Parallel session 2.1
Cycle route projects: highlighting local assets
📆 Tuesday 24 September
🕑 14:00-15:30
📍 Parallel room 1
🎤 Fast Pedal Talk
From planning to development, it is crucial to build cycle route projects that are tailored to the destination’s uniqueness. While taking inspiration from best practices across the network is very useful, local specificities should be accounted for and highlighted, creating a unique product that can also be marketed as such. This session will introduce examples of cycle route projects that stand out for placing emphasis on local development.
Ida Nygaard 🇩🇰
Project Manager
The Cycle Superhighway Collaboration in the Capital Region of Denmark
Ida is a project manager in the Office for Cycle Superhighways. Ida coordinates the process of collecting data through route assessments and has broad insight in the key numbers of Cycle Superhighways. She also leads development projects with topics such as attractive and green routes and the good cycling experience.
Anna Tailliez 🇳🇱
Cycling Urbanism Advisor
Mobycon
Anna Tailliez is an enthusiast "all-weather" cyclist from France. She is currently living in the Netherlands where she is part of the international team at Mobycon. Leveraging her intercultural expertise and technical and creative skills, Anna focuses primarily on (recreational) cycle network planning and infrastructure design. In 2022, she embarked on a five-month cycling trip across Europe to explore the diverse ways cycling culture is promoted abroad and to experience the joys of slow travel.
Julie Buschardt 🇩🇰
Senior Consultant
NIRAS
Meet Julie, an urban planning expert with 15 years of experience. Passionate about user centric approaches, she specializes in sustainable mobility strategies, urban master planning, and inclusive transportation solutions. Julie's expertise extends to recreational cycling and tourism strategies. Julie works for NIRAS in Denmark, as a senior consultant.
Charlotte Massagé 🇧🇪
Cycling Tourism Project Coordinator
Pro Velo
I've been a daily cyclist, recreational cyclist and travellers. This keen interest in cycling tourism has enabled me to acquire a knowledge of the subject over the years and to work professionally on the development of EuroVelo routes in order to raise Belgium as a cycling major tourism destination.
Philipp Cerny 🇩🇰
Samsø Energy Academy
Philipp Cerny is a transport policy enthusiast with a broad interdisciplinary professional and educational background. He owns "Cerny Consulting" and in this role co-edited the "European Mobility Atlas" and served as external expert at the EU's Committee of the Regions. Since 09/2023 he is working at Samsø Energy Academy.
Feridun Ekmekci 🇹🇷
Bicycle strategist and cycling tourism expert
ENVERÇEVKO & Muğla Sitki Kocman University
Feridun EKMEKCİ carries out bicycle transportation and bicycle tourism projects. He made a partnership as an external expert with İzmir Metropolitan Municipality in the EuroVelo 8 participation process. Now, He is working with Mersin Metropolitan Municipality, and prepares action plans and roadmaps on green transformation and bicycle strategies with its climate crisis directorate. He is the National EuroVelo Coordinator and the president of ENVERÇEVKO association in Mugla.
Marco Berends 🇩🇰
Project Manager
Danish Cycling Tourism
Marco Berends is Project Manager at Danish Cycling Tourism. He is specialised in wayfinding and recreational cycling networks. He is responsible for the design and development of the Danish cycle node network ‘cykelnet’. Furthermore, he is on the Board of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark and passionate about mapmaking.