This book offers a critical examination of existing cycling structures and the current policy and practices used to promote cycling in Europe.
Author: Koglin, Till
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447345169
Category: Political Science
Page: 224
View: 700
This book examines existing cycling structures and the current policy and practices used to promote cycling in Europe. An international range of contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the complex cultural politics of infrastructural provision and interrogate the pervasive bias against cyclists in city planning and transport systems across the globe. Infrastructural planning is revealed to be an intensely political act and its meaning variable according to larger political processes and contexts. The book also considers questions surrounding safety and risk, urban space wars and sustainable futures, connecting this to broader questions about citizenship and justice in contemporary cities.
This book examines existing cycling structures and the current policies and practices used to promote cycling in Europe.
Author: Till Koglin
Publisher:
ISBN: 1447345177
Category:
Page: 224
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This book examines existing cycling structures and the current policies and practices used to promote cycling in Europe. Its interdisciplinary analysis considers the cultural politics of infrastructural provision and connects this to questions of sustainability, citizenship and justice in cities.
The book makes clear that successful promotion of city cycling depends on coordinating infrastructure, programs, and government policies.
Author: John Pucher
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262304993
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 416
View: 726
A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics. Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone. It reports on cycling trends and policies in cities in North America, Europe, and Australia, and offers information on such topics as cycling safety, cycling infrastructure provisions including bikeways and bike parking, the wide range of bike designs and bike equipment, integration of cycling with public transportation, and promoting cycling for women and children. City Cycling emphasizes that bicycling should not be limited to those who are highly trained, extremely fit, and daring enough to battle traffic on busy roads. The chapters describe ways to make city cycling feasible, convenient, and safe for commutes to work and school, shopping trips, visits, and other daily transportation needs. The book also offers detailed examinations and illustrations of cycling conditions in different urban environments: small cities (including Davis, California, and Delft, the Netherlands), large cities (including Sydney, Chicago, Toronto and Berlin), and “megacities” (London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo). These chapters offer a closer look at how cities both with and without historical cycling cultures have developed cycling programs over time. The book makes clear that successful promotion of city cycling depends on coordinating infrastructure, programs, and government policies.
Explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport.
Author: John Parkin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 9781780522982
Category: Political Science
Page: 300
View: 562
Explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. This title examines the cultural development of cycling in countries with high use and the differences in use between different sub-groups of the population.
Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility Zack Furness ... While it is debatable
whether the construction of an expansive cycling infrastructure would have
necessarily encouraged more people in the United States to ride bikes (though
studies ...
Author: Zack Furness
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592136141
Category: Political Science
Page: 344
View: 871
The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
ABSTRACT: This paper reports on an exploratory study on the relationship
between BIM and sustainability in transport infrastructure in the perspective of
government. A comparison is made between the political situation in Europe and
China.
Author: Jaap Bakker
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781498777018
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 438
View: 356
This volume contains the papers presented at IALCCE2016, the fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2016), to be held in Delft, The Netherlands, October 16-19, 2016. It consists of a book of extended abstracts and a DVD with full papers including the Fazlur R. Khan lecture, keynote lectures, and technical papers from all over the world. All major aspects of life-cycle engineering are addressed, with special focus on structural damage processes, life-cycle design, inspection, monitoring, assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation, life-cycle cost of structures and infrastructures, life-cycle performance of special structures, and life-cycle oriented computational tools. The aim of the editors is to provide a valuable source for anyone interested in life-cycle of civil infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and practitioners from all areas of engineering and industry.
Author: International Transport ForumPublish On: 2013-12-19
We observe that the more separate linear cycling infrastructure that exists in a
given country, the fewer recorded injury accidents involving at least one cyclist.
The date of appearance of separate linear cycling infrastructure (and of course
also ...
Author: International Transport Forum
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9789282105955
Category:
Page: 248
View: 271
This report of the International Transport Forum's Cycling Safety Working Group monitors international trends in cycling, safety and policy, and explores options that may help decision makers design safe environments for cycling.
... according to a June 2011 study from the Political Economy Research Institute
in Amherst, Massachusetts, titled “Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A
National Study of Employment Impacts.” Researchers found that “bicycling infrastructure ...
Author: David Suzuki
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 9781553659969
Category: Nature
Page: 288
View: 331
In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes. In doing so, Suzuki shows that understanding the causes—and recognizing that everything in nature, including us, is interconnected—is crucial to restoring hope for a better future. The solutions are there, he argues; we just need the will to act together to bring about change. Everything Under the Sun delves into such provocative topics as the difference between human hunters and other predators, the lessons we must learn from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the subsequent meltdown of the nuclear reactors, and our dependence on the sun for all of our food and energy—indeed for our very lives. Suzuki also considers the many positive steps people are making today. And he doesn't shy away from controversial opinion, especially when it comes to taking on those who stand in the way of resolving serious issues like climate change. Underpinning it all is the recognition that we are blessed to live on a planet that gives us everything we require to live, under a sun that gives us the energy we need to produce food and transport and modern conveniences. But we must protect what we have if we want to survive and prosper.
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil
Engineering (IALCCE'12), Vienna, Austria, October ... Life-Cycle and
Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems contains the lectures and papers
presented at the Third ...
Author: Alfred Strauss
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780203103364
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 516
View: 639
Life-Cycle and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems contains the lectures and papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2012) held in one of Vienna‘s most famous venues, the Hofburg Palace, October 3rd-6th, 2012. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts (516 pp) and a DVD-ROM
The civil infrastructure systems of the world represent a huge investment for both
governments and taxpayers. The life-cycle benefits of this investment must be
maximized to ensure that the needs of our society are optimally met, taking into ...
Author: Hyo-Nam Cho
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780415413565
Category: Science
Page: 319
View: 691
This bookcontains papers covering a wide range of studies on life-cycle performance analysis, design, maintenance, monitoring, management, and cost of civil infrastructure systems. Topics include reliability and optimization as design basis tools, monitoring systems, life-cycle cost analysis and management, bridge management systems, and quality control acceptance criteria. The book also discusses seismic reliability analysis of deteriorating structures, bridge inspection strategies, life-cycle cost analysis of structures on a network level, optimal risk-based design of infrastructures, updating bridge reliability using load monitoring data and statistics of extremes, rehabilitation of bridges, and lifetime analysis and structural repair of civil infrastructure systems.
His current research investigates the politics of urban cycling with specific
interests in the tension between cycling as a new form of urbanized conspicuous
consumption and social movements focused on cycling infrastructure. Ekers
received ...
Author: Pierre Hamel
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9781442663572
Category: Political Science
Page: 384
View: 963
North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing set of global challenges. In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world’s suburban spaces and everyday life within them. With contributors from ten countries on five continents, this collection covers the full breadth of contemporary developments in suburban governance. Examining the classic North American model of suburbia, contemporary alternatives in Europe and Latin America, and the emerging suburbanisms of Africa and Asia, Suburban Governance offers a strong analytical introduction to a vital topic in contemporary urban studies.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of TransportPublish On: 2004-11-29
Via the BMP, the government gave significant financial support to the
improvement of cycling facilities and conditions in line with the objectives of the
SVV2. ... for bicycle traffic, sent a clear signal that the Ministry of Transport
believed bicycle infrastructure to be of importance. ... The first, “Cycling into the
21st century”, contains the political aims for bicycle traffic in Denmark, formulated
jointly by the National ...
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9789282103296
Category:
Page: 94
View: 325
National Policies to Promote Cycling brings together the experience of 21 countries and 7 municipalities in developing and implementing policies and measures to promote cycling as a means of travel.
In some cases such rides sure at the local level to maintain and improve
existhave also focused public attention on the needs ing elements of the cycling infrastructure , such as of cyclists and helped force a shift toward more bridge
access ...
Author: Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041531187X
Category: Architecture
Page: 348
View: 989
Bringing together classic readings from a wide variety of sources, this key book investigates how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use and equity planning. Section introductions outline the major themes, whilst the editors' introductions to the individual writings explain their interest and significance to wider debates. Additional sections present twenty-four case studies of real-world sustainable urban planning examples, sustainability planning exercises, and further reading. Providing background in theory, practical application, and vision, in a clear, accessible format, The Sustainable Urban Development Reader is an essential resource for students, professionals, and indeed anyone interested in the future of urban environments.
Hugh McClintock, University of Nottingham 3.1 Introduction The previous chapter
discussed the changes in official policies on cycling, with particular reference to
the provision of physical infrastructure and, especially, special facilities for ...
Author: H McClintock
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9781855738690
Category: Nature
Page: 344
View: 177
Successful cycling planning depends on combining improvements to infrastructure with education. There are chapters examining both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world, including such topics as changes to existing road infrastructure and the integration of cycling with public transport. Since education is a critical element in cycling planning, contributors also consider such topics as developing healthy travel habits in the young and ways of promoting cycling. A number of chapters look at the complex relationship between cars and cycling, discussing how roads can be successfully shared between these two modes of transport. With its blend of practical experience and suggestions for improvement, Planning for cycling is essential reading for urban planners, environmental groups and those researching in this area. Describes how creating an effective policy for cycling involves combining improvements to infrastructure with education Chapters examine both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world Examines the complex relationship between cars and cycling and discusses how roads can be successfully shared between these two modes of transport
Author: Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory FacilityPublish On: 2003
Important measures include : creating autonomous boards that appoint
managers for terms that do no coincide with the political cycle , broadening water
company obligations to include asset management and new investment , and
retention of ...
Sustainable poverty reduction and equitable economic development depend on the solid foundation of the rule of law. These reforms are underpinned by legal reform, whether it be to increase efficiency in business transactions, benefit from globalization policies, improve the way governments deliver essential services, or facilitate access to a more efficient and effective justice system. Internationally, rules and frameworks of cooperation are required in order to confront new global threats, such as communicable diseases, attacks on the environmental commons, destabilizing capital movements, and money laundering. The World Bank Legal Review, the first in a new annual series, offers a combination of legal scholarship, lessons from experience, legal developments, and recent reports on the many ways in which the application of law and the improvement of justice systems promote poverty reduction, economic development, and the rule of law. This book, produced by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank, is a publication for policymakers and their legal advisers, attorneys and other professionals involved in the area of international development.
This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation.
Author: Peter Cox
Publisher: University of Chester
ISBN: 9781908258113
Category: Social Science
Page: 214
View: 562
Cycling studies is a rapidly growing area of investigation across the social sciences, reflecting and engaged with rapid transformations of urban mobility and concerns for sustainability. This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation. Its international contributors focus on cases studies in the UK and the Netherlands, and on cycling subcultures that cross national boundaries. By considering cycling through the lens of culture it addresses issues of diversity and complexity, both past and present. The authors cross the boundaries of academia and professional engagement, linking theory and practice, to shed light on the very real processes of change that are reshaping our mobility.
Most projects are expected tohave a useful life in excess of 30 years but
unhelpfully governmental investment decisions are strongly influencedby shorttermpolitical expediency. Mega projects transcend thethree to fiveyear political cycleand ...
Author: Anthony Holmes
Publisher: Harriman House Limited
ISBN: 9780857194442
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 50
View: 500
Infrastructure projects represent one of the largest asset classes globally with the estimated cost of potential new projects planned to 2030 totalling US$70 trn. The sector splits into social infrastructure which is the group of projects that support urban living and economic infrastructure that, following the recession that began 2007/8, has become the global economic methodology du jour to stimulate economic growth. However, unless the host state has surplus financial resources, as has China and the Gulf states, large scale investment may be not be affordable given the capacity constraints and fragility of the international capital markets. Moreover the majority of large complex infrastructure projects are delivered late and over budget. Whatever the initial estimates and plans, sponsors face project distress usually in the last quarter of the development with budget increases ranging from 40% to over 100%. Many major projects are socially necessary but sponsors will fail if they persist in trying to attract investment by pretending that projects are financially viable using the criteria employed by commercial concerns. A new methodology is required. This book explores the reasons these large projects rarely conform to their original plan and what can be done about it. It also examines how the trend to greater complexity will exacerbate this problem unless a new methodology is adopted. The book concludes that unless more realism is introduced developed nations will be unable to renew their infrastructure and developing nations will not be able to establish the foundation of a modern economy. The author is a director of the Institute for Infrastructure Studies and consults globally.
Cycling can be emblematic of political dissent, a signifier of environmental
responsibility and a rejection of ... of the cargo bike and the staging of Tweed
Runs and “die-ins”, as well as the growing clamour for urban cycling infrastructure, are, ...
Author: Carlton Reid
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781610916882
Category: Architecture
Page: 376
View: 718
Cyclists were written out of highway history in the 1920s and 1930s by the all-powerful motor lobby: Roads Were Not Built For Cars tells the real story, putting cyclists center stage again. Not that the book is only about cyclists. It will also contains lots of automotive history because many automobile pioneers were cyclists before becoming motorists. A surprising number of the first car manufacturers were also cyclists, including Henry Ford. Some carried on cycling right through until the 1940s. One famous motor manufacturing pioneer was a racing tricycle rider to his dying day.
Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by ...
Author: Evan Friss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226211077
Category: History
Page: 288
View: 374
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old. The Cycling City is a sharp history of the bicycle’s rise and fall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, American cities were home to more cyclists, more cycling infrastructure, more bicycle friendly legislation, and a richer cycling culture than anywhere else in the world. Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by the bicycle. When cities were chaotic and filthy, bicycle advocates imagined an improved landscape in which pollution was negligible, transportation was silent and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country were blurred. Friss argues that when the utopian vision of a cycling city faded by the turn of the century, its death paved the way for today’s car-centric cities—and ended the prospect of a true American cycling city ever being built.
Author: Great Britain. Department for TransportPublish On: 2008
It is hoped that, by bringing together relevant advice in a single document, this guide will make it easier for local authorities to decide what provision, if any, is required to encourage more people to cycle.
Author: Great Britain. Department for Transport
Publisher: Stationery Office/Tso
ISBN: 011553024X
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 60
View: 748
Encouraging more people to cycle is increasingly being seen as a vital part of any local authority plan to tackle congestion, improve air quality, promote physical activity and improve accessibility. This design guide brings together and updates guidance previously available in a number of draft Local Transport Notes and other documents. Although the focus is the design of cycle infrastructure, parts of its advice are equally appropriate to improving conditions for pedestrians. Individual chapters cover: general design parameters; signing issues; network management; reducing vehicle speeds on cycle routes; bus and tram routes; cycle lanes; off-road cycle routes; junctions; cycle track crossings; cycle parking; public transport integration. A list of references and an appendix of related publications complete the book. It is hoped that, by bringing together relevant advice in a single document, this guide will make it easier for local authorities to decide what provision, if any, is required to encourage more people to cycle.
