to change the world! (The bicycle as urban transport in the future) How to address the traffic problems in cities and urban areas actually effective, and possibly even solve? This question is not only researchers and city planners, but every now and then just ordinary people like you, or me and so I'm constantly on my mind, which then beat down in such blog articles like this one.
have in cities and urban areas, we as the main problem, especially that of the limited space. Houses shops, some companies and industrial manufacturing plants, crowd in a small room together and share the little space even with bike and walkways, streets, squares, parks and parking places (in my opinion, a special Are a waste), and more or less extensive rail networks in the public transportation and long-distance passenger and freight traffic. be
of bike and walking paths at least used permanently by people driving to cycling or running, while raging on the streets around the clock next to car travel and also of the many logistical tasks of a city have to deal with (supply and waste disposal for example), squares and parks for relaxation and improvement of the microclimate, serve a large proportion of the available urban space by parked cars will be used and thus not fully provided. They are simply sit around and just away that could be used usefully.
But that's not enough. Weekdays also held a regular migration of people who either live outside the city "in the country" (and thus contribute to urban sprawl) and work in the city, or vice versa. Even if that many people took advantage of reasonable public transport, use the public transport infrastructure, with its ample space in the city. In any case, if they run above ground.
you shift it into the earth, you have plenty of money in your hand (a particularly "beautiful" ... uh ... glaring example of , Stuttgart 21 - Stuttgart : clear rejection of Stuttgart 21 , SDR.de article on the 09/08/2010) and one can with certainty assume that the obtained on the surface space is not used for raising the quality of life in cities, well but the wishes of the car lobby will be sacrificed! By the middle years of construction sites in the city never mind.
Will the public transport above ground, so take the route through the networks to ever increasing running gas tstrom such proportions that, for other road users hardly any space left over! The increasingly close clocked vehicles on lines (always too small anyway and therefore always overcrowded) let other road users to cross little chance of the tracks. The accident risk rises rapidly. Are there still technical problems such as with each year's new complete surprise occurring winter roads and traffic conditions, often the whole system gets out of rhythm and threatens to collapse!
What then? Individual? Will everyone! But in the use of cars, you carry a rule about 1 ton of best steel and 4-5 seats together with enormous storage space with him, although one usually sits alone in the vehicle. What a waste of precious and expensive fossil fuels? What a rape of the world's climate?
The place is becoming increasingly scarce, increasingly expensive fuel and public transport always full!
Will you now reduce the traffic in the city, so this can really only the private car may be useful. The environmentally friendly and gentle öffentlcihe transport can and are not to be limited!. On the contrary, he has developed considerably, with more going to the area and cheaper. In addition, must also be made to make public transport even an individual, for example by more and smaller vessels (certainly makes more sense than a few trains on a few very large ones). Of course this also requires high initial investment, especially in research and development (as was previously the trend only in ESTABLISHMENT "Bigger, Faster, More expensive!). In this area we are still largely at the beginning and only a few "crazy" Profs at a few universities are so far apart with such individual mass transit systems. Over the experimental stage is to my knowledge, but still not gone!
So we are looking for alternatives that are small, cheap, readily available, are to continue to comfortably and easily. In addition, they are naturally at low cost, be serviced and repaired!
These specifications can be an enlightened people almost immediately to one of the most ingenious inventions think in human history - the bicycle! ( 225th birthday Karl Drais - the man who invented the bicycle ;! Article online world of 04/29/2010)
bikes come in all sorts of variations, for all imaginable applications. It is inexpensive to manufacture, but also hand-made in fine manufacturers cost several thousand to tens of thousands €!
There recumbents, which are particularly suitable for higher speeds and long distances. For outdoor enthusiasts to provide mountain bikes for off-road use. City Bikes Cruiser and allow a relaxed cycling in the city.
cargobike
load wheels , the workhorses in the bikes (or new German Cargo or Work Bikes) meet the requirements large families with small children and should also small trader can satisfy.
more extreme for friends Designs can be found all kinds of choppers
Orange Tequila Sunrise by Jason Battersby
and built in small series wheels, which can tear a fan's eye, because unfortunately we have only a butt that can be put on a bike. Too bad, in the range of mobile stands.
In the last few years, the so-called Pedelecs , bicycles with auxiliary electric drive more and more into the focus of particular benefit rider, because, regardless of wind and the slopes of battery-powered electric motors allow for a very relaxed and comfortable Driving under the somewhat older term for us. But the days when the Pedelec looked and so drove like a wheelchair by the statutory health insurance funds are long gone! Also bike designers are able to learn how to look like.
Though you can do so much here, but you're on the right track. The development of the bicycle as an important, if not the most important individual urban transportation in the future is far from over. She has just begun.
The development of powerful batteries also progressing apace and, depending on weather, topography of the terrain, temperature and wind conditions, are between 30 and up to 100 km operation range is no longer a pipedream. Of course, also plays a role in how much you spend on your bike is ready and able.
The possibilities than transport by bicycle and derived from this basic design derivatives almost unlimited. are one-, two-, three-and four-wheeled vehicles with elektrounterstütztem muscle driving it today in all variations. One end of the development is not in sight. A little more courage, the designer and the manufacturer and a "bit" more support for this environmentally friendly way of individual locomotion by politicians, would be very helpful.
Three-wheeler design study by Matias Conti
We can not always see the car as the main means of transport, it is the subject of paving the way legendary. The car is big, loud, expensive and consumes too much precious space and energy! Local authorities need to continue the cycle routes massive and give the cyclists the opportunity to reach any place in a city in a timely and proper roads specifically for users of electro-assisted muscle cars. Then a lot more people than currently use these environmentally friendly alternatives to get around. And between major cities must radtaugliche roads To give quasi Radautobahnen So is running a comfortable driving long distances to ensure that rest areas, signs and alarm devices.
As you can see, the solution of traffic problems in cities and urban areas is not at all actually that difficult. Assuming that one might not be fixed on the car as early institution of private vehicles and directed the entire infrastructure and traffic officers are after! The options are to change it already, but the political will is lacking ... until now! Only a few cities have so far adopted by the cyclists and take their needs seriously. Freiburg is a of them (though this setting is not shared by all cyclists in Freiburg).
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