Parallel session 2.3
What is a quality cycle route anyway? Jostling through a diversity of criteria
📆 Tuesday 24 September
🕑 14:00-15:30
📍 Parallel room 2
🎤 Lecture
All across Europe, there is a variety of criteria and understanding of what a quality cycle route is. This is due to the diversity in the local development of cycling, geography, types of infrastructure and transport regulations. In this session, we will discuss criteria and certifications from across Europe, in the context of the EuroVelo network. Will we ever get an established, transnational definition/certification of a quality cycle route?
Michael Maier 🇩🇪
Tourism Officer
ADFC
Since 2020, Michael Maier works for the German Cyclists’ Association (ADFC). In his position as Bicycle Tourism Officer, he is among other responsible for ADFC's touristic quality certificates: ADFC Quality Routes and ADFC Bicycle Travel Regions.
Anna Lindén 🇸🇪
Project Manager, Cycling Tourism
Swedish Cycling Federation
Anna Linden, project manager of cycling tourism at the Swedish Cycling Federation, is a dedicated long distance, cross-border cyclist with an 18-year professional background in change management on the local and nationel level within the field of sustainable transportation.
Jesper Pørksen 🇩🇰
Director
Danish Cycling Tourism
Jesper Pørksen is a historian and journalist by education. He started his cycling tourism career back in 2006 as a bicycle guide for a German tour operator. Before becoming director at Danish Cycling Tourism in 2015, he worked for the Danish Cyclists’ Federation and for a regional tourism development agency.
Wanda Nowotarska 🇵🇱
Regional Cycling Officer
Marshal’s Office of the Westpomeranian Region
Wanda Nowotarska has been coordinating a project to build a network of 1,100 km of long-distance cycle routes in Western Pomerania. As an experienced cyclist and bicycle tourist, she knows the problems and challenges associated with the construction of a bicycle-friendly infrastructure. Her goal is to make cycling accessible to the widest possible group of people. She is involved in the development of cycling at the national level and has been a Secretary of the Bicycle Mobility Team as part of the Marshal's Convention since 2018. She is a certified EuroVelo Route Inspector.
Alexandra Fournier
EuroVelo and Projects Coordinator
European Cyclists' Federation
Alexandra joined ECF within the EuroVelo team in May 2022 after graduating from a Master’s in Environmental Sciences and Management. Alexandra coordinates Interreg projects as Baltic Biking Upgrade (EuroVelo 10) and ICTr (EuroVelo 13). She also works on the European Certification Standard and GIS topics, and supports the development of business opportunities.