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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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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
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Provincie Gelderland
1 PO Box 9090
Arnhem
6800
Netherlands -
Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain
16 Poststrasse
Frankfurt am Main
60329
Germany -
Regionalverband Ruhr
35 Kronprinzenstraße
Essen
45128
Germany -
Verband Region Rhein-Neckar
20-21 P7
Mannheim
68161
Germany -
European Cyclists’ Federation
28 Franklinstraat
Brussels
1000
Belgium -
Flanders’ Bike Valley vzw
85 Beverlosesteenweg
Paal Beringen
3583
Belgium -
Sustrans
2 Cathedral Square, College Green
Bristol
BS1 5DD
United Kingdom -
Stichting NHTV internationale hogeschool Breda
1 Hopmanstraat
Breda
4817 JT
Netherlands -
Provincie Vlaams-Brabant
1 Provincieplein
Leuven
3010
Belgium
Lead partner
| Organisation | Address | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincie Vlaams-Brabant |
1 Provincieplein Leuven 3010 Belgium |
wietse.hermanns@vlaamsbrabant.be | www.vlaamsbrabant.be |
| Name | Contact Name | 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 |
News
Why the CHIPS partners support the EU Cycling Strategy
Posted onDuring the Cycling into the Future event where we launched the CHIPS project, the CHIPS project partners expressed their support for the EU Cycling Strategy. Read more if you want to know why. Read More
Hit the cycle road: The development of an EU Cycling Strategy starts with a chapter on infrastructure
Posted onDoubling cycling in the EU in the next ten years calls for the development of a European cycling strategy. To obtain political support at the highest level, the European Cyclists’ Federation together with the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovakia to the EU and the European CHIPS project kicked off the process with an expert meeting on infrastructure and more specifically cycle highways. Read More
Public Events
Cycle Highway Academies
Video on the 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
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.
