European cities for integrating cycling within sustainable mobility management schemes
BACKGROUND
Challenges and benefits from the systematic integration of cycling into urban mobility management schemes include: Reduced congestion (30% of car trips in Europe are under 3km, and 50% are under 5km – a 15 minute bike ride); Improved productivity (less work hours wasted in traffic congestion); Reduction of costs for infrastructure (road construction and maintenance) and equipment; Lower-carbon footprint (urban transport accounts for 40% of CO2 emissions and 70% of other air pollution); Reduced land consumption; Public health benefits; Fostering of investment and neighbourhood revitalisation. As a result sustainable regional development can be significantly enhanced for European cities.

OBJECTIVES
CYCLECITIES aims to carry out transfers of experience and exchanges of good practice among European cities, as well as to build up a knowledge capital regarding the integration of cycling into urban mobility management schemes. The project, aims in particular to:
1) Exchange experiences and make available transferable good practices on mobility management and cycling.
2) Explore & build consensus on policies contributing to sustainable European mobility management schemes.
3) Develop knowledge outcomes supporting the transfer of experiences and establish a European, multilingual, freely-accessible knowledge and experience base.
4) Disseminate the field experiences and good practices project results, enhancing awareness on the integration of cycling in cities’ mobility management schemes.

MAIN OUTPUTS 
1) Good practice guides (4) on land use planning, on cities’ mobility management strategies, on citizens’ participation practices and on cycling architectural infrastructure;
2) 10 dissemination events (3 conferences and 7 fora);
3) 9 interregional study visits and workshops, exchanging experiences & good practices;
4) Data on existing cycling infrastructures and bike-sharing systems;
5) 7 regional implementation plans developed;
6) Studies, reports and policy tools.

MAIN RESULTS
- Over 1500 participants in the dissemination events;
- 410 participants in the interregional events;
- Increased capacity of 40 staff members from the consortium and 240 staff from other organisations on the issue tackled by the operation;
- The expression of interest of 21 policy-makers to use the management game and of 21 European cities’ to integrate the methodologies and policy instruments in their policy-making processes;
- At least 3 regional policies on cycling and mobility management aimed to be improved.

PARTNERSHIP
Several big and medium sized European cities are represented in the consortium (Lisbon, Piraeus – lead partner, London Borough of Merton, Gdansk, Leipzig, Genoa and Ljubljana), which is supported by the National Technical University of Athens, who specialises in mobility management analysis.