The bicycle and city traffic : principles and practice.

This book aims to examine the revival of cycling more closely, to assess both current patterns of bicycle usage in towns and cities, and the potential for increasing this. Part I discusses the principles of cycling policy. In Chapter 1 the current significance of the bicycle in city traffic is assessed. Chapter 2 examines the development of special measures to promote bicycle traffic in relation to wider trends in traffic policy and town planning since 1945. Chapter 3 examines current trends in highway planning, traffic management and town planning, both in older and newer towns and cities and the opportunities presented by these to encourage cycling. In Chapter 4 there is an assessment of the relationship between cycling and planning for public transport, while the concluding chapter of Part I, Chapter 5, discusses the appropriate balance in cycle policy between planning or engineering measures on the one hand, and, on the other, policies on road safety education and training and traffic low provision and enforcement. Part II contains seven case studies of actual experience in a variety of places which have given some special attention to encouraging cycling. This includes three cities in Great Britain (Nottingham, Cambridge and London), and two cities on the European mainland (Groningen in the Netherlands, Odense in Denmark). There are also two chapters analysing general cycle planning experience in Germany and the USA.