Smart Cities: Unraveling The Cycling City
Unraveling the Cycling City
Chapter 1: A historical perspective
Chapter 2: The urban environment
Chapter 3: A robust network
Chapter 4: Co evolution of design
and behavior
Week 1: A Historical Perspective
Key Concepts
Describe the historical development
of Dutch cycling
Describe the possible sociological
effects of a cycling culture
Employ a historical example of
cycling in your region to illustrate how cycling went boom
How Dutch cycling is not in the
genes, but involved radical policy choices
Intro: Historical perspective: Is
cycling in the Dutch genes?
1.1
How
the dutch got their cycle paths
1.2
Why
and for whom were bicycle parhs built?
1.3
The
prime minister bikes to work
Why we cycle
(Video on Demand)
1.4
A
dutch cycling culture?
Week 2: The urban environment
Key Concepts
Summarize the reciprocal
interactions between land use and transport
Describe the relevance of land use
density and diversity for cycling environments
Recognize the synergies of combined
cycling and transit
Intro: How does environment shape
mobility behavior and vice-versa?
2.1 The Netherlands and Europe in
Context
2.2 The relationship between land
use and transport
2.3 Making cycling (and transit) the
default choice
2.4 Connecting Social and Spatial
Environments
Week 3: The street within a network
Key Concepts
Choose a way to conceptualize the
street and bikepaths
Outline the arrogance of space
approach and its limits
Describe the relevance of a full
cycle network
Intro: Can we reimagine the street?
3.1 Understanding Cyclists'
Behaviour
3.2 Slow Car or a Fast Pedestrian?
3.3 Is there such a thing as a
'just' street?
3.4 What are bicycle highways?
Week 4: The co-evolution of design and behavior
Key Concepts
Explain why different road users
break the law
Illustrate cyclists' interaction
through the use of analogies
Apply pattern language to create
context-sensitive bicycle infrastructure design
Intro: How do we design around
cycling behaviour?
4.1 Why do cyclists break rules?
4.2 Scofflaw cycling
4.3 Swarm behavior
4.4 Pattern Language
Week 5: Final assignment
Key Concepts
Develop a supported reflection essay
on your learnings
Recommend improvements for the
essays of your peers
URBAN CYCLING INSTITUTE
www.urbancyclinginstitute.com
BICYCLE DUTCH
VIDEOS
www.quitobikingadventures.blogspot.com
SMART MOBILITY SMART CITIES SMART TRAVEL SMART DESTINATION
Tourism Specialized Cycling Promoter
Quito - Ecuador
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