Cycling in Germany- and also in many countries in Europe and all over the world-has become more relevant in recent years especially due to the corona pandemic. People have been afraid using public transport and tend to use individual means of transport more intensive. Many cities across Europe supported cycling and pop-up cycle lanes were marked on streets with yellow lines in order to give cyclists more space for safe and comfortable riding. Cities like Brussels, Vienna or Berlin implemented these kinds of ''unconventional' infrastructure in 2020 during tbe first Corona lockdowns. Though, evaluations have shown that the use of these pop-up lanes led to increasing numbers of users on these tracks, these tracks were marked only on a marginal share of the streets in contrast to the whole cycling network of a city. Other indicators depicting that cycling is advancing are the numbers of sales and the increased willingness to pay for a new bicycle. In Germany, the average price over all sold bicycles in 2021 was about €1,400 EUR. Compared to 2019 (€929 per bike) this is an increase ofabout 50%. This increase of sales numbers of e-bikes explains this increase. In 2021 about two million e-bikes were sold in Germany in contrast to 2. 7 million conventional bikes. The overall market value of sold bicycles in Germany was 6.56 billion euros which is an increase by 60% in comparison to 2011. Nevertheless, a recent Germany-wide survey with over 11,000 participants shows that 91 % of tbe cyclists feel unsafe in Gennan traffic. 69% state that the keeping too little distance between other traffic participants is one of the reasons that people feel unsafe in traffic. The survey also reveals that the feeling of safety would increase by building more bicycle infrastructure (81%) and a clear separation between motorized and nonmotorized
traffic (62%). [from Introduction]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:82396 |
| Date | 03 January 2023 |
| Creators | Rudolph, Christian, Lammet, Marie, Metzler, Simon, lngram, Zoe |
| Publisher | Technische Universität Dresden |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-813602, qucosa:81360 |
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