodality is urban lifestyle
The Demand for Mobiliy is growning.
• Number of trips
• Trip distribution
…as a result of urban sprawl, increasing car density
and diversification of lifestyle
…developing society needs new mobility culture
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4. Intermodality and car density
Car availabiliy grows instantly
Source: National Environment Agency, Germany 2009
Number of cars per 1.000 inhabitants (complete)
Germany
France
Denmark
Norway
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Turkey
Poland 195 314 +61%
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5. Intermodality is urban lifestyle
http://www.medienzentrum-siegen.de/heupel/mobilitaetserziehung/gif/800/5_platzbedarf.jpg
Growing volume of car traffic means
• Infrastructure demand (high level of investment)
• Noise
• Airpollution
• Greenhousegas emissions
• Decreasing life quality in the city
• Demand of Space
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6. Intermodality is urban lifestyle
Demonstration in
Berlin:
Space needed for
car vs. bike
Reference: Velokonzept Saade GmbH, Presentation June 2009, Berlin.
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7. Intermodality is quality of life
… Valuable space of urban environment
But we should not try to ban car traffic at all !
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8. Intermodality for sustainable transport
Enable Ecomobility
Limited availability and practicability
The combination of different modes enables higher usability
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9. Intermodal Mobility
… needs well-matched transport systems:
• Operation: system compatibility, pricing, ticketing, timetables
• Marketing
• Information
• Interchange stations
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10. Intermodality:
The key to sustainable mobility
Catchment area and travelling time
10-minute-radius
Action scope of a dwelling site
700 m by foot; 2 km by bike
Catchment area of a station –
700 m by foot; 2 km by bike
Reference: „Bike & Ride“, Diegelmann/ Moser 1993
Saving time = strength of cycling
Advantages until trip distance of 5 km
Contain strength and supply
Raise attractivity
„Suburbanisierung, Zersiedlung Urban Sprawl“, Casestudy Budapest, Final Report, GS 00/01
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11. Bike and Ride
Advantages Problems
• Compatible for city and • Comport (infrastructure,
environment catchment area, tarif
system, parking facilities)
• Fast and flexible
• topography
• cheap
• Safety risk
• Physical activity and health
• Weather dependency
• Reduces stress
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12. Bike and Ride
Three Options of using
• Pre-transport: cycling from starting point to the station
• Post-transport: cycling from station to a target (work, shopping,
school)
eigther by taking the own bike (parked there) or a rent bike
• Complete transport: carrying bicycle from staring point to the
target by using public transport
+ highly flexible
- big request to the quality of the station and the transport
vehicle
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13. On-site training: Tczew
Bike and Ride
Interchange Bicycle Stations
From the Programme of activation of cycling in the Tri-city
Tymon Galewski: Programme of activation of cycling in the Tri-city. A presentation
prepared in 2005 Map 2: Range of a 10 minute cycling and walking journeys on the map
of the Tri-city. Source: ibid.
14. 5 years ago…
Who would have thought about cycling in Paris?
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15. Cycling in Cities
Cyclinc culture in France has changed…
Lyon – May 2005
• 2000 bikes, 4000 in 2008.
• Success – 5 to 8 daily uses per day
Paris - July 2007
• Today, 20600 bikes and 1450 stations (1 station
every 200 m or 300 m).
• First ½ H : 0 Euro, Additional ½ H : 1 Euro
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16. Implementation of cycling cuture
• How can we reach
the change?
• How to avoid these
deterrent images?
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17. Implementation
Key questions for the group work:
What are the biggest barriers in
using bike and ride?
What would you wish as a user of
bike and ride? Values …
What is important to the user in
terms of bicycle parking?
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18. Implementation
• Integration in cycle-lane-network
• Services
• Bicyle parking infrastructure
• Design of Interchange Stations
• Carrying bicycle on public transport
• Rental services
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19. Requirements to interchange stations
Depending on average duration time
PRESTO Policy Guide (2010): Infrastructure
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20. Bicycle Parking Infrastrcture
Basic offer for Interchange Bicycle Stations
- flexible in use
- Only use for minor demand
http://www.wien.gv.at/verkehr/radfahren/images
/fahrradabstellanlagen-4-gr.jpg
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21. Good practice
Basic demand
Regional Train Station in Freiburg, Germany
Station of the tramline in Freiburg, Germany
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22. Good practice
Sheltered, secured or supervised
http://www.ziegler-metall.de/
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23. Requirements to stands and racks
• Different oppotunities to lock the bike
• Giving a save standing for the bike
Hinweise zur Gestaltung von Fahrradabstellanlagen
Landeshauptstadt Potsdam:
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24. Requirements to stands and racks
Front wheel racks:
• Different types available, to use for minor demand in safe spots
• Opportunity to lock the bicycle frame!
Giving support on
three different points
of the front wheel
Landeshauptstadt Potsdam:
Hinweise zur Gestaltung von Fahrradabstellanlagen
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25. Requirements to stands and racks
AVOID WHEEL FORK KILLERS!
Examples of inconvinient racks
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26. Bicycle parking station (e.g. multistorey)
- spacious, multi-storey buildings
- best use for major demand
- Weather proof
http://www.zukunft-er.de/2009/09/20/fahrradparkhaus-in-erfurt
- space saving
- mostly free of
charge,
but high
rate of vandalism
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27. Bmultistorey bicycle parking station
Parking station
• entrance via chip card
• Charged at a daily/weekly/monthly
base, useful for commuters
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28. Bicycle Parking Station
• Good example at the mainstatin in Freiburg, Germany
• Additional service available
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29. Bicycle Boxes
• Very often poor design, but save
• Can be rented for charge or deposit
• Adequate for decentralised spots
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30. Design of interchange stations
Kaiserslautern (Germany) mainstation
• Accessible (design for all)
• Information on public transport
• Clear signage
• Bicyle parking
• Bike rental station
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31. Design of interchange stations
• Poor planning:
• High demand for bycicle parking at North Entrance but inconvenient
infrastructure
• Inside the building: three storey of unused space available!
(Kaiserslautern mainstation, North Entrance)
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32. Design of interchange stations
To the city center
• Poor accessibility and orientation
(Tübingen mainstation)
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33. Accessibility - Design for all
Basic facility for public transport stations
Higher requirements in aging society
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34. Design for all
• Accessibility to plattforms
• Various solutions for good
integration of urban design
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36. Information
All necessary
information are
available but
hardly to orientate
for visitors or the
On-trip non-(yet)
customers
Digital real-time information
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37. Developing a master plan
Aim: Establish cycling as an element of urban mobility
• Integration in cycle-lane-network
• Services
• Bicyle parking infrastructure
• Design of Interchange Stations
• Carrying bicycle on public transport
• Rental services
…by providing well-matched transport systems
On-site training: Tczew Interchange Bicycle Stations
38. International workshop
Improving Cycling Culture in Cities
February 26th-27th, 2010
Tczew - POLAND
Thank you for your attention!
More information on:
www.presto-cycling.eu
Bremen Tczew
or contact me at:
andrea.henkel@imove-kl.de
Venice
Grenoble Zagreb
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