Copenhagen part of the 2022 SCAN Design Professionals Learning Trip
Why are there so many bicycles in Copenhagen? – Nick Rides Bikes (wordpress.com) Check out this blog post by fellow student Nick Deshais. I think he captured some good insight into why it is so easy to choose to ride a bike in Denmark. In addition to all the policy Read more…
We went to an afternoon training with James Thoem, Copenhagenize. He helped explain how Copenhagen increased bicycling mode share, decreased VMT and congestion, and decreased the number of injury crashes in their town even as population and bike miles traveled increased as the town grew. Here is his article, and Read more…
The question we’ve been chasing this week is why does Copenhagen have the transportation system that they do? What we are learning is that they intentionally re-constructed and continue to build out their transportation system to help them meet their community values – these are some questions they asked themselves: Read more…
Interestingly, the city of Copenhagen has a department that is Mobility and Public Spaces. They want to maximize how many residents can live close to work and services so they can attract and retain a high quality workforce while also reducing VMT/increasing walk/bike/transit mode usage. So they knew they were Read more…
Building Height Early on, for their central district they recognized that – buildings should be 4 to 6 stories. Anything taller and they strongly believe that people lose their connection to the ground – their connection to plazas, parks and gathering space. Anything taller and they believe it leads to Read more…
Copenhagen bike and pedestrian facility sweeper. Any facility you own requires operations and on-going maintenance. In Copenhagen, their City works on the bicycling network and pedestrian network first – before the streets and portions of the network used by people driving. The rationale: They have such high mode usage, that Read more…