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Camera exposes the axes of the "smart mobility" to promote the use of bicycles (13/06/2014)

Resulting primarily from the opportunities offered by the use of new technologies to promote cycling in cities.

The Mayor has participated this morning in the conference on "European policies in urban mobility: towards a smart and safe city", organized by the DGT.

The National Board of the Bicycle has tabled amendments to Rules of the road to increase the protection of pedestrians and cyclist and improvement of sustainable mobility.

The bicycle, as essential to promote sustainable mobility in cities element, has been the focus of the intervention this morning by the Mayor, Miguel Angel House, at the conference on "European policies in urban mobility: towards a smart and safe city "organized by the General Directorate of Traffic and develop yesterday and today in Madrid.

Camera participation, both in his capacity as Mayor of Murcia as president of the Spanish Network of Cities for Bicycle, has focused on the possibilities offered by the use of new communication technologies to implement "smart mobility ", which has much to do to promote the use of bicycles for everyday urban travel.

This is "the sustainable means of transport par excellence", said House, who has exhibited projects applying ICTs to cycling being developed in Murcia.

Amongst them:

- The network of enclosed bicycle parking tele-managed from the Municipal Office of the bike, allowing access to users who want to leave your bike in these areas and have been previously registered.

There currently are 9 closed bicycle parking and another 15 are under construction, which will soon be more than 300 places to park bicycles securely enough on public roads.

These closed bicycle parking use 3G or Wifi municipal real-time to enable the user access that bring personalized key code reader.

- Another technological innovation that will soon be operational in Murcia is a new model of smart locked bicycle parking that is capable of storing up to 24 bicycles and manage the collection and delivery of fully automatically.

The user identification is done through RFID card and only have to deposit the bike inside the cell.

- Another project is the implementation of imminent loan system of public bicycles Murcia, "MUyBICI".

Are planned over 40 stations and over 250 loan bike for the first year of operation, extending the idea of ​​going in as needed.

TICS will feature the latest technologies to ensure that their management is as efficient as possible and your users enjoy a fast, simple and reliable system.

Stations provide loan WIFI or 3G communication and from them may enlist in the system and get the card "MUyBICI".

In addition, system users can check real time via your SmartPhone how many there are free bicycles at each station or manage your user area.

- The "Green Line" service Murcia is a system that enables streamlined communication between citizen and City Council through a Smartphone using the JPA, or from the website of the service.

The service helps users to notify bicycle incidents in real-time public bicycle infrastructure via your mobile device, attaching a photo of the incident and who wants to share a text and send it through the APP.

The notification comes geolocated and the person or persons responsible for municipal officials to solve this incidence is distributed.

- The Mobisec project, funded by the European Union, will improve the safety of cyclists through the study and analysis of the routes run daily cycling.

To do such movements through the APP are monitored.

New consensus

For the first time, has been able to reach an agreement between the local government and the leading Spanish cyclist entities that, in the medium term would improve the pedestrian and cyclist protection on streets and highways.

Main municipalities represented in the Network of Cities for Bicycle and Cyclists major Spanish institutions, grouped in the National Bureau of the feint, have developed the same text for the legal regulation of the use of the bicycle, which have been presented as amendments to the new Rules of the road, which will be adopted in late summer.

The aspects that have influenced relate primarily to the protection of pedestrians and cyclist and the improvement of sustainable mobility.

- Principle of prohibition of bicycles on sidewalks, except for children under 12 years

- Principle of shared pedestrian and bicycle use in pedestrian areas understood as horseback

- Principle of Double cyclist address unique platforms driveway and sidewalk

- Principle of consideration of pedestrian red light as amber phase for cyclists

- Principle of prohibition of movement of bicycles per bus lane.

- Principle that all roads have a lane with top speed limited to 30 km / h.

These principles have a limit, the pedestrian priority wherever he is allowed to move, and as such principles, the possibility of specific exceptions, it is necessary to be explicit and justified.

The National Board of the Bicycle was created last year with the aim of lobbying to improve the conditions and facilities are enabled for biking is more comfortable, safer and more convenient.

It consists of the Network of Cities for the feint-chaired by the Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, which groups 100 cities and transport authorities in their cities that promote the presence of bicycles in the city;

the ConBici Coordinator, which includes 54 institutions bicycle users;

Business Platform Bike (PEB), which promotes bicycle business;

the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation, which represents together with the Association of Professional Cyclists (ACP) cyclist sports sector;

Manufacturers Association of Spain and Bikes (AMBE) that brings together and represents the 30 leading distributors and manufacturers of cycling sector;

Network and Ciclojuristas, large cast of lawyers committed to the bicycle.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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