Cycling England : Engineering

Engineering and Planning

Cycle friendly infrastructure and complementary measures are the building blocks that lead to greater levels of cycling and Cycling England's Design Checklist and Smart Measures Portfolio can help with this.

Cycling England has compiled a table listing sources of funding for capital and revenue projects.

Please click here to see Cycling England's Gallery, demonstrating cycling friendly infrastructure.

Scheme of the Month - York District Hospital Travel Plan

Cycle friendly infrastructure should reflect the needs of each location follow the hierarchy of solutions and give advantage to non-motorised road users. Cycling England encourages the flexible interpretation of design guidance and the trialling of innovative designs, using experimental schemes where appropriate.

This website also includes a gallery of examples of good practice and a simple Design Checklist to help planners and designers ensure that their projects create cycle friendly infrastructure. This checklist includes links to concise guidance and examples, with further links to the web-available technical documents on which the advice is based.

Cycling England’s Smart Measures Portfolio deals with measures that complement infrastructure such as incentives, information, training and promotion.

LOCAL AUTHORITY MEMBERS' SUPPORT

Cycling England Members' Support initiative has been launched to support designated Member Champions for Cycling in local authorities.

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT
Cycling England has appointed an expert team to work with local authorities and other organisations. The professional support team will provide technical support and advice on policy, engineering, education, training and publicity about cycling, to enable local authorities to achieve maximum return from their investment in cycling.

Recent reports are listed under Latest 5 Documents below. You can access a selection of the advice provided under the following topic headings:

If your authority is keen to promote cycling and needs specific expertise, please don't hesitate to contact the team coordinator at tony.russell@cyclingengland.co.uk or download a Request for Support form here.

LOCAL AUTHORITY CYCLING ASSOCIATION

The Local Authority Cycling Association (LACA) has launched its web site, which is includes information on forthcoming events and training courses.