[sustran] Released: "Cycling-inclusive Policy Development: A Handbook"

[SUTP Team]

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.
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Free download: * SUTP users can download the document by visiting 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1462&Itemid=1&lang=uk.  
Unregistered visitors can register (at no cost) on the SUTP website and 
then proceed to download.
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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
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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.
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Comments and feedback are highly appreciated:* sutp at sutp.org
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