Participants of the Danube Cycle Plans project will be guests of the  Austrian Cycling Summit 2022, which will take place from April 3rd to 5th in Vienna. Besides many interesting presentations and international key note speaches, the “CEE Forum” hosted by Cycle Competence Austria on Monday April 4 and “Danube Cycle Plans” event are some of the highlights in the program.

This year’s Austrian Cycling Summit is organized by Cycle Competence members Fahrrad Wien and Rosinak & Partner, supported by klimaaktiv mobil, the initiative of the Ministry of Climate Action (BMK). It is an annual conference on cycling and the required infrastructure and services. Up to 500 participants from Austria and neighbouring countries will discuss these issues with a special view to climate protection. The conference days are Monday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 5.

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Early arrivers are more than welcome to join the RADpaRADe (Cycle Parade) on Sunday, to cruise around the classic Ring Road and into the green lungs of the Prater with 10.000 Viennese cyclists, taking part in Europe’s largest bicycle open air fair, the ARGUS Bikefestival Vienna.

Photo: Jitka Vrtalova, Partnership for Urban Mobility

CEE Forum: Learning from Europe

The workshop adresses cycling experts form the fields of planning, adminstration and activism. It will host participants of the Danube Cycle Plans project, which covers most of the CEE area and is coordinated by Cycle Competence member Andreas Friedwagner from Verracon, a Viennese mobility expert who was also involved in the development of the Pan-European Masterplan for Cycling Promotion that will be one of the topics of the workshop.

The impulse presentations for the CEE Forum will be held by Áron Halász, Hungarian Cyclists’ Club; Radostina Petrova, Bulgarian Association for Alternative Tourism; Marko Radošević, Ulice za bicikliste and Janko Večerina, Sindikat Biciclista Zagreb. It will be moderated by Cycle Competence platform coordinator Alec Hager: “The workshop focuses on the idea that we all can learn from cycle traffic all over Europe, from each others countries, from established forerunners as well as from innovative climbing nations and small inititiatives, from north to south”.

Place and time: Monday April 4, Vienna City Hall, 16:15-17:45, Room “Nordbuffet”

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Danube Cycle Plans 

Just one day later there is another event taking place in the same room which will focus on Danube Cycle Plans.

The speakers will talk about the following topics:

• Danube Cycle Plans – Putting the Pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion into practice, Andreas Friedwagner, Verracon
• Who are Cycling Ambassadors? Jitka Vrtalová, Czech Partnership for Urban Mobility
• Benefits of bicycle infrastructure projects: an amendment to the CBA methodology, Dániel Tordai, KTI Institut für Verkehrswissenschaften Gemeinnützige GmbH
• SABRINA – Safer Bicycle Routes in the Danube Area, Maria Fleischer, Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit

Text: Radkompetenz Österreich