Innovations in Road Design Dutch ideas for UK Roads

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Innovations in Road DesignDutch ideas for UK
Roads

• Adrian Lord
• Chartered Institute of
• Logistics and Transport

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Five Criteria

• Direct least distance and time
• Coherent continuous appropriate provision
• Comfortable physically and mentally
• Attractive to all intended users
• Safe

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What is a cycle route?

• Gives sufficient advantage to attract would be
  cyclists
• Makes it clear that cyclists (and pedestrians)
  are valued travellers in the cycling town, in a
  modern city and in the 21st Century

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Successes New Road
Brighton
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7 Dials, London
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Selly Oak
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Digbeth
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Cycle \Lanes
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Paris
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Challenges

• Self explaining roads?
• Reconfigure whole highway not just a cycle
  facility
• Legal issues one-way cycle tracks, parallel
  crossings, low-level signals
• Driver behaviour e.g. lane markings, junctions

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Thank you!

• Adrian Lord
• Tel [phone]
• E adrian.lord_at_sdgworld.net