The document summarizes Barcelona's efforts to promote cycling through the SPICYCLES EU project from 2006 to 2008. It describes the implementation of a large-scale public bike sharing system called Bicing, which grew from a 200-bike pilot program to a citywide network of 6,000 bikes and 400 stations. It also discusses the development of a cycling master plan, increased cycling infrastructure like bike lanes and parking, and education and awareness campaigns that helped increase Barcelona's cycling mode share from 0.75% to 1.76% over the course of the project.

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5. CCB: Civic Commission for the Bicycle Infrastructures Group Plans and develops projects which include cyclist infrastructures (parking stands, bike lanes, signalling). Promotion Group Promotes bicycle use among the citizens, visitors, enterprises and institutions. Management Group Develops projects in order to provide more bicycle services to citizens (ex: bike rental). Barcelona Municipality leads WP6: Partnerships, building upon a Civic Commission established in 1994

6. Prior to SPICYCLES (1/2): In the post-1992-Olympics period, the CCB has had considerable success in coordinating municipal depts & associations to develop infrastructure….. “ BICING” public bike scheme

7. .. but the cycling mode share was only 0,75% in 2005... … in spite of Communications aimed at promoting the benefits of cycling… .. And with the Cycling Master Plan still under development 2006 Spicycles benchmark : silver Prior to SPICYCLES (2/2):

13. The Barcelona Bicing case is being widely studied; this example shows work by London TfL’s preliminary specificaction (source: OBIS)

15. Marketing with schools : 2008: 12 schools, 781 students 2007: 12 schools, 876 students 2006: 12 schools, 959 students Over 3 years, a total of 2,616 school pupils have participated in this Communication Action

16. Bike Week : - Celebrated annually. - Over 25.000 leaflets produced & distributed. - Includes: information point, courses on how to drive a bicycle, how to repair your bicycle, free reflective materials, free bike loans, route rides for companies, kids bike circuit, mass rides, etc. - Promotions of the WP6 cycle registration scheme.

18. Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona, 29 & 30 of Nov. 2007 - In response to initial success & continued development of the Bicing scheme, Barcelona Municipality collaborated with National Institution for Energy Diversification (IDAE) & the Territory Department of the Government of Catalonia, organising this conference. http:// www.bicicletapublica.org /

22. Cycling Master Plan One of the main initiatives to promote cycling in a coordinated manner is the development of a Cycle Master Plan, something that Barcelona achieved in the first year of the project. The CMP actions envisaged in SPICYCLES were: • Cycling infrastructure (lanes & parking places) • Cycles counts & monitoring

24. Cycle Monitoring (1/2) The first count sites were presented to Spicycles delegates in June 2006. By the end of the year, counts registered at 16 permanent sites were processed. Total volume of average daily cycle traffic: 27.111 units in 2006 36.917 during 2007 Manual counts attributed three-quarters of the total 36,2% growth in cycle traffic to the Bicing scheme (of 1.500 bikes at that time).

25. Cycle Monitoring (2/2) The intelligence of the monitoring system is used to produce a cycle traffic map. This helps planners to identify the sections carrying heaviest traffic, and needs for new connecting links.

27. Infrastructures Group Plans and develops projects which include cyclist infrastructures (parking stands, bike lanes, signalling). Promotion Group Promotes bicycle use among the citizens, visitors, enterprises and institutions. The work of the CCB, (30+ actors, reported in Del.6.1) has guided the actions implemented, especially in WPs 4, 5 & 6 CCB: Civic Commission for the Bicycle Management Group Develops projects in order to provide more bicycle services to citizens (ex: bike rental).

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