3. Central European Greenways
Framework for cooperation,
Forum for exchange of ideas, good practices, brainstorming
Methodology for implementation
Legal framework for funding
Links to other organizations (EGWA, ECF, Sustrans, PPS)
BG, CR, HU, PL, RO, SK, DE, A, BR, SR, UA, USA, FR, UK, BE
7. Two Main Directions
1. Implementing Sustainable Mobility Many knock on
2. Promoting Economic Development Benefits
Reducing environmental impact
Healthier, more active societies
Reduction of carbon footprint
Protecting cultural and
natural heritage
Promoting public participation
Changing individual behavior
8. Why Sustainable Mobility?
73 % of the population
lives in urban areas
73% (2005) to 78.0% in 2025
Since 1989 CEE has lowered its CO2 in
every area Except TRANSPORT
13. Greenways and Sustainable Mobility
Beyond sport and leisure
Daily mobility On average, people make 3 trips per day,
spending 1 hour travelling
Activities Only 1 in 5 trips is work-related
Spatial orientation
5 out of 6 trips begin or end at home
10% of car trips are not further than 1km
Car usage
30% not further than 3km
50% not further than 5km
14. Transportation Paradigm Shift
Old Paradigm New Paradigm
• Large area planning • Small area planning
• Arterials • Boulevards
• Access to shopping centers • Access to corner markets
• Retail market area - large • Retail Market area - small
• Single family bedroom • Mixed residential/office/services
communities with local businesses
• Big roads, wide intersections, and • Bike paths, sidewalks, narrow
parking lots streets, and transit
• Big solutions • Small solutions (road connectivity,
(interstates/bypasses) context sensitivity)
• Standards-based (Green Book) • Place-based
• Performance is about transport • Performance is about access and
sense of place
15. Greenways are sustainable mobility
Soon the choice will not be between your car or your bike, but between your car or your future
Greenways provide:
Safe infrastructure
Non-motorized transport
Innovative ideas:
•Mobility Plans
•Safe Routes to Schools
•Traffic calming
16. Mobility Plan Manuals
a strategy to help an organization or locality
reduce its transport impacts and influences the
travel behavior of its employees, suppliers,
visitors and/or customers.
reducing or limiting individual automobile
transport to the lowest possible level and
increasing the level of environmentally
responsible transport.
17. Safe Routes to School –
Czech Republic
School mobility plans, mapping problematic places, creating solutions
19. Statistics
• The Little Miami Scenic Trail is very popular, with over 150,000 users per
year. On a weekend day, users include over 400 bicyclists and almost 200
pedestrians. Trail users spend an average of $13.54 per visit on food and
auto expenses and $277 per year on related clothing and equipment
• for every foot closer to the Little Miami Scenic Trail a single-family
residential property is located, its sale price increases by $7.05
• The Mispillion River Greenway in Delaware is credited with creating 250
jobs in the last 10 years.
• 61 business located along the Missouri River State Trail reported that the
trail was having a positive effect on their businesses. Eleven of the
businesses reported that the trail had strongly influenced their decision to
establish their business, and 17 (28%) had increased the size of their
investment since the trail had opened
20. CYCLIST WELCOME: Based on German, Austrian and French
certification schemes: Bett und Bike
Czech Republic:
1000 certified tourist services
Cooperation with internet server and cycling web pages
Slovakia:
Transferred in 2008: around 80 certified
Poland:
Bike Friendly, Clean Tourism
Romania: Transylvania
Authentica
27. Polish Greenways
Stronger links to Eurovelo
Greenways Methodology
Association (Hungary)
Cycling coordinators
Mobility planning/master
Adopt an integrated approach
to both mobility and tourism
beyond cycling
28. • Greenways are a tools for sustainable development
• Greenways concept is attractive and internationally accepted
• CEG has accumulated a large database of know-how.
• The program is managed by a well-motivated team
• Greenways is an increasingly strong Brand
• Geographic corridors for sustainable development projects &
initiatives that connect municipalities, regions, countries
•Mobility – jobs.
29. More information
Central European Greenways:
CEG: http://www.environmentalpartnership.org/regionalceg/
Czech Greenways:http://www.nadacepartnerstvi.cz/greenways
Hungarian Greenways:http://zoldutak.hu/
Slovak Greenways
Polish Greenways: http://greenways.pl/en/blog/news
Romanian Greenways: http://greenways.ro/
Cycling in Central Europe:
FoCG: http://pragueviennagreenways.org/
Top Bicycle: http://www.topbicycle.com/
Greenways Travel Club: http://www.visitgreenways.com/
National Cycle Strategy CR: http://www.cyklostrategie.cz/en/tourism/
Velo-touring Hungary: http://www.cyclehungary.com/
Cycling Slovakia: http://www.cyclingslovakia.com/index.php?menuid=2
