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More People Cycling More Often: “Take-off” to More Sustainable Transport for Society
International Transport Forum 2011A Delicate Balance: Mobility Rights, Needs, Expectations and Costs
Plenary on May, 26th
Manfred Neun, ECF President
Transport for Society
The Approach: How to get the Right Balance between…..
• Active Mobility: Cycling & Walking
• Public Transport
• Individual motorized Transport
The right to minimum personal mobility
Free space in an urban
environment Rights, such as clean airquality of
service and access,
One of the session’s guiding questions-Approaching it in three different ways!
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Transport for Society
The Approach: Active Mobility!
The Mobility Pyramide2010Network Slomotion – Germany / Switzerland
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Transport for Society
The Approach: Active Mobility!
What’s the right Balance?As little personal motorized transport as
necessary and as much walking and cycling as possible
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Active Mobility and Passive Mobilityin a complementary system
The MobilityPyramide 2010
Transport for Society
How can we achieve…?
A World in Transition
A Social Contract forSustainability
Flagship Report 2011German Advisory Council on Global Change WBGU, Berlin, 2011
… a Change in Transport > The Great Transition to a more Sustainable Society?
The Change must comefrom the Bottom-up!
The bottom-up perspectivein Transport Policy
• Up until now, public space in developed countries is disproportionately used for motorized transport.
• The ownership of a car should not decide whether or not you have access to the majority of public space.
• In bigger cities there is an increasing number of young people who do not have a driver’s license.
• It now time for the public space to be re-cycled: This will give more people equal access to public space and will lead to more sustainable transport outcomes.
All people should have equal rights to access public space!
The Change must comeFrom Bottom-up!
The Principles of a Democratic Society
The Fundamental Changein Transport Values
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CyclingA Fantastic Tool for Changing Transport Systems
and Mobility Behavior
1. If you come from a cost-/benefit-analysis perspective, the better solution is obvious: CYCLING!
2. If you are looking for the best ROIs there is no question about it: CYCLING
3. If you are considering the total overall costs, in relative terms, which mode of transport is much cheaper? The answer: CYCLING
• People are O.K. with this, but politicians see it as ‘too cheap’. They hold close the idea that big public spending is the only way to win votes.
• But shouldn’t they consider these lower costs as an advantage, e.g. in reducing budget deficits ???
Cycling Economy:Success from Bottom-up!
The Principles of a Democratic Society
A great Example from Seville:
• A functioning cycling network
cost 32 million euros, and
transports 66,000 people daily.
• In comparison, Seville’s single-
line metro system cost 600
million Euro and carries only
40,000 people daily …
• and its motorways cost 6 million
Euro per kilometer.(see www.cyclingmobility.com/feature/the-circle-of-life)
The Cycling Economy
The important pointsrelated to these challenges:
1. Fossil Energy & other resources
2. Transport efficiency3. Climate change4. Health5. Growing cities &
quality of urban living
What are Sustainable Investments?
The Change in TransportFor Society!
The Principles of Sustainable Investments
The Cycling EconomyWhat are Sustainable Investments in ‘Transport for Society’?
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Public cycling
Saving & Invest...
E-cycling
Cycling 4 export!
R & D
Cycling Tourism
Energy efficiency
Cycling 4 Health
Cycling 4 society
The Cycling EconomyHave we forgotten anything?
The social and moral dimensions of transport
The Social and Moral Dimensions of Transport
A guiding question to this session’s delicate balance is:
• What are the government’s obligations when it comes to providing mobility?• What is the minimum action required on their part?
1. Is it justifiable to continue with our fossil energy based transport, creating millions of road fatalities?
2. Is it morally justifiable to continue to use so much public space for individualized motorized transport?
3. “Can we continue using a transport system which has such high health costs for society, including increased injuries, obesity, coronary heart diseases and other illnesses related to physical inactivity? Doesn’t this run contrary to our constitutional laws manifesting the right to life and physical integrity?
Cycling for SocietyWhat do Societies need??
Vadana Shiva at Velo-city Global 2010 in Copenhagen:
• “For me, the bicycle is really a deep celebration of our freedom and democracy.”
Cycling for SocietyConclusions & Actions required:
• Transport systems and transport behavior must change. The change must and will come from the bottom up: from the people and from the cities.
• Cycling is a fantastic tool for changing transport systems and mobility behavior. Cycling and the “Cycling Economy”, have an immensely positive impact on energy use, health, the environment and the livability and the economy of developed and developing countries.
• It is not justifiable to continue with our current fossil energy based transport: it creates millions of road fatalities and allows so much public space to be used for individualized motorized transport.
The robust & resilientzero-emission Vehicle
Cycling for SocietyIn good times and bad times: The Principles of a
Democratic Society
Peoples’ rightsto Active Mobility
The Change must comeFrom Bottom-up
The robust & resilientzero-emission Vehicle
Cycling Economy:Success coming from the
Bottom-up
The new Dimensionof Active Mobility + IT
Cycling for SocietyLet’s build up More Sustainable Transport for Society by
More People more Cycling
Cycling for SocietyLet’s build up More Sustainable Transport for Society by getting
More People more CyclingThe Livable City
Five properties of livable cities according to Jan Gehl :
• The lively city• The attractive city• The safe city• The sustainable city• The healthy city
Jan Gehl is a famous architect and urban planner from Copenhagen
The Livable Cityaccording to Jan Gehl
The Livable Cityaccording to Jan Gehl
The Livable Cityaccording to Jan Gehl
The Livable Cityaccording to Jan Gehl
The Livable Cityaccording to Jan Gehl
The Livable Cityaccording to Jan Gehl
Cycling for Society
The Charter of Seville• Addressing above all the 52
ministers of Transport at ITF May 2011 in Leipzig:
More PeopleMore Cycling“9. Safe and comfortable
infrastructure for cycling enables young and elderly people to be mobile by using a healthy and environmentally friendly mode of transport.”
Seville, March 25th 2011
