Simple planning of bicycle streets with TENADO TRAFFIC

Bicycle streets play a vital role in modern life. Urban planners are forgoing traditional street designs in favor of expanding and converting bicycle paths. This can have a far-reaching impact on key parts of urban planning, including environmental protection, traffic planning, and more.

TENADO TRAFFIC is a professional traffic-planning software solution that helps urban planners expand bicycle zones with computer-aided design (CAD). Bike paths can make urban planning more practical, but they also bring other aesthetic and quality-of-life benefits. Consider how an advanced software solution like TENADO can help plan and design better streets.

What exactly are bicycle streets?

Bicycle streets are special traffic routes reserved for bicycle traffic. Despite a lack of motor vehicles, these streets must still adhere to Road Traffic Regulations, specifically traffic signs VZ 244.1 and VZ 244.2.

The planning and design of bicycle streets must follow these rules, which can be difficult to navigate for many urban planners.

Why have bicycle streets become more popular?

Sustainable energy, environmental protection, work-life balance—these concepts are more than buzzwords. They are corporate, social, and political priorities. Bicycle streets intersect them all by promoting an environmentally friendly alternative to motorized traffic. They contribute to CO2 reduction, help cities and counties achieve climate protection goals, and promote healthy habits to residents.

As a part of modern urban planning strategies, bicycle streets accomplish several important goals beyond these broad benefits. They can improve quality of life and even home value by reducing traffic noise, redesign public spaces around safer modes of travel, and promote local businesses, such as e-bike services and street-level stores. Salt Lake City’s Broadway, for example, replaced traditional street parking with protected bike lines and saw higher retail sales. Other areas have noted fewer accidents, higher home values, and more.

What are the challenges of designing bicycle streets?

Despite these benefits, a street is still a street, even when its main thoroughfare only has two wheels. Regardless of the type of vehicle they use, all road users must adhere to relevant traffic rules. The placement and design of traffic signage is the main tool urban planners can use to communicate these rules. Clearly visible traffic signs must indicate that cyclists have priority by regulating motorized traffic, showing turns and rights-of-way, and marking the speed limits. Thoughtful sign placement and design ensures the safety of bicycle streets through thoughtful traffic management. Urban planners should consider aspects such as the width, surface, and surrounding traffic when designing signs for a new bicycle street or zone.

These rules apply to bicycle streets and bicycle zones:

The entire road width is reserved for bicycle traffic.
Only bicycles and small electric vehicles are allowed in bicycle zones.
Motorcycles and cars are only allowed if the street is marked.
Maximum speed: 20mph
Cyclists are allowed to ride side by side.
Passing drivers must maintain a minimum distance of 1.5 meters when overtaking other road users.
Users to the right have the right of way before users on the left, unless otherwise marked, as they do on traditional roads.
Parking is allowed in designated areas.

The perfect partner for urban planners – TENADO TRAFFIC

The perfect partner for urban planners – TENADO TRAFFIC empowers urban planners with software specifically developed for creating traffic infrastructure plans. Using its tailored functions, users can implement their plans for bicycle street constructions or conversions with ease. The system’s comprehensive symbol libraries contain all relevant traffic signs, including VZ 244.1 and VZ 244.2. This makes the creation of plans according to RASt and ERA regulations easy and quick, including any specified dimensioning, design, and signage for bicycle traffic facilities. TENADO is professional, intuitive, and streamlined. Urban planners can execute their visions for new bicycle streets, paths, or zones without additional modules, drawing software, or legal research.

Symbols, traffic signs, regulations

Planning bicycle streets in Germany is a complex and demanding task. TENADO TRAFFIC helps traffic planners automate crucial planning, design, and compliance tasks for faster and more successful design workflows. TENADO provides extensive, up-to-date symbol libraries, compliance checks, design programs, and more to keep expert planners in the loop of their own designs. The software uses aerial photographs, imported maps, and toggleable layers to speed up the work process. At the push of a button, TENADO can find all the symbols needed for the current project, including replacing old sign numbers with new ones, saving time, effort, and legal repercussions for urban planners.

Contact our team today to learn how TENADO TRAFFIC can future-proof bicycle street planning and design. We offer live presentations, software demos, and customized offers to help modern urban planning with the latest software solutions.

Simple planning of bicycle streets with TENADO TRAFFIC

What exactly are bicycle streets?

Why have bicycle streets become more popular?

What are the challenges of designing bicycle streets?

These rules apply to bicycle streets and bicycle zones:

The perfect partner for urban planners – TENADO TRAFFIC

Symbols, traffic signs, regulations

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