Cycle parking provision policy contribution

Policy contribution

Objective	Comment
	Guarded parking	Parking combined med bicycle shops	Underground working place parking
	Low cost. Benefits for cyclists
	More organized parking can take cycle parking away from pedestrian areas where one finds conflicts between cyclists and walkers. Guarded parking places might steel space from pedestrian areas
	No impact on car kilometres
	Maybe if the cyclists using the facilities belongs to groups with small income, no alternatives etc.
	No impact on safety.
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	Might demand some public funding	Costs will be covered by the shop or by the cyclists	Costs will be covered by the employer

Gaps and Weaknesses

Few studies on the impacts of cycle parking facilities are found. The description of different facilities does not give information on impacts on modal split etc.

Appropriate contexts

Contribution to alleviation of key problems
Problem	Guarded parking	Parking combined med bicycle shops	Underground working place parking
Congestion-related delay
Congestion-related unreliability
Community severance
Visual intrusion
Lack of amenity
Global warming
Local air pollution
Noise
Reduction of green space
Damage to environmentally sensitive sites
Poor accessibility for those without a car and those with mobility impairments
Disproportionate disadvantaging of particular social or geographic groups
Number, severity and risk of accidents
Suppression of the potential for economic activity in the area

	= Weakest possible positive contribution,		= strongest possible positive contribution
	= Weakest possible negative contribution		= strongest possible negative contribution

= No contribution

Appropriate area-types
Area type	Suitability
City centre
Dense inner suburb
Medium density outer suburb
Less dense outer suburb
District centre
Corridor
Small town
Tourist town

= Least suitable area type

= Most suitable area type

Adverse side effects
Cycle parking may steel areas from pedestrians. Parking on pavements might induce conflict with pedestrians. More organized parking provisions might reduce such conflicts.