Welcome to Our Resources

On these pages, the key outputs of the Handshake project will be posted alongside key resources about the cities and general good practices in cycling.

Public deliverables will be created over the course of the project until 2022 and will be posted as soon as they are available. Follow our twitter channel or sign up to our Newsletter to keep up to date with new materials.

Some example resources are showcased below.

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You can search the resources available by city, date or using free text. Handshake-produced resources are marked:

Made in Handshake

Marking 50 years of mobility policy in Bruges - EN version

Made in Handshake Publication

This publication takes readers through 50 years of Bruges’ mobility planning history, whilst also covering cycling policy and the concept of ‘city-friendly mobility’. This version is written in English. A Dutch-language version is available to read here.

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Publication date: Fri 15 Jan 2021

Author: Bart Slabbinck

Language: English

Fifty Years of Mobility Policy in Bruges - NL version

Made in Handshake Publication

This publication takes readers through 50 years of Bruges’ mobility planning history, whilst also covering cycling policy and the concept of ‘city-friendly mobility’. This version is written in Dutch. An English-language version is available to read here.

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Publication date: Thu 14 Jan 2021

Author: Bart Slabbinck

Language: Dutch

Bruges - FR30 vision

Made in Handshake Publication

Bruges has developed a new vision for the future of its cycling network: the FR30. This summary sets out its most vital components.

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Publication date: Mon 30 Nov 2020

Author: Bart Slabbinck

Language: English

Bruges - FR30 vision (NL)

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Bruges has developed a new vision for the future of its cycling network: the FR30. This summary sets out its most vital components

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Publication date: Mon 30 Nov 2020

Author: Bart Slabbinck

Language: Dutch

The Cycle Highway Manual

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The Cycle Highway Manual is a product of the CHIPS project (Cycle Highways Innovation for smarter People transport and Spatial planning) financed by Interreg North-West Europe. It summarises 3 years of knowledge sharing and research between partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, UK and Denmark. It aims to be a help for professionals that deal with cycle highway planning, design, construction, selling, maintenance, monitoring or evaluation.

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A Guide to Inclusive Cycling

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This updated guide presents advice on removing barriers to disabled people’s access to cycling. The Guide sets out the principles of inclusive cycling and features real-life case studies, technical recommendations and policy suggestions. In addition to outlining principles of inclusive cycling and the types of cycles used by disabled cyclists, the Guide covers four main themes. It looks at: cycle infrastructure; cycling facilities; cycle networks; and, recognition and awareness of...

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Publication date: June 2019

Author: Wheels for Well-being

Language: English

Guidance for Cycling Projects in the EU

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In 2018, the European Commission (DG MOVE) commissioned a study to produce guidelines to help promote cycling in the EU through case studies and guidelines that will foster the implementation of cycling infrastructure (and other) measures that are appropriate to the local context of cities.   The guidance based on this study was published in June 2019. Each city has different fundamental characteristics that affect the appropriate level and type of action required to promote and support...

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Publication date: Tue 18 Jun 2019

Author: European Commission

Language: English

Mobility Transitions Roadmap

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The path dependence of existing infrastructure has ‘locked-in’ many industrial legacy cities into a car-based transport system rendering the transition to sustainable transport system particularly challenging. Identified as a priority area. This document contains thoughts, ideas and experiences on how to ‘green’ their urban mobility. The knowledge captured from the Urban Transition Alliance exchanges involving cities from across the world between November 2017 and March 2019 has been...

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Publication date: Mon 22 Apr 2019

Author: ICLEI

Plan Amsterdam - Giving Way to cyclists

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How cycling is still on the rise in Amsterdam, and will be for the foreseeable future. Contributions include stories about the lack of cycle parking space and how this is being resolved, and what the main mobility challenges for the next few years will be.

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Publication date: Thu 1 Feb 2018

Author: City of Amsterdam

Language: English

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This project has received funding from the European Union‘s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement no 769177.

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