Recommendations

Cycling recommendations

Cities all over the world are facing challenges related to the effects of decades of car-oriented city planning: congestion, air pollution, noise, physical inactivity, CO2 emissions and crowded and unattractive public spaces. Cycling is a key component in meeting these challenges. The Cycling Embassy of Denmark gives its recommendations as to how and why cycling should be an integral part of urban mobility.

By Cycling Embassy of Denmark

You can download our recommendations in different versions here:

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Overview: Click here to download

Data

GPS data from cars shows cycling potential

Every year, Danish municipalities make major cycling infrastructure investment decisions with the aim of persuading more people to swap the car for the bicycle. Here, a solid foundation of data is crucial to targeting investment where it will add most value. In this context, GPS data from car travel…

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About Cycling Danish Solutions

Cycling – Danish Solutions

"Cycling - Danish Solutions" is the Cycling Embassy of Denmark's online knowledge bank about cycling in Denmark. The site covers a wide variety of topics ranging from cost-benefit analyses of bicycle traffic to children’s cycling, ITS solutions for cyclists, bicycle parking facilities, bicycle touri…

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Data

Build a knowledge base about cycling

You need a good database if you want to make the right decisions. This also applies to bicycle planning since a knowledge base containing different types of data solidifies the decision making process not only for bicycle planning, but for general urban and traffic planning as well. Author: Maja…

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