Urban Transport Benchmarking Initiative

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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

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Year two participating cities
Six cities in year two Aalborg, Brescia,
Copenhagen, Glasgow, Malmö, Prague.
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Modal share and cordon count
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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

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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

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Cycling WG. Year 1 highlights Continued

• Links to indicators used in other projects
• Useful results achieved in the timescale

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Cycling WG. Year 2 highlights

• More cities added to the group
• More detailed work on Yr 1 indicators

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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

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Looking for new cities to join

• Currently have 5 cities, but more would be
  welcomed.
• Welcome to London and The Hague who joined the
  group for year three
• Have approached other cities and projects there
  is interest

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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

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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

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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

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Ideas for new ways to work Continued

• Focus on more cities rather than more indicators
• Log useful indicators for which data does not
  exist

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Want to know more?

• Contact Katherine McWilliam
• (working group rapporteur)
• E-mail katherine.mcwilliam_at_ttr-ltd.com
• Phone [phone]