Want to learn more or see Danish bicycle infrastructure with your own eyes? The Cycling Embassy offers presentations on various topics and guided bike tours.
Reelight, a member of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark, won the “red dot: best of the best” award at this year’s Red dot Design Award competition in Essen, Germany.
Increasing numbers of cyclists on Copenhagen’s cycle tracks require new approaches to planning and implementing cycling infrastructure. Casper Wulff of consulting company and new member of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark, Rambøll, points to ITS technology as part of the answer.
In 1993, Denmark established the world’s first official signed national cycle route network. Since the establishment of the approx. 3,500 km of routes, however, there has not been so much focus on it. A new report on the condition of the routes proposes changes to route structure and signage.
For two years, Randers Cycle City has collaborated with 18 active bicycle ambassadors who work to get more people to jump on bikes in Randers.
Elisabeth Frederiksen, 52, bikes 27 kilometres per day and is an unflinching cyclist who sticks to the cycle tracks almost all year round. When asked why she does not let the cold winter months stop her from taking her daily bike ride, she answers, ‘Because I cannot do without it.’
Many commuters that work in Aarhus, the second-largest city in Denmark, live in the surrounding municipalities and thus have a long drive ahead of them before they get to work. So, the City of Aarhus has come up with a new project that invites commuters to exchange the last part of the drive with a [...]
In the spring of 2012, the City of Fredericia tested a new concept: a GPS-based bicycle relay race also known as ‘Cykelstafetten’. The experiences show potential for further development of the campaign.
Elisabeth Frederiksen, 52, legt täglich 27 Kilometer mit dem Fahrrad zurück und ist eine unbeirrbare Radfahrerin, die beinahe ganzjährig auf den Radwegen anzutreffen ist. Wird sie gefragt, warum sie sich nicht durch die kalten Wintermonate davon abhalten lässt, ihre tägliche Fahrt auf dem Rad zu unternehmen, antwortet sie: „Weil ich ohne nicht leben kann.“
Die Fahrradstadt Randers hat schon zwei Jahre lang eine erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit mit 18 aktiven Fahrradbotschaftern, die dafür arbeiten, mehr Leute zum Umsteigen aufs Rad zu bewegen.
Im Frühjahr 2012 erprobte die Kommune Fredericia ein neues Konzept, demzufolge die Bürger Staffelläufe per Fahrrad mit elektronischen GPS-Geräten absolvieren sollten. Die Erfahrungen mit der „Fahrradstaffel“ zeigen Potential für eine Weiterentwicklung der Kampagne.
Bekanntlich legen sehr viele Pendler mit dem Auto eine längere Wegstrecke über kommunale Grenzen hinweg zurück, bevor sie an ihrem Arbeitsplatz ankommen. Die Kommune Aarhus hat deswegen eine Idee gefördert, die Pendlern die Möglichkeit geben soll, den letzten Teil der Autofahrt durch eine gute Portion Bewegung auf dem Fahrrad zu ersetzen.
Bicycle Ambassadors Promote Cycling in Randers For two years, Randers Cycle City has collaborated with 18 active bicycle ambassadors who work to get more people to jump on bikes in Randers. The bicycle ambassadors are local town councillors, directors, representatives from cultural organisations, athletes, and activists that feel passionately about cycling. Read more Artikel auf [...]
Chicago recently threw a Chicago Meets Copenhagen event presenting their experiences from their study tour to Denmark earlier this year.
The Danish Cancer Society recently published a new manual on how to make Danish school roads more bicycle friendly and thereby increase the level of physical activity among school children.
When the Danish Cyclists’ Federation and its partners rebuild the service structures around the Danish parts of the North Sea Route and the Berlin-Copenhagen Route, they will draw on best-practice cases from all over Europe.
In June, 19 influential politicians and city officials from Portland, Chicago, and San Francisco, plus members of Bikes Belong, toured Denmark visiting the cycle cities Aarhus, Odense, and Copenhagen to study Danish cycle solutions under the headline: ”Experiencing the Most Advanced Bicycling Environments on the Planet.”
Vancouver, Canada, opened its arms and streets this June to host the world’s largest conference on cycling, Velo-city. Twenty bicycle ambassadors from Denmark crossed the Atlantic to meet other bicycle experts, politicians, and NGOs from across the globe to share their knowledge of how to promote cycling.
Bicycle infrastructure in Denmark
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The infrastructure is the basic for developing a cycle culture. Most major cities in Denmark do have rather fine facilities for cyclists, even though the cycle net still needs to be extended and improved. The major Danish cities do have like 300 – 500 kilometres of cycle paths each [...]
Bicycling Statistics in Denmark
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The bicycle share in Denmark is 19 % which is the second highest in Europe. After the war cycling dropped to half of the previous level, but since the 1970′ies cycling has increased in mainly the major cities. The bigger a city is the higher share cycling has of [...]
By Erik Bølling-Ladegaard, The Danish Cyclist Federation and Pablo Celis, Celis Counsult Cycling as a means of transport is on the increase in many towns and cities around the world, and further growth in the number of cyclists is expected in the coming years. At the same time, a lot is being done at many [...]
Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012
The first edition of Collection of Cycle Concepts was published in 2000 and enjoyed a wide circulation among everyone interested in bicycle traffic. The simultaneous publication of the English version spread the Danish bicycle traffic experience to many parts of the world. The second edition, Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012, updates the field, featuring new [...]
Good, Better, Best – The City of Copenhagen’s Bicycle Strategy 2011-2025
In Copenhagen’s new bicycle strategy you can read about the new initiatives and plans, which lay down guidelines for the longterm and overriding priorities within the bicycle area.
It can be hard to determine the exact effect of cycle campaigns, but the tendency in the Danish bicycle culture is clear: In cities that make a systematic effort at promoting cycling, more and more people choose to cycle. There is no doubt that cycle campaigns play a part in this success. This catalogue gives an overview of 14 concrete campaigns, their goals, how they worked in practice, and their results.
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