Health Bikers - Lund, Sweden
Type: CaseStudy
Synopsis
Ten people living in Sandby who used to commute by car signed an agreement to cycle to work for a whole year. The home - work distance each way was between 6 and 18 km. Lund is one of the most bicycle friendly towns in Sweden. The Bicycle City initiative, part of the city's sustainable transport strategy LundaMaTs, aims at improving the situation for bicycles even more through 5 main projects, so as to make Lund a bicycle city of true European dignity:
- high priority to bicycle traffic,
- improving infrastructure by creating an extensive network of bicycle paths,
- organisational improvements through the creation of a bicycle group and centre,
- maintaining bicycle safety through preventing an increase in bicycle accidents as bicycle traffic increases,
- scientific evaluation of projects.
The Health Bikers Project was carried out by Lund's Mobility Centre, which aims to trigger and assist in the development of more sustainable transport in Lund, through mobility consulting, information services and awareness raising about environmental and health implications of traffic. The Health Bikers project was tested in Soedra Sandby, a village near Lund which functions as a kind of laboratory as to what extent it is possible to change travel modes only by combining different mobility management activities.
Target groups: car users
Fields: cycling
This case study is one of 175 projects from the Smile Project Local Experiences Database listed on this website.
