Development of Bicycle Transport in the City of Sofia as Part of the Concept for Stable Urban Mobility

2018 9th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology

生态环境科学

Tzvetkova, S.D.^1

University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria^1

关键词: Bicycle infrastructures;    Bicycle traffics;    Economic prosperity;    European Commission;    Public transport;    Quality of life;    Transport systems;    Urban transport systems;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/182/1/012019/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/182/1/012019

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The concept for Stable Urban Mobility, included in the European Commission's Green Papter titled "Towards a New Urban Mobility Culture", consists of encouraging the combination of different types of public transport with different types of individual transport. The new concept for urban mobility also suggests reaching common goals for economic prosperity and recognizing the right to mobility by managing the quality of life and protecting the environment. The Green Paper states the following: "Encouraging walking, cycling and constructing the appropriate infrastructure" which makes it clear that bicycle transport and its related infrastructure are an inseparable part of stable urban mobility. However, the city of Sofia presently does not have a developed bicycle infrastructure. Incorporating bicycle traffic within the city's transport framework is not only necessary, it has to become a part of the priorities of the city's transport system. The purpose of the report is to substantiate the necessity for the development of bicycle transport in Sofia and to indicate the guidelines for its future development. The more stably built an urban transport system is and the more corresponding it is to citizens' needs and to the problems of modern urbanized environments, the higher the guarantees are for the city's stable development in society's favor.