FLOW Quick Facts for cities

Basic Information

Language

English, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

Latest update

Price

Free

Tool type

Guidance document / Manual Other


Application area

  • Analysis, scenarios and measure selection
  • Dissemination and communication

Target Audience

  • Small cities
  • Medium-sized cities
  • Large cities
  • Metropolitan regions

Summary

What happens when you remove a car lane to put in a new bicycle lane? Or you give pedestrians more time to cross a busy road? FLOW published a new collection of Quick Facts from cities who measured the impact pedestrian and cyclist measures have on congestion.

The CIVITAS FLOW project has collected 15 Quick Factsto provide cities with evidence of how walking and cycling measures can not only improve conditions for pedestrians and cyclists, but also reduce congestion. From a FLOW survey we know that nearly half of European political and administrative decision makers worry about congestion when introducing walking (41%) and cycling (48%) measures. But there's growing evidence that walking and cycling measures can actually help reduce congestion in cities. The FLOW Quick Facts describe some surprising results about overall transport efficiency that has been achieved while improving conditions for walking and cycling.

So rather than fearing increased congestion when they improve conditions for walking and cycling, we hope the FLOW Quick Facts help inspire city officials to make bold decisions for their city’s streets and for the liveability of their city. Active travel can be part of the solution to increase capacity and improve the flow of traffic – for everyone.

Download the FLOW Quick Facts here.

The FLOW Quick Facts are available in 8 languages:

The translation into French, Italian and Ukrainian is in progress. Please visit the FLOW website for updates: http://h2020-flow.eu/

Contact:

FLOW Dissemination Manager

Polis network: Dagmar Köhler, dkoehler [at] polisnetwork [dot] eu, Pasquale Cancellara, PCancellara [at] polisnetwork [dot] eu

FLOW Project Coordinator: Rupprecht Consult: Bonnie Fenton, Kristin Tovaas b [dot] fenton [at] rupprecht-consult [dot] eu, k [dot] tovaas [at] rupprecht-consult [dot] eu

Good Example

Narrowing roads in Lisbon to reduce crossing distance for pedestrians does not increase congestion:

FLOW partner city Lisbon reduced the crossing distance and the curve radii on busy Alexandre Herculano Street in the city centre. This change in the intersection layout makes pedestrians feel safer (+18%) and less pressured to rush across the street (-14%). This widening of the sidewalk did not increase congestion despite the reduction of road space for cars.

Contacts

EU Horizon 2020 project FLOW

Lead of the tool development: FLOW

pcancellara [at] polisnetwork.eu; dkoehler

+32484066463

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