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Abstract： |
Cycling is acknowledged as a sustainable, green, and healthy means for travelling around the world. However, due to fast motorization, the share of cycling in urban transport in China declines dramatically. As a country with the highest share of bicycle use among various transport modes in developed counties, the Netherlands had an experience that the use of bicycle declined first and increased after the implementations of relevant policies. It therefore has practical reasonsto investigate the history of bicycle use and the related policies and urban designs for encouraging cycling in transport in urban China. Based on summarizing the existing literature, three distinct phrases of bicycle usage are observed: the stage of unintended use, the stage of compressed by motorization and the stage of guided by planning. In the second section, the roles of the central government and local governments in encouraging the use of bicycle as well as the related policies are investigated. It is found that both the central government and local governments contribute substantially to the regain of the bicycle use. The explicit cases which are designed for stimulating cycling according to the related policies are carefully examined in different cities in the Netherlands in the third section. The paper then concludes with some useful insights for the development of the bicycle use in urban China. |
