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On her bike: why women won’t ride

April 12th 2011

In this article, Rachel Smith addresses a number of perceived and real concerns that prevent or stop people from cycling, especially women. These insights serve as a valuable insight into the psychology of travelers and the various infrastructure and behavioral challenges local governments face in encouraging cycling.

Read the full article via this link.

The Cycle Friendly Workplace Guide

October 25th 2010

This Guide has been developed by The Bicycle Network and Bicycle Victoria to assist employer to encourage cycling to and from the workplace.

The integration of cycle-friendly facilities and practices within your organisation can increase your attractiveness as an employer, boosting your corporate environmental performance and triple bottom line reporting. It can also achieve financial savings through reduced costs of car parking, taxis, car fleets and petrol.

This booklet on cycle-friendly workplaces can help you create a workplace that promotes and practises cycling as a normal part of the working day. It provides information on the incentives and on-site facilities that will encourage staff to ride to work and even to meetings. It gives you ideas and contacts for developing riders’ cycling skills and providing a support network.

Inner Sydney Regional Bicycle Network - Demand Assessment and Economic Appraisal

September 9th 2010

The City of Sydney, in co-operation with fourteen inner Sydney councils, prepared the Inner Sydney Regional Bike Plan that identified enhancements that would provide high quality radial and cross regional cycling links within the inner parts of Sydney. The network is designed to provide greater connectivity and segregation for cyclists between key destinations and along key arterial routes within inner Sydney.

After the preparation of the Bike Plan, further work was undertaken by the City of Sydney to refine the network. To this end, AECOM prepared the Inner Sydney Regional Bicycle Network Implementation Strategy in 2009 which identified an additional 54 kilometres of cycleways or 284 kilometres of cycleways in total.

The attached report will be useful for local government as an example of a strategic view of cycling as transport and provide ideas for infrastructure initiatives to enhance cycling in their regions.

This presentation was provided for the Metropolitan Transport Forum at their September 2010 AGM.

The Victorian Principal Bicycle Network

September 9th 2010

This presentation details progress on the Victorian Government's planned Principle Bicycle Network (PBN), a series of roads upgraded to encourage cycling from destination to destination.

The PBN is designed to facilitate cycling as a transport mode and encourage more people to cycle rather than drive. This presentation advocates for it to be extended and construction made a higher priority.

This presentation was provided for the Metropolitan Transport Forum at their September 2010 AGM.

The Melbourne Bike Share (MBS)

September 9th 2010

This presentation, delivered by Gordon Oakley, General Manager Member and Motoring Services at RACV, provided an overview of the Melbourne Bike Sharing System, the reasons for it, pricing models and performance data for the first 3 months.

This presentation was provided for the Metropolitan Transport Forum at their September 2010 AGM.

Bikeability and the Twenty-Minute Neighborhood

August 23rd 2010

The '20-minute neighbourhood' is the concept of a place wherein daily needs can be met within a walkable area.

With Portland‟s recently adopted goal of increasing bicycle ridership to a 25% mode share by the year 2030, efforts to incorporate bicycles into this concept will become increasingly important.

This paper explores a methodology for assessing a neighbourhood‟s bikeability based on its mix of infrastructure and destinations – essentially the 20-minute neighborhood for bicycles. This methodology can be easily adapted by local government in Victoria.

This research was supported by the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation at Portland State. Find futher details via their website.

The Box hill to Ringwood Rail Trail - a proposal

August 17th 2010

Whitehorse Cyclists Incorporated developed and submitted this proposal for a Box Hill to Ringwood Rail Trail. Whitehorse Cyclists Incorporated have over 200 members and are the largest recreational bicycle club in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

They propose that  such rail trail bike paths could be used as an environmentally friendly means for train travellers to reach their local station and for bike commuters and recreational cyclists to travel along rail lines.

This report is indicative of the public support for cycling, and provides an interesting blueprint that may be interesting to all local governments with rail lines in their municipalities.

National Report: Super Tuesday Bike Counts 2010

July 15th 2010

The data collected in  the 2010 Super Tuesday Bike Count is now available.

Super Tuesday is Australia’s largest visual bike count, coordinated by the Bicycle Network on behalf of participating municipalities across Australia. In Victoria, this is conducted by Bicycle Victoria. The count observes and records rider numbers and movements at key intersections and important commuter routes in the morning peak.

The national summary of the results is attached below. The data resulting from this report is highly useful input for local government in seeing the change over time of rider behaviour and the results of infrastructure changes to this behaviour.

To view the results of a particular municipality,  visit the Bicycle Network website and click on the relevant link in the right hand panel.

Bikeability Toolkit

May 31st 2010

The Bikeability Toolkit includes checklists and resource materials that will help create physical and social environments to encourage cycling. The resource materials include references, guidelines and other resources to assist in the implementation of local bikeability audits and actions.

Local Government is a vital stakeholder in providing supportive environments for cycling. The Bikeability Toolkit will provide guidance, information and help communities and local government to assess the bikeability of their community. They will be able to develop better integrated cycle planning, policies and implementation strategies.

This will result in safety improvements, enhanced access to cycling, changes in modal share of short trips from car to bicycle, improved liveability and increased physical activity through active transport.

How do I use this Toolkit?

How you use this Toolkit will depend on your particular situation.

  1. If you are doing a full review of your LGA’s bike plan or preparing a new bike plan
  2. If you want a quick assessment of your local area, you can use the Brief LGA Checklist.
  3. If you simply want to assess a particular route you can go straight to the Route Based Checklist.

The four elements of the Bikeability Toolkit can be downloaded in full from the Toolkit page of the TravelSmart website.

Integrating Bicycling and Public Transport in North America

February 26th 2010

This paper provides an overview of bike-transit integration in large American and Canadian cities. 

It includes an analysis of national trends in bike-and-ride programs such as the provision of bike racks on buses, accommodation of bikes on rail vehicles, and bike parking at rail stations and bus stops.

The majority of the study is devoted to case studies of bike-transit integration in six large American cities (San Francisco, Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington, and New York) and two Canadian cities (Vancouver and Toronto).

Much progress has been made over the past decade in coordinating cycling with public transport, but the demand for bike-and-ride far exceeds the supply of facilities in some cities.

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