This handbook provides detailed information on how to develop cycling-friendly policies and facilities. It can help you, as a planner, engineer, community leader of advocate to enrich your own ideas about the future traffic and transport system where you live and work. It has been written by 12 authors who are experts in different fields of cycling-inclusive development.

The handbook covers the following issues:

Introduction: learning from others’ successes and failures
From car-based to people entered cities
Ideas that shape urban form – and how urban form shapes us
Getting organized: managing and implementing the policy –making process
Five main requirements for cycling-inclusive infrastructure
Identifying bicycle networks for better cities
Design: making choices that fit local conditions
Designing for cycling makes residential and central business district streets better – for all
Designing for cycling along main roads and highways
Bicycle parking: tools for success
Building a multi-modal transport system: integrating cycling and public transportation
Cycling-friendly regulations for sustainable cities
Social marketing and citizens’ participation: good relationships build better cycling facilities
Education, awareness building and advocacy
Researching cycling needs and possibilities