Project Description

The Veloland Schweiz National Cycling Route system was introduced in May 1998 to encourage and promote cycling in Switzerland. The system consists of nine routes covering all the major cycling areas. Following the introduction of these routes, Veloland Schweiz, a part of the Swiss Tourism Federation, wanted to undertake user surveys to ascertain the level of usage of these routes by various types of cyclists. They also wanted to get demographic and geographic descriptions of the users and an indication of the amount of money spent on bicycle-related activities while using these routes. An intercept survey of cyclists was designed by The Urban Transport Institute, and undertaken for the first time in September 1998. Since then repeat surveys have been undertaken in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, with The Urban Transport Institute continuing to undertake the analysis of data obtained from these surveys

Publications

Richardson, A.J. (1999). "A Survey Method for Cycle Networks - a Swiss Example". Forum Papers, 23rd Australasian Transport Research Forum, Perth, Volume 1, pp. 443-457. (pdf, 56k)

Richardson, A.J., Utiger, M. and Tschopp, J. (2000). "Intercept Surveys of Cycle Usage". VeloMondial 2000, Amsterdam, June. (pdf, 44k)

Ütiger, M. and Richardson, A.J. (2000). Veloland Schweiz: Resultate der Zählungen und Befragungen 1999. Stiftung "Veloland Schweiz", Bern. (pdf, 288k)

Richardson, A.J. (2003). The Survey of the Veloland National Cycling Routes: a Comparison of results from 1999 through 2002. A report to Veloland Schweiz, Bern, Switzerland (pdf, 3.2mb)