Cycling campaigns

Objectives: Merge the 2 coolest things ever: rickshaw + karaoke. Incidentally reclaim space for non-motorized vehicles in the city and show that bike is a transportation mean (even to carry large objects/people), all this while entertaining the whole city. Also the only decent karaoke bar in Brussels closed some time ago, so we had to More

Location: City of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska Time started: 01.03.2009  Time ended:  31.05.2009 Objective: Objective was to increase number of cyclists among student population and to establish cooperation between Center for Environment and University of Banja Luka. Result: Increased number of students who cycle. Prepared project for building of parking on University for bicycles and searching for funds More

During the UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen, September 2011, DCF also put up a portable cycling course. See the happy kids from the opening day. Objective: Nursery school children and school children can have great fun cycling. Cycling helps children to be happy and healthy and cycling is an activity that benefits everyone and More

Objectives: To have more Danes use a bicycle – also for recreational purposes during leisure time . Result: The event has created a natural framework for recreational bicycle activities across the country, and it has been very well received. At the same time, the day helps create an awareness of leisure cycling in a country More

Objectives: To have more children remember lights and reflectors. Result: In 2010, the campaign reached one-third of all fourth grade classes, and it may have played a part in the fact that the number of cyclists without lights has been cut in half in the past few years. Financed by:  Sponsors. Managed by: Danish Cyclists’ More

Objectives: To get more children to cycle to school . Result: In 2011 more 150,000 children participated in the campaign. Financed by:  TrygFonden. Managed by: Danish Cyclists’ Federation Description: Bike to School is the children’s counterpart to Bike to Work and targets students at the age of 5-15. The campaign has existed for seven years, More

Objectives: To get more people to cycle to work and motivate those who already do to keep on going. Result: After the campaign, 35% of the participants report that they are more inclined to cycle. Many participants already cycle, but every year, about 10% of the participants are new cyclists. This might not sound like More

Objectives: Encourage more people to cycle, have fun Result: People remember it as great. It is good marketing for the cyclist’s cause. Managed by: Velo-city 2010 Description: There were many of us, there was also an orchestra on rikshaws. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIBilrhA0U Website: http://www.velo-city2010.com/ More

Financed by:  Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Program Description: “Volunteers of Cycling Academy – VOCA” is a project EU-funded by the Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Program which aims to improve exchange and knowledge of young cycling advocacy associations all over Europe, focused on Beginner Cities in Eastern and Southern Europe in exchange with more established cities. 12 nations More

Objective: Reduce the number of stolen bike and help to find the owners. Result: Overall, between june 2004 and june 2007, approximately 2% of 25’000 engraved bikes have been stolen and 9% of the cyclists got them back. This percentage is increasing, up to 18%, in cities like Strasbourg, where local Police officers have been More

Objectives: Teaching adults how to cycle. Enabling them to move around fast cheap and confort Result: 100 students per year Budget: Few hundreds Euros for the bikes Financed by:  Participation fees Managed by: MDB 94 Mieux se déplacer à bicyclette Description: Cycling lessons for adults who have never cycled or who would like to learn More

Objectives: The main goal is that young people (between 12 and 18 years) rather take their bike than being chauffeured by their parents. Result: -          18.000 participants (12 – 18 ears) -          Almost 3 million „bike kilometers“ -> 418 tons CO2 not polluting the environment. Financed by:  The German Transport Club (VCD) and sponsors. Managed More

Objective: The basic aim was to promote the use of bikes in a city with little if any infrastructure for sustainable mobility, where the major difficulty is essentially the “fear of car traffic”. The original idea was to organize regular bike tours of the historical city centre in the evening of weekdays, when traffic is More

Objective: Ask for increased security measures of the cyclist. Involving cyclists and FIAB members. Result: The campaign was successful. The competent municipal councilors appreciated the reports and there is the will to solve some. FIAB will collect other reports and investigate whether interventions have been made to those already reported. Budget: no budget, only few More

Objectives: We want to change how bike lanes are built in Bucharest. We would also like bicycle riders having bike lines that are suitable not just for recreational purposes, but for real commuting and that pedestrians get their sidewalks back. Result: We managed to identify the problems and discuss them with the authorities. The authorities More

Objective: To increase cycling as a normal way of living. Result: Cykel Turist Veckan (CTV – The Bicycle Tourist Week) has been an annual event since 1983 and has become very popular over the years. This year will be CTV’s 30th anniversary and approximately 500 people are expected to participate.  Financed by: Participants  Managed by: Cykelfrämjandet Varberg  Description: 1983 More

The “bike2school” campaign aims to promote health and physical activity of youngsters. Cyclists are healthier, more alert und independent and increase their traffic awareness. Objectives: To increase the number of young people biking to school. Between 1994 and 2005 the number and length of journeys cycled by youngsters decreased by over 40%. To promote at More

Objective: To give the cyclist one mountain pass every weekend in the summer to enjoy it without the harass and hazard of motorized vehicles. Result: FreiPass Furka 2007: 800 guests FreiPass Susten 2008: 1’500 guests Budget:  CHF 15 000  / approx 12 300 EUR Financed by:  membership fee Description: Target group: Street cyclists who love mountain passes temporarily More

Objective: To promote and support all kinds of cycling in the Sheffield area. Result: We have secured an 85% increase in the number of people cycling is Sheffield over 5 years and our activities are continuing. Budget:  £500 p.a./approx €580 Financed by:  Members Managed by:  Committee Description: Cycle promotion group with 140 members Contact person: More

Objective: Our main aim is to increase modal share by creating conditions in which people feel it is safe to cycle. This will involved a mixture of local and national changes. We feel that a strict liability law will help this. Seeing how people are reluctant to cycle in traffic, I have come to the More

Objective: To encourage use of bikes as a means of daily transport and to campaign for safer conditions for cyclists by raising issues with the local authorities and any other relevant organisations, e.g. health and also employers. Financed by:  Members subscriptions and donations Managed by: Committee Description: Target group: cyclists and potential cyclists. Activities include More

Objective: The objectives of the National Cycle Network included: policy: to raise the profile of cycling and get it written into national and local policies, strategies and investment plans catalysing change: to develop at least one high quality cycle route through every population centre in the UK, demonstrate best practice and encourage more local development More

Objective: improving cycle infrastructure and making potential cyclist more aware of cycle routes in the district Result: Success in pesuading local landowner to open up footpaths to cyclists.  Success in working with council to construct cycle paths.  success in working with council to sign cycle route devised by the cycle forum Financed by: Grant, donations, More

Objective: Completing the cycle network in the city, so that there are routes for children to get about the city, and adults can comfortably use all roads. Result: More of the road network is being adapted to be comfortable for cycling, with 20mph on all side roads, throughout the city centre, including all main road More

Objectives: Encourage more people, to cycle more often , more safely. Result: We have trained approx 600 bikeability instructors since 2005, and about 4000 children and 1500 adults per annum. Managed by: Local Authority Contractor Description: Large scale Cycle training and Bikeability provider.  Outsourcing specialist working for Local authorities, businesses and voluntary sector.  Also provide More

Objective: We had an objective of doubling cycling from the 2005 baseline by 2011. This was to be measured by automatic cycle count data. We also had a sub objective of normalising cycling by using positive high quality imagery that challenged perceptions of cyclists. We didnt monitor the effect of this Result: Between 2006 – More