Transcript Folie 1

Municipal
Cooperation to
Promote Cycling
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Contents
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Accountability for local mobility
Jointly coordinated routes
Cycling policy through the Länder
Networking and cooperation
Municipal Cycling Conference
Municipal alliances for the Land
Consortium of Bicycle-Friendly Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Consortium of bicycle-friendly municipalities in BadenWürttemberg
Accountability for local mobility
Traditionally strong local self-government
Municipal level
 Primary responsibilities for urban and transport planning
 General mobility enhancement for pedestrians and cyclists
Administrative districts – particularly in rural areas
 coordinate the planning schemes of their cities and towns.
 decide on funding of public transport services and of their own
roads.
 plan to create broader transport networks
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Accountability for local mobility (2)
Leading municipal associations
 Need for cooperation to represent interests at the
Länder and federal level
Joint research centre German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
 Clearing house for cycling policy
 Publisher of “Cycling Expertise Files”
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Jointly coordinated routes
Regional cooperation among
municipalities
 Interlink communities
 Allow cross-border cycling
tourism with integrated
routes
 Uniform signposting
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Jointly coordinated routes (2)
Experience in regional municipal cooperation
 Common public institutions with own funding, i. e. joint
local authority ventures in the areas
 Public transport
 Wastewater management
 Efficient structure: one municipality handles the duties of
its neighbours as well
Coordination of routes for cycling tourism
 Connected to local tourism structures
 Responsibility for overseeing intermunicipal cycling routes
often by
 Tourism associations
 Administrative districts
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Active promotion of cycling policy through the Länder
Cycling path networks
 Link-up of individual routes by cooperating municipalities
Establishing of development framework
 Manuals on infrastructure for cycling path network
 Newsletters for municipal players
 Providing state infrastructural funding
Support by specialized planning offices
Integrated networks despite roads and paths under different
ownership, fundings from different sources, planning conflicts
with road construction schemes, nature conservation and large
privately owned plots
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Active promotion through the Länder: Example NRW
North Rhine-Westphalia
Land-spanning cycling network in 10
years time
Tourist and everyday routes
Signposting infrastructure
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Municipalities can add
information of their own
accord with additional uniform
signs
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Earmarked funding tools
High-quality directions (bicycle
parking
at major railway stations, online
route planner, navigation system)
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Municipal networking and cooperation
Municipal Coordination Group for Cycling (KoKo-Rad)
 Municipal demand for more representation on cycling
policy matters
 Five municipal representatives from three leading
municipal associations
 Three transport officers
Tasks: Aid for the leading municipal associations in
 Drawing up issue-related opinions
 Formulating suggestions to improve the cycling promotion
in municipalities (lobby work)
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Municipal networking and cooperation
Tasks of the Koko-Rad (part 2)
 preparing the annual municipal cycling conference
programme
 Coordination and advising of the municipal representatives
of the advisory council on cycling at the Federal Ministry of
Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS)
 Helps update the body of rules and regulation
 Supervises ancillary research for BMVBS projects
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Municipal Cycling Conference
Key annual meeting for experience
sharing among those responsible
for cycling policy in public
administrations
Aims:
 to network players across
Germany
 to involve the leading
municipal associations
 to activate initiatives in the
given hosting region (provide
incentives)
 to address the leadership in
administrations and politics
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Organized in the framework of
the ‚Bicycle Academy‘ by the
German Institute for Urban
Affairs (Difu)
Only local government
administrators
Participants:
 2007: 125
 2008: 158
 2009: 186
 2010: 184
(Göttingen)
(Frankfurt-Main)
(Potsdam)
(Karlsruhe)
Municipal alliances for the Land
Municipalities form bike-friendly alliances
Improvement of experience sharing
Jointly promoting their interests
Higher efficiency through
 common campaign
 joint informational flyers for cyclists and planners
Initiative often lies with the Länder, but different approaches are
followed
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Consortium of Bicycle-Friendly Cities, Administrative Districts and
Municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia (AGFS)
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NRW
 still dominated by traditional industries
 densely and highly populated Land in Germany
„Strength through dialogue“: link bike-friendly municipalities and
cities
 locally available resources
 funding from the Land NRW available for members
 conditions for joining:
 explicit council resolution to ambitiously promote cycling
action programme
 “successfully passed entrance examination” administered
by a review commission for cycling in cities.
Consortium of Bicycle-Friendly Cities, NRW (AGFS) (2)
AGFS offers
 array of brochures on
specialist topics
 Conventions
 Competitions
 guideline for new
members with its view on
how to pursue a successful
cycling policy
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57 members of the AGFS on the 1st of March 2010 in red
(cities) and orange (municipalities).
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (MV) Network
Starkly different conditions than in NRW:
 low population density
 little purchasing power
 shrinking populations
 dynamic cycling tourism (beyond the Baltic Sea coast)
Interministerial Working Group on Cycling Policy (IMAG Radverkehr)
 bundles responsibilities for cycling path infrastructure spread
over various ministries (Transport, Agriculture, Tourism).
 coordinate the use and provision of signs on existing cycling
paths.
MV Bike a committee that concentrates on promoting experience
sharing among municipalities.
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Working Group on
Cycling Policy
Municipalities
Concrete Projects
by MV State Ministries
Delegates
Membership
Collaboration
Organisation,
Funded Projects,
Evaluation
„Think thank“
on Cycling in MV
Giving Advice
Clearing House
MV-bike Advisory Council
Delegates
Collaboration
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV)
Collaboration Scheme on Cycling
Consortium of Bicycle-Friendly Municipalities in BadenWürttemberg (AGFK-BW)
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Consortium of Bicycle-Friendly Municipalities in BadenWürttemberg (AGFK-BW) (2)
BW
 affluent Land with many
 high-tech industries and a
 long tradition of municipal independence
Aims
 advise its members
 offers services to support and disencumber employees in
member municipality administrations in their task of
information gathering.
AGFK-BW is confirmed by a political resolution
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Consortium of Bicycle-Friendly Municipalities in BadenWürttemberg (AGFK-BW) (3)
Financing
 Member contributions from municipalities.
 The Land BW also provides the network with financial support
through:
 an internal AGFK-BW project office at BW‘s public
transportation organization;
 specific member projects;
 the project-run internet portal www.fahrradland-bw.de – a
central communication platform (providing news, practical
examples, forthcoming dates in the cycling calendar).
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Conclusions
Positive effects of horizontal municipal networks for cycling
promotion:
 help implement projects such as cycling routes,
 pool municipal resources for cycling promotion at Land level
and
 facilitate access to state funding
 More effective lobby work at the federal level possible through
communication between municipal networks and the leading
municipal associations
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Sources and Links
Second German federal government cycling report on the state of cycling in
the Federal Republic of Germany, 2007:
www.bmvbs.de/Anlage/original_1018367/Zweiter-Fahrradbericht-derBundesregierung-barrierefrei.pdf (in German)
www.nrvp.de/foerderung-bund/foerderung-nrvp/massnahmen.phtml (in
German)
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania www.mv-bike.net
North-Rhine Westphalia www.fahrradfreundlich.nrw.de
Route planner www.radroutenplaner.nrw.de/RRP_home_02_en.html (in
English)
NRW Cycling Network
www.radverkehrsnetz.nrw.de/downloads/Rad_info_english.pdf (in English)
Baden-Württemberg www.fahrradland-bw.de
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Imprint Publisher: German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) gGmbH, Zimmerstraße 13–15, 10969 Berlin, Department Mobility and
Infrastructure. Editors: Sara Van Boeckhout, Jörg Thiemann-Linden, [email protected], [email protected]