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Environmental Sustainability and Cycling as a
Transport Mode: Best Practices

legal, environmental demographic status, bicycle parking space policies,
park-and-ride systems approach, bicycle repair-maintenance facilities, as well
as suggestions for raising awareness, communication and access to bicycles
(AMM, 2020). Figure 9 shows the cycling lanes designed in this context.

Figure 9. Cycling Network Plan Developed in the Scope of Bicycle Strategy, Masterplan and
Pilot Implementation Project for Integrated, Non-Motorized and Multi-Modal Transportation in
Ankara (AMM, 2020)

Discussion and Conclusion
Cycling has been one of the prominent modes in today’s transport sector
which provides significant contribution to ensuring environmental sustainability,
in particular. Taking into account that the today’s car-dependent urbanization
and transport planning constantly reiterates environmental, economic and
social problems within a cycle, we will highlight the most significant points
from the examples of best practices examined in the scope of the research in
order to understand how cycling culture will be created for Turkish cities and
how the cycling will be used as a transport means.
When the best practice examples examined within the scope of the study are
reviewed to understand what kind of steps have been taken to adopt bicycle
culture in these cities and to consider bicycle as a means of transportation,
Table 3 shows that some plans, policies, events, initiatives and partnerships
come to the fore in the development of cycling.

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