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Germany's National Cycling Plan

Germany's national cycling strategy 2002-2012 aims to promote cycling in Germany as part of a sustainable, integrated transport policy. In 2002, the German National Cycling Plan (Nationaler Radverkehrsplan) was adopted by the government.

Its aim is to increase bicycle use and road safety considerably by 2012 and to promote healthy and environmentally friendly local mobility in accordance with the concept of the “city of short distances”.

The National Cycling Plan is available in English, French, Russian and Spanish. Full text download:
www.nationaler-radverkehrsplan.de/eu-bund-laender/bund/

Website on Cycling

The website www.nationaler-radverkehrsplan.de / www.nrvp.de on Germany's National Cycling Plan was launched in 2004/2005 on behalf of the Federal Government by Difu, the German Institute of Urban Affairs. It was developed in close cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and the Joint Working Group on Cycling.

It is a special service for people working with or interested in cycling, i.e. people working in state and municipal administrations, experts, researchers and interest groups. The website is mainly in German but there are some documents available for download in English, French and other languages.

Furthermore, a platform for registered users serves as a communications platform for those who are engaged in the implementation of the National Cycling Plan. It also helps to promote contacts between the various players representing the Federal Government, the federal states, the local authorities and external experts. These groups of users have access to an internal, password-protected area where internal documents, event schedules, news and discussion forums can be posted. It also provides the opportunity to exchange electronic documents.

Contents

The main site is publicly accessible. It provides experts and the general public with all kinds of information on how to promote cycling as part of a sustainable transport policy:

  • Events
  • News
  • Information from the EU, the German Federal Government and the German federal states
  • Examples of good practice
  • Internet links
  • Literature database
  • A newsletter is published regularly (in German only)

Two thirds of the contents (i.e. news, events, literature, good practice) are about Germany, one third is information from abroad. Since most of the web pages are in German, access to the complete menu structure is up to now available only through the German entry page www.nationaler-radverkehrsplan.de

English Texts within the Portal

As long as we don't have the possibility to display all english texts automatically through the english section, here is a manual selection of english information available within the portal:

1. The German National Cycling Plan 2002-2012

www.nationaler-radverkehrsplan.de/eu-bund-laender/bund/

2. Activities and Information by European Institutions and European Research Erogrammes

www.nationaler-radverkehrsplan.de/eu-bund-laender/eu/

3. Good Practice Examples

4. Bicycle Research Report

The Bicycle Research Report, published monthly by the European Cyclists' Federation from 1990 to 2005, contained a summary in English, French and German (and originally also in Spanish) of a research report. In all, 178 reports were published. Not all reports are downloadable (but we try to make them available until Dec. 2008):
www.nationaler-radverkehrsplan.de/eu-bund-laender/eu/brr/

5. News

Promoting Information from Abroad

  • Do you know of any interesting non-German websites?
  • Would you like to supply Germany 's cycling experts with information on good practice from abroad?
  • Would you like to foster the international exchange of information on good cycling strategies and policies?
  • Do you know of any events which may also be of interest for people from other European countries?

If you do, then let us know.

Doris Reichel
Phone: +49 30 / 39 001-233
Fax: +49 30 / 39 001-160
Email: reichel@difu.de

Tilman Bracher
Phone: +49 30 / 39 001-260
Fax: +49 30 / 39 001-241
Email: bracher@difu.de

Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik (Difu)
Straße des 17. Juni 112
D-10623 Berlin
www.difu.de

You can correspond with us in English, German, (French)