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The (Bicycle) Bells & Whistles to improve your Cycle PlanningAssociation for Commuter Transportation Sustainable Mobility Summit 2012
Steven Bishop, Associate, Steer Davies Gleave
Tuesday, November 6th 2012
Steer Davies Gleave28-32 Upper Ground
London, SE1 9PD+44 (0)20 7910 5000
www.steerdaviesgleave.com
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Contents
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Ι Short bio
Ι Cycle Audits – what are they?
Ι The Bicycle Planning toolbox
Ι Lessons learnt
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Ι Transportation planner in the UK for nine years and in Canada for one year
Ι Focus on transportation demand management, active transportation, urban transit, and multi-modal planning and evaluation
Ι Moving permanently to Toronto
Ι A firm believer in cycling
Quick Bio
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Ι A logical and systematic assessment of any network for cycling
Ι Assesses a networks capability and attractiveness for cycling
Ι Rates each road to a cyclist competency level, for example, the skill level required to safely use the road
Ι The results are used to identify key barriers and gaps to cycling, and potential solutions
Ι Feeds into a thorough report and strategy, prioritising key interventions
What are cycle audits?
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Ι The bicycle is a private individual vehicle - cyclists don’t stick to roads, or paths, or tracks, and they go the wrong way
Why GPS?
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Ι However, unlike travelling in a car, many more external influences can affect the quality of the ride.
■ Surface quality■ Environmental factors■ Gradient■ Proximity, flow, speed and interaction of other traffic
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Sir Chris Hoy (Six Olympic Gold Medals)
New Olympic Sport – Flying Cycle Dive
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SUBJECTIVITY
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OBJECTIVITYRESORT TO RATIONALISM AND
OBJECTIVITY INSTEAD OF PETTY EMOTIONS AND SUBJECTIVE FEELINGS
Dwight Schrute
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Our Bicycle Planning Toolbox
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Ι Stage 1 – Initial GPS Network Audit
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Ι The camera (video GPS) recently included in all audits and is proving to be highly popular
Ι GPS camera technology provides for further analysis and evidence base
Ι The camera records the entire process and:■ GPS co-ordinates – show location alongside
the video using online mapping■ Measurement of vibrations – measuring
surface quality■ Speed – allows you to recognise the amount
of time it might take to get from one place to the other
■ Altitude – gradient is very important aspect for cyclists and designing cycling infrastructure
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Cycle Audits with a GPS Camera
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So, what else can we do with the data?
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CONSULTATION
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CONSULTATION
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SURFACE QUALITY MAPPING
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BEHAVIOUR MONITORING
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Cyclist Behaviour
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BEHAVIOUR MONITORING
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Lack of space
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Our Bicycle Planning Toolbox
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Ι Stage 1 – Initial GPS Network AuditΙ Stage 2 – Competency Rating
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Road Competency Rating
Ι A very new method of auditing a network
Ι Rates every road to Bikeability level ■ Level 1: Off Road - limited skills needed)■ Level 2: Quiet roads - intermediate on-road
skills needed■ Level 3: Main roads with traffic - high on-road
skills needed and integration with traffic■ Level 4: Main roads with high traffic volumes
and speeds - legal to ride on but not advised for any skill level
Ι Results in a very visual audit - easily highlights ■ locations in need of infrastructure
improvements■ cyclable routes
Ι www.bikeability.org.uk
“On average primary schools with Bikeability training double cycling to school in three years”
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Our Bicycle Planning Toolbox
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Ι Stage 1 – Initial GPS Network AuditΙ Stage 2 – Competency RatingΙ Stage 3 – Consultation & Data Analysis
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CONSULTATION
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List of interventions
Accident dataSpeed and traffic flow
data
Video Footage Issue locations
Cycle Competency Audit
Cycle parking and signage audit
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Our Bicycle Planning Toolbox
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Ι Stage 1 – Initial GPS Network AuditΙ Stage 2 – Competency RatingΙ Stage 3 – Consultation & Data AnalysisΙ Stage 4 – Scheme & Network Development
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References Video 32b
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Our Bicycle Planning Toolbox
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Ι Stage 1 – Initial GPS Network AuditΙ Stage 2 – Competency RatingΙ Stage 3 – Consultation & Data AnalysisΙ Stage 4 – Scheme & Network DevelopmentΙ Stage 5 – Prioritization & Implementation
Plan
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Ι What scheme will make the most positive impact?
Ι What scheme will provide value for money?
Ι What scheme meets a current need?
Ι What scheme has strong political and public will?
Ι How long will it take to implement?
Ι What are the sorts of measures we want to measure the priority of schemes?
Prioritization Frameworks
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Prioritization Frameworks
CAN SOUNDBORING….
BUT…
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Bicycle intervention top trumps…
Intervention 1 Intervention 2 Intervention 3
Total accidents per Square kilometre"Bumpiness" of route
Proximity to railway/bus station (m)Distance to nearest school (m)
Potential land ownership issues
Links to potential funding sources
TOTAL
Value Pts. Value Pts. Value Pts.
3 1 24 5 0 0
10 3 2 1 5 2
20 10 100 3 505 1
500 5 900 1 30 10
Yes -10 No No5 5
Yes 15 No -5 Yes 15
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Ι Utilises full cycle audit ■ Competency road grading (to Bikeability level)■ Roadhawk video library■ Cycle parking and signage audit■ Problem junctions■ Accident data
Ι Network development and long list of schemes
Ι Pro-forma production and prioritisation of schemes
Ι Detailed design of selected interventions
Ι Full cycling strategy with short and long term interventions
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Strategy Development
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Some Key Lessons Learnt from the UK
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Ι Cycle Parking
Ι Signage
Ι Permeability
Ι Quality
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Cycle ParkingWhy the ‘U’?
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Ι Simple
Ι Safe
Ι Cheap
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Ι Should show the time it takes to get somewhere, not only the distance
Ι Non-cyclists would have no idea how long it would take to cycle 10km, and would generally suggest it takes a lot longer than it actually does
Ι Does anyone care that this is Bike Route 9?
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Ι Off-road routes are very difficult to retrofit over a whole network and come with their fair share of safety and engineering problems
Ι Complete off-road networks only exist in new towns or places where the infrastructure has grown with the city (e.g. Amsterdam or Copenhagen)
Ι The road network is complete, therefore, it is logical to utilise this for cyclists
Ι The knee-jerk reaction to this, is that roads are unsafe for cyclists, because roads have vehicles on them, however, a number of principles keep cyclists safe on the road
■ keep cyclists visible to drivers at all times■ train cyclists how to cycle with traffic and communicate with drivers■ train drivers how to watch out for and respect cyclists■ allocate road space that is dedicated to cyclists, this provides space
for the cyclist, advertises to drivers that cyclists use this road and makes them more visible
Permeability
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Quality – off-road vs. on-road
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Ι The challenge is to think of cycling as a REAL mode of transport, not something that is a nice to have
Ι Adding the occasional off road cycle route where it fits will not result in an increase in the number of cyclists commuting to work/school or other utility trips
Ι When designing a cycle route, think, would I design this for a motorised vehicle?
Ι CYCLING IS NOT TRANSIT■ Would you want a road that suddenly ended?■ Would you allow a new development in the city without parking?■ Would you provide a road that was not direct?
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Home
Work
FANTASTIC
FANTA
STIC
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FIND AND PRIORITSE THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT POSITIVELY IMPACT CYCLING ON THE NETWORK
=BETTER CYCLING CONDITIONS
MORE PEOPLE CYCLING
THE AIM
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MORE PEOPLE CYCLING
=HEALTHIER PEOPLE
&MORE PRODUCTIVE
PEOPLE AND A MORE LIVEABLE COMMUNITY
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