Evaluation of the pedestrian and cycling pilot city Burgdorf
Dec. 18, 2006
Under the title «Pedestrian and cycling pilot city Burgdorf» the city of Burgdorf was running a pilot project between 1995 and 2006. Its aim was to promote pedestrian and cycling traffic with the help of innovative projects and offers. Centrepiece was the establishment of an «encounter zone» (20 kmh-speed limit zone) as basis for the implemented relevant Federal law. The whole evaluation commissioned by the city of Burgdorf and the Federal Office of Energy, investigated the effects of the pilot project, its success and failure factors as well as its transferability to other Swiss municipalities. In due consideration of previous partial analyses an own population survey, a municipality survey as well as numerous interviews were carried out. The pilot project reached its formal targets. That is to say that the possibilities and limits of non-motorised transport could be illustrated comprehensively. The project gained a lot of interest at home and abroad and found many emulators (multiplier effects). However, the informally set quantitative targets, namely a 10 percent shift from motorised to non-motorised transport, could not be reached. More extensive measures would be needed to reach that goal.
