Sub-plenary Sessions

World-wide Experience

Otto van Boggelen, Fietsersbond, The Netherlands Sustainable Road Safety, Opportunities And Threats For Cyclists For cyclists, sustainable road safety offers good opportunities but at the same time poses a number of strong threats. In this contribution these opportunities and threats will be mapped on the basis of Dutch experience.

Andy Clarke, Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, USA Models For Change, Ensuring Excellence In An Emerging Profession: The Association Of Pedestrian And Bicycle Professionals The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals was established in 1995. Located in Washington, DC, the APBP has 300 members from more than 40 states and four countries. Members include state and local government staff, academics, professional advocates, students, and consultants from traffic engineering, planning, safety, research and campaigning backgrounds. More details of the APBP’s specific activities will be presented in a workshop later in the program. APBP is a good model for change in the sense that it reflects a number of trends in the United States that have considerable application throughout the world. This presentation will focus on two themes: First, associations in the United States have a unique and critical role in shaping public policy and affecting our everyday lives. Second, one of the few areas in which the United States has something to teach other countries in relation to bicycling is in the role and function of the bicycle program manager, bicycle coordinator, or cycling officer. In the United States, they hold at least as much responsibility for the future of bicycling as do advocates or campaigners.

Carlos Cordero Velásquez, Ciclored, Peru What About Traffic Calming In Latin America?

John Dowlin, Bicycle Coalition Philadelphia, USA Traffic Calming And The Politics Of Speed For those of us who live in speed societies – most of us in Europe & North America where high speeds make transportation socially destructive – traffic calming is too important to be left to traffic engineers.The larger constituency for “calmando trafico” are the urbanists, new & old alike, who are at work on community greening projects, smoke-free environments, and innumerable campaigns to make our towns & cities more livable. At the heart of this larger constituency are the parents for whom all urban planning begins with kids. Make a street, a school, a city, or a nation child friendly and it will then, by extension, be friendly for all of us. With every endeavour, therefore, start with kids!

Manfred Hönig, City Council Graz, Department of Transportation, Austria The Graz Traffic Calming Model And Its Consequences For Cyclists The decisive, fiercely debated “Gentle Mobility” approach was backed up in 1992 by the “30 km/h speed limit for all residential areas in Graz – excepting major roads” experiment. This approach caused some positive effects also for bikers. The 30 km/h speed limit applies to more than 75% of all roads in Graz. A limit of 50 km/h applies only to major roads and collector roads with important public transport lines. In addition to an information campaign, the police have been closely monitoring adherence to these limits.

Don Mathew, Slower Speeds Initiative, UK Speeding Up Slowing Down This paper is a development of the one I presented at the Graz VeloCity conference.There I explained that vehicle speed was not until recently regarded as a serious issue in UK discussions about Transport policy.As a result,a coalition was formed in 1998,chaired by myself,to press for change.

Christine Mwebesa, First African Bicycle Information Office (FABIO) Transportation And Development In Uganda

Guido Schlottmann, City of Bonn, Planning and Building Department, Germany The Bonn Experience Traffic Calming in residential Areas – what has it to do with cycling?

Michael Yeates, Bicycle Federation of Australia Speed Reduction, Traffic Calming Or Cycling Facilities: A Question Of What Best Achieves The Goals?