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Pedelec Best Practices

Best Practices on pedelecs especially for municipal decision makers now available for download!

Austria

Active Access download
Within the EU project „Active Access“
a pedelec test among 20 elderly citizens
in Graz was conducted. Read here the
findings and the results of the test.

Almenland download
Within a cooperation of the naturepark
„Almenland“ and „Verbund“, Austria's
biggest electricity utility, a pedelec
rental system was set up. This example
shows how a pedelec rental system can
be implemented in a touristic region.

Wien Energie download
Wien Energie, Vienna's biggest energy
provider and KTM, an Austrian bike
company, set up a big pedelec test
initiative. During two months 50 people
extensively tested pedelecs and shared
their experiences in an online blo

Landrad download
In Vorarlberg, a province of Austria,
an extensive research project with
500 pedelecs was conducted.
Read here the findings and the
results of the test.

Wörthersee download
In this best practice a pedelec rental
system in the Wörthersee lake region
in Carinthia, Austria, is introduced.
Read here how the project was
realized.

Spar download
The Austrian food store chain „Spar“
set up several initiatives in the field
of pedelecs such as for example the
erection of electricity charging
stations in front of their shops.

Let's go solar download
Read here how a youth centre in
the Austrian province Vorarlberg
promotes the use of pedelecs
among young people.

  

 

Czech Republic

Tanec Praha download
It is time to replace ordinary
vehicles with electrical ones.
Read here how to use
electric bikes in festival
events.

Green map Praha download
Read here about a new map not 
only for cyclists which helps with
the orientation in Prague and
provides information how to
move comfortably, easily and
fast within the city.
Gadgets download
To make electric bikes more
practical and efficient, we
present here an additional
equipment for your e-bike.
Bike training download
Read here how to safely ride
your e-bike.
Ebike rental in Pec download
Practical example on how to use
e-bikes in tourism.
PREkolo ebike rental download
A cooperation between e-bike company
and electricity provider makes e-bike
rental in Prague possible.
Fleet for Vodafone download
Read here more about how
employees of Vodafone are using
e-bikes on a daily basis.
Strike on bike download
Is there anything positive about
strike in public transport?
Yes, there is. Read here.

Advertisment with ebikes download
This practice shows how e-bikes could
be a very attractive and remarkable
promotion.

Ebikes in contest download
Would you like to know how e-bikes
manage to combat with normal bikes?
Read more here about the results.
  

Germany
Stuttgart download
Aachen download
ZUMO download
Allgäu download
Soest downloadAachen download
Stuttgart e-call-a-bike
download
  

Hungary
GPS based cycling path download
 
Italy
National financial incentives download
The Ministry of Environment has issued
a call for projects for bike-sharing
measures with pedelecs combined with
energy efficiency and renewables
(innovative systems, installation of
charging stations, use of renewable
energy).
Pedelec rental - Bicincittà download
Through the use of an electronic pass, each
individual user can take his bicycle or
pedelec from any bike-parking stand
present in the city and return it wherever
they find an open parking space - even in
a different rack from the original.
Municipality of Brescia download
The aim of the campaign called
“today I try another way” was to
convert municipalities employees
who use cars to get to work using
pedelec and to reduce traffic,
during working hours and lunch
break.
University of Catania - Probici download
Employees, researchers and professors
of Catania University can borrow a
pedelec and use it for work-based trips,
thus avoiding to use University cars or
their own vehicles.
Municipality incentives of Naples download
To encourage people to use electric scooters
and pedelecs the municipality of Naples and
manufacturers of electric vehicles signed a
joint agreement: the municipality paid 40% of
the production cost of these scooters, and
the manufacturer applied a 15% discount to
the sales price.
Veneto region download
Veneto Region has carried out an
awareness campaign financing the
purchase of pedelecs and providing
€360,000 for capital towns Venice,
Verona, Treviso, Padua and
Rovigo. In order to regulate the
initiative, a “Letter of Intent” signed
by the Veneto Region and pedelecs
retailers/manufacturers has been
prepared.
Pescara download
A Pescara Company, in 2010 launched
an incentive plan to help own employees
to purchase a pedelec to be used both
for travel from home to work, both for
leisure, financing the 60-70% of the
pedelec value and the remaining part
could be paid in 14 months, and
deducted from their payslip, without
interest rates.
Bologna - BIBO download
With own resources, a group of active
citizens called "Primavera urbana”,
purchased an electric rickshaw and put
it at the disposal of citizens, with the help
of volunteers cyclists who carrying, for
free, all the people who need to travel
within the historical city center.
 

Netherlands
Bicycle highways Utrecht download
Regional bike map download
Electric public bike download
Recreational junction network download xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bicycle highways download
National and local authorities invest 81 million euros
in the construction  f 16 bicycle highways.To offer a serious alternative for car commuters
to use pedelecs with fast infrastructure
is the entral idea of the project.
 
 Training pedelec riders download
Regional bodies for Road safety
have the impression that many
accidents occur with pedelec users.
Therefore trainings are organized to take away fear from mostly mostly elderly people
to participate in traffic.

 Pedelec lease download
Pedelecs are relatively expensive
compared to conventional
bicycles. A leasesytem is than a good
option to overcome this constraint.
 Pedelec promotion as part of mobility
managemendownload
 
The combination of pedelec promotion
and mobility management measures
can be very effective. This case from
Eindhoven city region show pedelec as an 
effcient tool in mobility management.

 

 

GoPedelec Roadshow in Utrecht

From 26 till 27 of September 2011 the GoPedelec!  Roadshow was present in the office park of Rijnsweerd in Utrecht. With about 4800 employees and about 2500 parking places there is a structural lack of parking space near the offices. By means of changing towards the e-bike, public transport and other mobility management measures,  a drastic reduction on the usage of parking places should be realized. It is therefore that the municipality of Utrecht as partner of the GoPedelec!  project invited the test track to have employees from all the office building test  pedelecs.

The test track was located on the venue of ASR insurances, a company with about 2300 employees. ASR realizes that with only 1000 parking spaces near their offices and a limited capacity in public transport from the city center of Utrecht, that bicycles and especially electric bicycles might be part of the solution for their mobility problem. The insurance company not only hosted for two days the event but also showed the already existing infrastructure for parking and charging for e bikes and conventional bikes. Another part of their actual transport policies to reduce car parking is to forbid for all employees living in a range of 10 km to park their cars on the property of the company. This also has a positive effect on use of bikes and electric bikes. As a result of this limiting parking measure car transport has reduced by 7 %, PT has increased by 5% while transport to the office by bike increased by 3 %. (source Pijl and Vermeulen 2011).

On 28 of September the test track was located on the parking lot of one of the municipalities office centers.  (about 1200 employees) By means of an efficient communication plan even employees from other locations at a distance of about 3 km came to the test track to try the electric assisted bicycles.  A total of about 100 test riders participated during the event which took place from 11.00 am and 3 pm.

Bicycle parking in Utrecht

With about 100.000 visitors on bicycle,  the share of cycling in the center of Utrecht is about 60%. Due to this high figure enormous  bicycle parking problems exist in the city center. Looking for solutions the municipality of Utrecht has organized a competition to collect proposals for solutions to optimize the existing parking facilities. About 200 proposals were received  and summarized in a book of inspiration which is available for download here.

A video by bicycle instead of by car in the center of Utrecht you  see here: bicycle rush hour Utrecht

Text :Ton Daggers based on report R. Ditewig and text Angela Budde ExtraEnergy

Photos: GoPedelec.nl, IBC

 

Go Pedelec! test track on the Venceslau Square in Prague

Within the frame of the 10th European Mobility Week the Prague City Hall in cooperation with the Association of the New Prague Town and the Go Pedelec! consortium decided to organize the campaign "Wenceslas Square car-free". Thanks to this special event on Sunday, September 18, 2011, the whole square will only be accesible for pedestrians and bikers. From 10 am to 4 pm the square will be car-free as usually it is stuck by vehicles – passing through or parking along.

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120 million e-bikes on the streets of China

Compared with Europe the number of e-bikes on the streets of China is immense. The reason for this is twofold. Firstly, a car is (still) just too expensive for the Chinese people. Secondly, China tries to keep the air in its megacities as clean as possible. For this reason the number of e-bikes in China expoded years before the people in Europe even dreamed about these electric vehicles. However, the e-bikes in China are different to those now sold in Europe. They look like a mixture of scooters and bicycles, are usually heavier than pedelecs and contain a lead battery not a lithium battery. Furthermore, the electricity for the batteries come from dirty coal power plants.

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The future of lithium resources and battery recycling

The most common resource for producing batteries for pedelecs is nowadays lithium. Although lithium can be found all around the world in rocks, salt lakes and sea water its extraction is only technically and economically possible in South America, Australia and China. Lithium is mined today primarily in the form of minerals or brines in mines or salt lakes. In Bolivia, China, Chile as well as Argentina the lithium reserves are located in high-altitude salt lakes – so far nearly untouched eco-systems whose reaction to commercial exploitation is not yet investigated.

Lithium is mainly used in the glass and ceramics industry (37 %), battery production (20 %) and in the production of lubricants (11 %). However, battery production will represent the main consumer in future. Lithium will be used in electric and hybride vehicles. The growth in the lithium demand in the transport sector until 2013 will be between 44 % and 69 % per year.

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