1. A Call for city data on cycling
An EU Roadmap for cycling
A Call for city data on cycling
17 October 2016
Working Group on Regional, Urban and Rural development Statistics
Oliver HEIDEN, Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget (COTER)

2. European Committee of the Regions

3. 26 April Stakeholder consultation
The opinion: An EU Roadmap for Cycling
26 April Stakeholder consultation
mid-May EPRS In-depth analysis on ‘Moving cycling forward’
A coordinated EU approach towards cycling for local and regional authorities
31 May COTER meeting: Working Document
22 June “Cycling breakfast” EFC event with MEPs Michael Cramer and Újhelyi István, Piotr Rapacz (DG MOVE)
4 July COTER meeting: Discussion and adoption
14 September “Cycling into the future” EFC + Slovak Presidency Event
12 October CoR Plenary: Discussion and ADOPTION

4. Data Health Tourism Funding Clear benefits: Solutions: Growth and Jobs
The opinion: An EU Roadmap for Cycling
Clear benefits:
Solutions:
Growth and Jobs
Health
Paradigm shift in urban planning
Safety measures
Environment and Climate
Tourism
Funding
Good infrastructure
Efficient Transport
Spatial planning
Modal integration
Data

5. Call for a Roadmap in the EC’s 2018 annual Work plan
The opinion: An EU Roadmap for Cycling
Main messages:
Call for a Roadmap in the EC’s 2018 annual Work plan
Doubling cycling across the EU
Sustainable transport hierarchy in urban planning
Minimum cycling infrastructure quality criteria for EU projects
Suggestion of default speed limit of 30 km/h in urban areas
Establishing a network of cycling contact points within the EC
Clearing house of projects, funding possibilites, guidelines for LRAs
Common data collection methodology harmonised defintions for national and urban data on cycle use

6. Data: what we have, what we need
Modal split data:
AS-IS: Eurobarometer survey on most used mode of transport on a typical day
based on estimation of respondents, no verification
active modes might be under-represented
relatively small sample size (ca. 28,000 respondents for the whole EU)
irregular publication
data available for EU and national level only; data on socio-demographic characteristics only at EU level
TO-BE: comparable modal split data (mobility studies/national travel surveys)
data in national travel surveys should be based on GPS tracking or at least log books, not on subjective surveys
should include trip stages, distance and ideally also time; trip purpose; socio-demographic data (age, income class,…)
appropriate sample size
regular updates
at EU, national, regional and local level

7. Road safety data: AS-IS: Data on fatalities from road accidents
Data: what we have, what we need
Road safety data:
AS-IS: Data on fatalities from road accidents
no data on injuries from accidents
no relation to cycling levels
countries with low levels of cycling (e.g. Malta) seem safer than those with high levels (e.g. Netherlands) just because absolute fatality numbers are lower
TO-BE: Comprehensive accident data in relation to cycling levels
data on injuries
relating fatalities + injuries to cycled kilometres and ideally also time spent cycling

8. Data: what we have, what we need
Public bike schemes:
AS-IS: fragmented, mostly private overviews of public bike systems
e.g.
TO-BE: Comparable data on public bike systems as an integral part of public transport
Number of stations + bikes
Usage rate: time that the bikes are in use

9. Investment in cycling:
Data: what we have, what we need
Investment in cycling:
AS-IS: Fragmented data from different levels of governance
no common methodology
cycling investments often not counted separately
TO-BE: Comparable data on investments
Concrete numbers on specific cycling investments or cycling investments as part of other road infrastructure projects
Investment levels in absolute numbers, per head of population and as a percentage of total transport investments

10. Data for An EU Roadmap on Cycling