Promoting cycling has the chance to further climate protection in two ways and can thus contribute to sustainable mobility.
1. Cycling offers the opportunity of daily zero-emission mobility and replaces fossil fuel driven vehicles.
2. As a facet of urban development, cycling enhances the attractiveness of urban areas, creates a new structure of local mobility and, in doing so, replaces traffic volumes. Hence, different strategies can contribute to the encouragement of bicycle use and climate friendly urban mobility.
• Traffic saving patterns of settlement, e.g. through the development of dense urban neighbourhoods and the avoidance of long distances.
• Comprehensive approaches to influence the mobility patterns of the population, which are bundled under the term ‚mobility management‘.
• Promotion of climate friendly modes of transport like the bicycle: A consistent support of cycling includes infrastructural and non-infrastructural measures, as well as the co-operation and coordination of various stakeholders.
Furthermore, the aspect of climate protection itself can legitimize the promotion of cycling and serve as the starting point for corresponding campaigns.