Danube Cycle Plans Policies, plans and promotion for more people cycling in the Danube region
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Cycling has become more and more popular in recent years. However, conditions for cycling in the Danube region differ a lot. Some countries already have significant share of its population cycling, whereas in other countries the importance of cycling for transport, health, environment and/or the economy is barely recognized so far. Cycling is often treated as a side topic – in transport policies as well as for most official professional education where future planners, etc. don’t get sufficient training on cycling. Cycling infrastructure development especially at national and transnational level lacks coordinated planning, funding and implementation.
Project Description
The project Danube Cycle Plans addresses these challenges by setting actions to strengthen the three main pillars of cycling promotion:
- Facilitate the development of cycling policies at national and transnational level supported by National Cycling Plans based on a common transnational Danube Cycling Strategy;
- Support the provision of adequate cycling infrastructure by defining the Danube Cycle Route Network, developing common standards and deriving an investment plan to upgrade current conditions;
- Increase the awareness of relevant stakeholders for the needs of cyclists and increase their capacity to promote cycling in the whole Danube region by implementing a mentoring system, inspiration events and national cycling conferences.
At the end of the project, relevant stakeholders will have more capacity and find improved framework conditions to promote cycling as an integral part of an environmentally-friendly transport system which contributes to the EUSDR aim to improve inter-modality and the DTP aim to support environmentally-friendly and safe transport systems. The project is embedded in THE PEP Partnership on Cycling (UNECE/WHO) who´s masterplan gives valuable input for the project and vice versa, the project´s outputs will backflow to the pan-European level.
- Start date
- 01-07-2020
- End date
- 31-12-2022
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 1682760.75
- ERDF Contribution: 1291787.05
- IPA Contribution: 138559.56
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 3
- Priority
- Better connected and energy responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Support environmentally-friendly and safe transport systems and balanced accessibility of urban and rural areas
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| Danube Cycling Strategy | 28-12-2022 13:24:00 | |
| 10 actions we can take together to promote cycling! | 28-12-2022 13:26:54 | |
| Application of Updated CBA Methodology for Transport Infrastructure Projects | 28-12-2022 13:21:23 | |
| Extended CBA Methodology for Transport Infrastructure Projects | 28-12-2022 13:19:32 | |
| Danube Cycling Infrastructure Investment Plan | 28-12-2022 13:14:02 | |
| Assessment of cycling infrastructure and investment necessities for DanuVelo a national | 28-12-2022 13:15:41 | |
| Marketing Strategy | 25-04-2022 10:51:45 | |
| Roll-up "10 reasons why to promote cycling" | 01-07-2022 12:08:13 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environment Agency Austria | Lead partner | agnes.kurzweil@umweltbundesamt.at | Austria |
| Partnership for Urban Mobility | ERDF partner | jarda@dobramesta.cz | Czech Republic |
| KTI Institute for Transport Sciences Non Profit Ltd. | ERDF partner | munkacsy.andras@kti.hu | Hungary |
| Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic | ERDF partner | michal.hladky@mindop.sk | Slovakia |
| Ministry of Infrastructure | ERDF partner | Gregor.steklacic@gov.si | Slovenia |
Project News
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Danube Cycle Plans - CROATIAN CYCLING AMBASSADORS
- 09-01-2023
Professional rowers, a doctor, an actor, a journalist, a singer... they all discovered the multiple value of cycling and all included the bicycle in their everyday life. We bring you several stories of Croatian cycling ambassadors with the hope...
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Danube Cycle Plans - THE NEWSLETTER #6 ISSUED
- 28-12-2022
Danube Cycle Plans project is coming to an end. It's time to look back at how we managed to push our visions in the past 30 months despite the unexpectedly dramatic circumstances that accompanied this entire period. The last two and a half...
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Danube Cycle Plans - PF 2023
- 22-12-2022
To all the readers, we would like to wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We are looking forward to fruitful cooperation in the field of environmentally-friendly and safe transport systems! Members of the Danube Cycle Plans...
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Danube Cycle Plans - Danube Cycle Plans at THE PEP Steering Committee Meeting
- 21-12-2022
The results of the DCP Interreg project (DCP) were presented by Robert Thaler, Member of THE Bureau and former Chair of THE PEP, Head of Department Active Mobility and Mobility Management in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Action,...
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Danube Cycle Plans - 10 ACTIONS WE CAN TAKE TOGETHER TO PROMOTE CYCLING
- 21-12-2022
Already at current levels, cycling produces global benefits of 150 billion euros per year within EU-28. To exploit these benefits nine Danube countries cooperating in the Danube Cycle Plans project agreed on the following common vision: more...
