CHIPS

Project Summary

CHIPS (Cycle Highways Innovation for smarter People Transport and Spatial Planning) will develop and promote cycle highways as an effective and cost efficient low carbon solution for commuting towards and from urban employment poles. CHIPS will demonstrate that, especially in combination with the growing number of e-bikes, cycle highway innovation can effectively get commuters out of their cars.

Project partners from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK will develop solutions that will help regions and mobility stakeholders to:

  • Position cycle highways as a new mobility product
  • Overcome physical and behavioural barriers that keep commuters from using cycle highways
  • Maximize synergies between cycle highways and trains, buses and cars
  • Upgrade cycle highways to key structuring elements in future spatial planning
  • Monitor performance and assess impact

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Use this link to join the CHIPS Cycle Highway Academy Group on Linkedin. Click on the "Ask to join" button.

CHIPS Linkedin Group

F3 - Leuven-Brussels in the Province of Flemish Brabant (Belgium)

Comber Greenway in Belfast (Ireland)

Cycle Highway Frankfurt Airport - City center in Frankfurt (Germany)

Rijnwaalpad in the Province of Gelderland (the Netherlands)

Hart van Brabantroute in the Province of North Brabant (the Netherlands)

Project Partners

Lead partner

Organisation Address Email Website
Provincie Vlaams-Brabant 1 Provincieplein
Leuven
3010
Belgium 		wietse.hermanns@vlaamsbrabant.be www.vlaamsbrabant.be
Name Contact Name Email Country
Provincie Gelderland Frank Eggen f.eggen@gelderland.nl Netherlands
Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain Reinhard Henke henke@region-frankfurt.de Germany
Regionalverband Ruhr Thomas Pott pott@rvr-online.de Germany
Verband Region Rhein-Neckar Klemens Groeger Klemens.groeger@vrrn.de Germany
European Cyclists’ Federation Aleksander Buczyński a.buczynski@ecf.com Belgium
Flanders’ Bike Valley vzw Bert Celis bert.celis@flandersbikevalley.be Belgium
Sustrans Gordon Clarke gordon.clarke@sustrans.org.uk United Kingdom
Stichting NHTV internationale hogeschool Breda Joost de Kruijf kruijf.j@nhtv.nl Netherlands
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News

London Quietways

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Quietways are a new concept in London, complementary to cycle superhighways. While superhighways often follow the main roads with separated cycle paths to provide the fastest and most direct route, quietways lead through residential streets, making use of ‘filtered permeability’, with only short connecting stretches of dedicated cycle infrastructure where necessary. Read More

A cycle bridge along a river

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Usually bridges are built across rivers, but there are exceptions. On the F1 cycle highway a 100-metre cycling bridge was built along the river Vrouwvliet and under two railroad bridges. This sounds quite complicated, but in fact it provides an easy way to get to the other side of a primary railroad line. Read More

F1 to connect two biggest Belgian agglomerations

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Extension of the F1 cycle highway towards Brussels is a complex task, requiring cooperation of many actors. We took a look at what is happening on a 4 km stretch near Zemst. The completed, on-going and soon starting investments include two cycling bridges, redistribution of carriageway on a national road, a new safe crossing, construction of new and upgrade of existing cycling paths. Read More

Public Events

Cycle Highway Academies

Video on the Cycle Highway Definition

Video on Cycle Highway Definition

A Cycle Highway is a mobility product that provides a high quality functional cycling connection. As backbone of a cycle network, it connects cities and or suburbs, residential areas and major (work)places and it satisfies its (potential) users.

A definition of a Cycle Highway according to CHIPS

The 4 phases of the Life Cycle Highway

Life Cycle Highway
The Life Cycle Highway Explained

The CHIPS project partners have created a four-stage approach to develop cycle highways.

tage 1 PLAN involves planning the cycle highway where the focus is on the potential use of the new infrastructure and the impact for the region. A cycle highway facilitates citizens to move by bicycle from one place to another. It connects residential areas with business districts, city centers or transportation hubs. To determine the right location and make the right connection a calculation of the expected use is needed, taking into account the future developments to plan a future proof cycle highway. The virtual planning tool is one of the useful tools of this stage.

 

In the second DESIGN AND BUILD stage different criteria are distinguished to design a cycle highway. The challenge is to design the best suitable cycle highway for that specific location. Therefor different criteria such as attractiveness, wayfinding, size and directness have to be taken into account. Guidelines for the infrastructure and best practices of cycle facilities can be used for this stage.

 

Stage 3 SELL focus on promoting the cycle highways by using different campaigns. Communication and campaigns will help to stimulate (new) cyclists to use the cycle highway. Commuters are the main target group. The engagement of employers is key to reach the commuters and create a modal shift from car to (e)-bike. How do you brand and sell the cycle highway?

 

In the last stage EVALUATE the use of the cycle highway is monitored to get insights in the effects of the development. Are people using the new cycle infrastructure? There are several methods to collect data about the use of the infrastructure. By monitoring the use the effect on CO2 reduction can be calculated.

Introduction to CHIPS

Introduction to CHIPS

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