Urban Transport Benchmarking Initiative year three

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Urban Transport Benchmarking Initiative year
three

• CYCLING WORKING GROUP REPORT
• Experts Oliver Hatch Pascal van den Noort
• Velo Mondial
• Rapporteurs Neil Smith, TTR (Yr2)
• Katherine McWilliam, TTR (Yr3)
• Ben Smith, TTR (Yr3)

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Year three Participating cities
Six cities Brescia, Copenhagen, Glasgow /
Cycling Scotland, The Hague, London, Malmö
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Timeline of Activities

• Year three Cycling Working Group conferences and
  site visits
• Brussels (All) 22nd September 2005
• Santander (Joint) 1st - 2nd December 2005
• The Hague (Joint) 23rd - 24th March 2006
• Malmö (Cycling) 8th 9th May 2006
• Budapest (All) 16th June 2006

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Brussels (All) 22nd September 2005
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Santander (Joint) 1st - 2nd December 2005
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The Hague (Joint) 23rd - 24th March 2006
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Malmö (Cycling) 8th 9th May 2006
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Budapest (All) 16th June 2006
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Obstacles to more cycling

• Many issues no one single message
• Attitudes and perceptions
• Adequate road space facilities
• Excessive car speeds illegal parking
• Lack of information signage
• Weather and gradients

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Year 3 - Research Questions Indicators

• How can Cities Monitor and Evaluate Cycling?
• How to Encourage Intermodality for Cyclists and
  Public Transport Users so that Both can Benefit?

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Q1. How can Cities Monitor and Evaluate Cycling?

• This Question was split up into 4 main topics
  with indicators describing them
• I.1 Cycling policy
• I.2 Promotion of new cycle use
• I.3 Opinions of the usefulness and the
  difficulty in collecting certain indicators
• I.4 Projects using these indicators

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Q2. How to Encourage Intermodality for Cyclists
and Public Transport Users so that Both can
Benefit?

• This Question was split up into 8 main titles
  with indicators describing them
• J1 - Cycles on public transport
• J2 - Cycle parking sufficiency
• J3 - Cycle hire
• J4 - Local authority incentives for employers to
  encourage sustainable transport use by staff

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Q2. How to Encourage Intermodality for Cyclists
and Public Transport Users so that Both can
Benefit? Continued

• J5 - Requirements for employers to provide
  cycle parking
• J6 - Personalised journey planning services
• J7 - Innovative approaches to integrating
  cycling and public transport
• J8 - Coordination between Public transport
  operators and city cycling departments in
  planning public transport facilities

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UTBI Benchmarking Practical Challenges

• Key issues encountered in year 3
• No budget for participants
• Limited time for participating cities
• Definitions and availability of indicators
• Depth, direction and analysis of qualitative
  answers

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Key Findings Q1. How can Cities Monitor and
Evaluate Cycling?

• Qualitative indicators
• All cities have a cycling policy, but focus it
  differently
• All cities regard monitoring as important,
  implement it
• Most cities promote new cycle use, but in
  different ways
• Most projects to promote use are successful

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Key Findings Q1. How can Cities Monitor and
Evaluate Cycling? Continued

• Usefulness

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Key Findings Q1. How can Cities Monitor and
Evaluate Cycling? Continued

• Initial difficulty
• to research

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Key Findings Q1. How can Cities Monitor and
Evaluate Cycling? Continued

• Ranked by usefulness then by difficulty

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Key Findings Q1. How can Cities Monitor and
Evaluate Cycling? Continued

• Qualitative indicatorsPartial correlation
  between usefulness - initial difficulty to
  collect
• ESSENTIAL - cycle accidents, network length, of
  trips by mode KSI/trip length
• VERY USEFUL - cycle parking, bridges/tunnels for
  bikes, engaging employers, signing strategy,
  engaging schools, cordon counts, use of cycle
  parking children cycle training
• NICE TO HAVE - children cycle training, cycle
  shops, cycle training programme, behaviour
  surveys, cycle theft

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Key Findings Q2. How to Encourage Intermodality
for Cyclists and Public Transport Users so that
Both can Benefit?

• On Q2, the cycling group and the Behavioural and
  Social Issues in Urban Transport groups both
  answered the same questions.
• Part of a valuable cooperative working on common
  issues, and with joint meetings during the year
• Cycling group agreed that this had been very
  useful process, but that there is much more work
  to be done on intermodality

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Key Findings Q2. How to Encourage Intermodality
for Cyclists and Public Transport Users so that
Both can Benefit?

• Cycles cannot be taken on most buses, some
  trains
• No, or limited, cycle parking at transport
  interchanges
• Most cities have cycle hire schemes - either
  subscription or a coin mechanism

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Key Findings Q2. How to Encourage Intermodality
for Cyclists and Public Transport Users so that
Both can Benefit? Continued

• Most cities incentivise employers sustainable
  transport
• Most cities have a journey planner 2 included
  cycling
• Most are planning innovative cycle parking
• Limited coordination between transport
  organisations and city administrations
• However, promising ideas for the future

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Advice for cities collecting indicators

• Essential points when collecting indicators
• Care must be taken using indicators
• Indicators should be clearly defined
• Mix of indicators for a comprehensive picture

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Links to findings from year 1 of UTBI

• We looked at indicators on
• How mainstreamed is cycling policy and practise
  in the cities
• The part that infrastructure and marketing play
  in achieving current cycle usage,

Cities learnt a lot about best practise, and
discussed its transferability. They wanted to
develop the indicators and focus on other areas
in year two, such as public transport, marketing
and health
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Cycle / health promotion in Manchester
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Links to findings from year 2 of UTBI

• So, in year 2 we looked at indicators on
• Measuring and monitoring effects of cycle policy
• Marketing for specific audiences
• Integrating cycling and public transport to
  mutual benefit

Data for policy review is gathered
piecemeal. Diversity of marketing in cities gave
excellent opportunities for shared learning, and
cities wanted to do more on this First joint
meeting of working groups success!
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Cycle / Public transport promotion in Brussels
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Recommendations for further studies

• Analysis of city cycle hire schemes
• Cycle parking at interchanges
• Parking distances from interchanges
• Funding staffed cycling facilities
• Promotion of cycle parking facilities
• Foldable bicycles
• Bicycles on trains

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The Future?!!!