With a high level of pollution problems and style of driving the Italians famous, Milan almost not known as the city of cycle-friendly city - for it is in the developed a new scheme which aims to change the habit of
Milan is very popular with the Vespas and driving style quite uncertain, Italy is not the area that is known for developing urban cycling culture. While the cities in northern Europe has been more advanced in innovative solutions to citizens on their motorcycle, in paese car bell remains the king.
Now the locomotive of the economy of Italy, fourthly Milan, attempting to bring Milan back in the olden bicicletta with pay everyone to bicycle to go to the office. The steps taken after the announcement in December from has received € 35m (£ 27m) government funding for sustainable mobility solutions, after Milan and other parts of the country was hit by a dangerous level of pollution.
In the next few weeks on a national and local government will start to compete for the state coffers, together with members of the Council of Milan to perform mobility, Pierfrancesco Maran was, hopes to become the first in the queues. While there is already movement in Milan to make the cycle-friendly city, as sharing scheme that has been successful bike, and he strongly believe that this can be successfully done.
"Change them to go to work with wear bike; similar project has also been done in France, "words Maran was. French conducting test this system in the year 2014, where each employee paid 25 cents per kilometer for those who use the bike go to work. This pilot on the same principles that are currently being initiated in Massarosa, a small Tuscan city where 50 people said take part. The introduction of the scheme share bike Milan is part of the effort to create the cycle-friendly city.
The Office has been advised to employees with Maran was to use the application for each tracking people who bicycle to work place: "Software is not; 100 percent perfect but think no that provides a large amount of money, "he said.
Maran was has requested assistance from the Polytechnic University of Milan to work outside the practical, with mobility manager that institution, Eleonora Perotto, gives advice about how good potential in preparing the scheme.
One of ideas including the system to monitor the speed of the journey a person to check whether they really biking to work - despite the heavy traffic Milan can make this challenge. "In the city, those who travel with a bicycle almost faster than the car," said Perotto. He strongly supports this scheme as one way to promote cycling in Milan,but he admitted that he did not wear a bicycle to work ,this in because the distance and difficulty of the route to the place he works.
His sentiment reflects the key defect in proposals for paying people to bicycle to work: that money alone is not enough incentives. The French scheme has moderate results, with only a few hundred people reported the signing of more than 8,000 who qualify, while this year will become clear how well the Italy in Massarosa took the idea.
Ralph Buehler, a professor in the field of urban and planning at Virginia Tech in the United States, believe pay scheme should be accompanied by other measures to create a bicycle is a realistic choice. He singled out the U.S. research foundabout 60 percent of the population is "interested but are concerned about the cycling". In 2015 and Milan to ban for a car for three days this to overcome the pollution and smoke.
"If you do not provide a secure cycling environment, you will only get a small group of people," said Buehler. "Only pay people alone will not have many effects, because you do not get to the part of the population that 'enthusiastic but concerned'."
availability of bike parking secure and bathroom that all areas that can affect the willingness of someone to bicycle to the office. Relatively easy driving also factors, although Buehler warned difficult to enforce action against the car before other options are in place.
"Experience shows that you can make it more difficult for people to me
Source : [ theguardian]
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Milan is very popular with the Vespas and driving style quite uncertain, Italy is not the area that is known for developing urban cycling culture. While the cities in northern Europe has been more advanced in innovative solutions to citizens on their motorcycle, in paese car bell remains the king.
Now the locomotive of the economy of Italy, fourthly Milan, attempting to bring Milan back in the olden bicicletta with pay everyone to bicycle to go to the office. The steps taken after the announcement in December from has received € 35m (£ 27m) government funding for sustainable mobility solutions, after Milan and other parts of the country was hit by a dangerous level of pollution.
In the next few weeks on a national and local government will start to compete for the state coffers, together with members of the Council of Milan to perform mobility, Pierfrancesco Maran was, hopes to become the first in the queues. While there is already movement in Milan to make the cycle-friendly city, as sharing scheme that has been successful bike, and he strongly believe that this can be successfully done.
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"Change them to go to work with wear bike; similar project has also been done in France, "words Maran was. French conducting test this system in the year 2014, where each employee paid 25 cents per kilometer for those who use the bike go to work. This pilot on the same principles that are currently being initiated in Massarosa, a small Tuscan city where 50 people said take part. The introduction of the scheme share bike Milan is part of the effort to create the cycle-friendly city.
The Office has been advised to employees with Maran was to use the application for each tracking people who bicycle to work place: "Software is not; 100 percent perfect but think no that provides a large amount of money, "he said.
Maran was has requested assistance from the Polytechnic University of Milan to work outside the practical, with mobility manager that institution, Eleonora Perotto, gives advice about how good potential in preparing the scheme.
One of ideas including the system to monitor the speed of the journey a person to check whether they really biking to work - despite the heavy traffic Milan can make this challenge. "In the city, those who travel with a bicycle almost faster than the car," said Perotto. He strongly supports this scheme as one way to promote cycling in Milan,but he admitted that he did not wear a bicycle to work ,this in because the distance and difficulty of the route to the place he works.
His sentiment reflects the key defect in proposals for paying people to bicycle to work: that money alone is not enough incentives. The French scheme has moderate results, with only a few hundred people reported the signing of more than 8,000 who qualify, while this year will become clear how well the Italy in Massarosa took the idea.
Ralph Buehler, a professor in the field of urban and planning at Virginia Tech in the United States, believe pay scheme should be accompanied by other measures to create a bicycle is a realistic choice. He singled out the U.S. research foundabout 60 percent of the population is "interested but are concerned about the cycling". In 2015 and Milan to ban for a car for three days this to overcome the pollution and smoke.
"If you do not provide a secure cycling environment, you will only get a small group of people," said Buehler. "Only pay people alone will not have many effects, because you do not get to the part of the population that 'enthusiastic but concerned'."
availability of bike parking secure and bathroom that all areas that can affect the willingness of someone to bicycle to the office. Relatively easy driving also factors, although Buehler warned difficult to enforce action against the car before other options are in place.
"Experience shows that you can make it more difficult for people to me
Source : [ theguardian]
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