GTZ SUTP and the Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE) have joined efforts in the development of a training document entitled "Cycling-inclusive Policy Development: A Handbook". This handbook provides detailed information on how to develop cycling-friendly policies and facilities. It can help you, as a planner, engineer, community leader of advocate to enrich your own ideas about the future traffic and transport system where you live and work. It has been written by 12 authors who are experts in different fields of cycling-inclusive development.

The handbook covers the following issues:

• Introduction: learning from others’ successes and failures´
• From car-based to people entered cities
• Ideas that shape urban form – and how urban form shapes us
• Getting organized: managing and implementing the policy –making process
• Five main requirements for cycling-inclusive infrastructure
• Identifying bicycle networks for better cities
• Design: making choices that fit local conditions
• Designing for cycling makes residential and central business district streets better – for all
• Designing for cycling along main roads and highways
• Bicycle parking: tools for success
• Building a multi-modal transport system: integrating cycling and public transportation
• Cycling-friendly regulations for sustainable cities
• Social marketing and citizens’ participation: good relationships build better cycling facilities
• Education, awareness building and advocacy
• Researching cycling needs and possibilities

The publication is also part of Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) initiative, of which GTZ and I-CE are partners. It contains 256 fully illustrated pages, 19 tables, 33 boxes and 214 figures.

About SUTP: The Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) is a global partnership which aims to help developing world cities achieve their sustainable transport goals, through the dissemination of information about international experience and targeted work with particular cities. SUTP developed the publication “Sustainable Transport: A Sourcebook for Policy-makers in developing cities” consisting of more than 26 modules. The sourcebook addresses the key areas of a sustainable transport policy framework for a developing city. It is also complemented by a series of training documents and other material. More on www.sutp.org

About SUMA: The Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) program of the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia), Asian Development Bank (www.adb.org), EMBARQ-the World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport (http://embarq.wri.org), GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (www.sutp.org), Interface for Cycling Expertise (www.cycling.nl), Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (www.itdp.org), and United Nations Center for Regional Development (www.uncrd.or.jp/est) is made possible through the generous support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (www.sida.se).

SUMA works with Asian countries and cities to strengthen the formulation and implementation of sustainable urban transportation policies, specifically in (i) improving urban air quality by adopting AQM planning in sustainable transport policies, (ii) improving road safety by encouraging non-motorized transport, and (iii) reducing transport's contribution to climate change by adopting a co-benefits approach with urban air quality management.

The document is available for free download

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