Amsterdam is the only city in the world with more bicycles than inhabitants. That poses a question: how to provide parking for all of these bikes?

A new handbook from the City of Amsterdam reveals the city’s approach to bicycle parking, with a particular focus on busy inner-city areas. In such locations, there may simply be not enough public space to facilitate parking.

To address this, the city is seeking to building large indoor parking facilities with 2,000 to 7,000 spaces at train stations and near large entertainment venues. Through a combination of this new infrastructure, on-the-spot communication, and a variety of other communication measures, Amsterdam hopes encourage to proper bicycle parking throughout the city and free up space in the inner city.

Read the handbook here to discover more about these measures (and how to replicate them locally!), which are set out as part of a seven-step approach for all cities to follow.

The resource was produced as part of Amsterdam’s work within CIVITAS Handshake. Amsterdam is acting as one of three “Cycling Capitals” within the project, and is transferring its knowledge as a world-leading cycling city to ten “Future Cycling Capitals”.

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