Counting Cyclists – Fostering a Bike Friendly Public Governance

The German city of Bremen actively promotes cycling as a clean and healthy way of transportation. The creation of a vast network of cycle lanes and paths over the past decades has lead to a good infrastructure. The further extension of this network will require more and more to re-allocate road space, thus entering a confrontation with car drivers and their lobby. In order to re-assess the importance of cycling the classical surveys do not deliver sufficient data because they only give data for a limited time. Similar to the motorized traffic being counted at numerous locations all across the road network, there is a need for a continuous data collection and monitoring. Given the growing importance of sustainable transport modes, this task is addressed by Bremen’s traffic management center.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Just, Ulrich
  • Bembennek, Jan
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; Maps; References;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle lanes; Bicycling; Bikeways; Data collection; Sustainable transportation; Traffic control centers; Traffic counts
• Geographic Terms: Bremen (Germany)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494744
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 27 2013 9:17AM