Please allow me to introduce an upcoming research project on Cyclism:
'Bikeability: Cities for zero emission and public health' which has just
been granted by The Danish Council for Strategic Research. The project
will run until 2013.

Full project description, project progress and results will be made
available via www.bikeability.dk (the domain has be purchased, but we
are still waiting for the final approval).

The project consists of 5 interrelated workpackages (WPs) focusing on
different scales and aspects of the analysis of cycling in relation to
urban structure and bicycling infrastructure.
- WP1: Cycling behaviour and its preconditions will analyse the
determinants for cycling behaviour of individuals, such as motives,
lifestyles, opportunities and constraints.  Emphasis is on the role of
critical factors for cycling in the population as a whole, including
also regional and urban context and the contribution of Bike-ability, as
elaborated in WP2. 

- WP2: Environmental determinants for bike-ability will link GIS data
with objective and subjective measures of cycling in relation to the
conditions of selected neighbourhoods to develop a validated
bike-ability index tailored to the Danish urban context, but applicable
in other regions. 

- WP3: Choice modelling for simulation of bicyclist behaviour develops
an agent based modelling (ABM) approach to simulate the flow of
individual bicyclists in urban areas as a response to changes to the
urban environment (bicycle tracks, bridges over heavy loaded traffic
corridors, urban greening etc.) and the level of and attitude to bicycle
transport. The ABM approach is a methodology for upscaling of knowledge
of individual behaviours to city or neighbourhood level. The ABM
approach will reply on conceptual and parametric knowledge created in
WP1, WP2, and WP4.

- WP4: Interventions to the bicycling infrastructure will analyze
bicycle infrastructure cases in the Danish municipalities and The
Netherlands; their implementation and significance in terms of
contribution to the promotion of cycling, and finally identify
infrastructure and elements of interventions that can help promote
cycling significantly. 
WP5: Planning Guidance and Dissemination serves the purpose of
presenting the project*s methodological advances, tools, and
conclusions to policy-makers, planners and traffic engineers, as well as
maintaining the dialog and interaction with end-users from the
municipalities. 

Managing project partners:
Gertrud Jørgensen (GEJ), University of Copenhagen (KU) -
[log in to unmask]: Project leader
Hans Skov-Petersen (HSP), University of Copenhagen (KU) -
[log in to unmask]: Project coordinator and WP3 leader
Thomas Sick Nielsen (TSN), University of Copenhagen (KU) -
[log in to unmask]: Project coordinator and WP1 leader
Henrik Haarder (HHA), Aalborg University (AAU) - [log in to unmask]: WP4
leader
Jens Troelsen (JTR), University of Southern Denmark (SDU) -
[log in to unmask]: WP2 leader
Morten Strunge Meier (MSM), Danish Cancer Society (DCS) - [log in to unmask]:
WP5 leader
Lise Bjørg Petersen (LBP), Danish Cycling Federation (DCF) -
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Cornelis Dirk (Kees) van Goeverden, Delft University of Technology
(TUDelft, the Netherlands)- [log in to unmask]
Roelof Wittink, I-CE, Interface for cycling Expertise (the Netherlands)
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Education and positions:
The project will include three PhD posts (related to WP1, WP2 and WP3).
Advertisements for WP1 and WP3 will be published shortly.

Sincerely
Hans Skov-Petersen
http://en.sl.life.ku.dk/omskovoglandskab/medarbejdere/hsp.aspx?