Danube Cycle Plans Policies, plans and promotion for more people cycling in the Danube region

Guidelines to Define National Cycle Route Network

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Republic of Slovenia, one of the project partners, was responsible to elaborate Guidelines to define a National Cycle Route Network (NCRN) in the Danube Cycle Plan project. The assignment was to prepare the document that shall provide guidance for partners and other interested stakeholders through the preparation, development, adoption and implementation phase of the NCRNs. 

The guidelines will be the base document for all other participating project partners to define their national cycling network together with the stakeholders of the National Cycling Working Group (NCWG). Project partners will then work together to draft a Danube Cycling Route Network (DCRN), a macro-regional network of cycle routes of different categories that connects the participating countries in the Danube region.

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Guidelines to define National Cycle Plans

The Guideline on how to set up a National Cycling Plan/Strategy is not just about planning cycling on the national level, it puts humans and their needs in the centre of our attention, it focuses on our lifestyle which significantly affects the climate, energy efficiency, environment and, ultimately, public health too. The main challenge is to adapt the concept to country-specific conditions, while keep all the ambition and avoid inappropriate compromises.

The guideline accompanies countries willing to implement a strategic document to promote cycling on the national level on their way through the jungle of dos and don’ts supported by examples from 20 year of developing, implementing and updating the national cycling strategy of Czechia. 

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MARKETING STRATEGY

Marketing Strategy defines, what is the key to the success of any strategy – the good involvement of key players. 

The marketing strategy is an important tool which incorporates two major outputs: Stakeholder Inspiration Scheme Deliverable (D.T3.1.1) and the Guideline for the Identification of Danube Cycling Ambassadors (D.T3.2.1). These materials are incorporated into the main marketing strategy, which defines the promotion and capacity building using the ambassadors.

A set of tools such as National Cycling Working Groups, National Cycling Conferences, Stakeholder Inspiration Events and Mentoring System, will help partners set up original process, which always follows the creation and/or updating of the National Cycling Plan.

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Guideline for Assessment of cycling infrastructure and investment necessities

One of the goals of Danube Cycle Plans project is creating a Danube Cycle Route Network (DCRN) or “DanuVelo” which will be a macro-regional network of cycle routes connecting (participating) countries in the Danube region. It will integrate EuroVelo routes and the highest level of the national cycle routes (NCRN) into one comprehensive transnational network.

The guideline is intended to help each project partner prepare an assessment of the current status of cycling infrastructure in their country and calculate an estimate of investment needed for improvements and/or construction of new one.

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Catalogue of Cycling-friendly Infrastructure Standards for the Danube Countries

One of the key factors in supporting the development of cycling is an appropriate infrastructure. To motivate more people to cycle and those who already cycle to cycle more, there must be a free choice among different ways of transport. And the free choice is available only if different ways of transport have comparable quality.

Therefore, the Catalogue of Cycling-friendly Infrastructure Standards for the Danube Countries has been prepared as an output for T2.2.

The standards include specific infrastructure requirements for the different categories of the national cycle route network.

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Danube Cycling Infrastructure Investment Plan 

The document contains a rough cost-estimation for the DanuVelo cycle route network, a more detailed investment plan for EuroVelo 6, an extension of the traditional Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) methodology to be more precise with the estimation of cycling infrastructure and the results of an application of this CBA for a selected cross-border infrastructure section along EuroVelo 6. 

DanuVelo cycle route network has been created by focusing on connecting partnering countries’ “Core Networks” consisting of EuroVelo routes and the highest (long-distance) level of national cycle routes, connecting national and regional centres, allowing access to international cycle routes and connection to the rail network.

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Extended CBA Methodology for Transport Infrastructure Projects

This document, building on scientific evidence and best practices, provides a guideline that practitioners can use to estimate the net benefit of cycling projects to society, i.e. to better understand the impact of cycling infrastructure projects, showing a broad(er) panorama of the related societal impacts. There are several well-documented and scientifically proven benefits of cycling that other, non-active transportation modes do not have, i.e. health benefits or carbon-free transportation. The project team, therefore, proposed a new methodology to approximate the net benefit of cycling infrastructure.

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Application of Updated CBA Methodology for Transport Infrastructure Projects 

This document applies the „Extended CBA Methodology for Transport Infrastructure Projects“ guideline for a potential EuroVelo 6 (EV6) border section as a showcase.

The main differences of the new evaluation method is the introduction of health benefits using a WHO method, and the different assessment of the value of travel time. A pilot cycle track section was selected – Štúrovo (Slovakia) – Szob (Hungary); 20 km – for the introduction of the differences of the cost benefit analyses (CBA) which, as a cross-border section, is part of the EuroVelo 6 bicycle corridor and the infrastructure has not yet been developed, but progress is expected in the near future.

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DANUBE CYCLING STRATEGY

In the Danube Cycling Strategy (DCS), partners of the Danube Cycle Plans project develop a common vision for the promotion of cycling in the Danube region. The vision and the objectives set up in the strategy reflect the identified challenges regarding cycling in the Danube region. The strategy development process brought together the relevant national ministries participating in the project as project partners or associated strategic partners (ASP). It acts as a policy driver at macro-regional level inspiring key actors at national and EU level.

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BROCHURE: 10 actions we can take together to promote cycling! 

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 people cycling in the Danube region. 

This brochure is a call for action to all relevant stakeholders to engage and implement the necessary actions on the international, national, regional and local level.

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