The 1st Moscow International Cycling Congress took place on April 21−23, 2016. It brought together more than 300 participants from 37 Russian cities and 15 countries of the world.
Regulation of cycling: safety issues and creating conditions for comfortable cycling with focus on cyclists; global trends in changes in traffic rules and the possibility of their implementations in Russia
Moderator: Vladimir Lugovenko, Deputy Director of the Department of State Policy in the Field of Automobile and Public Transport, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
Speakers: Ruud Ditewig (Utrecht, Netherlands) * pdf James Mead (London, UK) James Thoem (Copenhagen, Denmark) * pdf Igor Shapovalov (Veliky Novgorod, Russia)
City priorities. Comprehensive development programs for bicycle infrastructure. The possibility of rapid changes in the urban environment and the difficulties that arise in the way of these changes
Moderator: Yuliy Kunin, Head of the Research Department "Environmental Safety and Sustainable Development of Transport", OJSC "NIIAT"
Speakers: Paula Bisiau (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * pdf Henriette Vamberg (Copenhagen, Denmark) * pdf Alina Bisembaeva (Moscow, Russia) * pdf
Possible scenarios for the development of bicycle culture: activists' initiative and/or state program
Moderator: Daria Fedotova, Managing Partner of the Organization of Urban Communications "Public Spaces", co-founder of the Urban Platform "Do-It-Yourself"
Speakers: Airat Khayrullin (Almetyevsk, Russia) * pdf James Mead (London, UK) * pdf Amelia Neptune (Washington, USA) * pdf Denis Bystrov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) * pdf
⏰ THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 14:30
Designing a bicycle infrastructure in an outdated regulatory framework and the prospects for its updating
Moderator: Evgeniy Litvin, Member of the Presidium of the Interregional Public Organization "Coordinating Council for the Organization of Road Traffic"
Speakers: Yuriy Trofimenko, Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI) Olga Maltseva, Department of Transport and Development of Road-Transport Infrastructure of Moscow * pdf Albert Khalyapov, First Deputy Director of Municipal Unitary Enterprise "City Administration of Roads", Almetyevsk * pdf Elena Borovik, Head of the Department of Scientific Support for the Development of the Transport Complex of the City, Scientific Production Association of Transport and Roads of State Unitary Enterprise "Research and Design Institute for Urban Development of the City of Moscow * pdf Dmitriy Nemchinov, Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of the city of Moscow * pdf
Types and role of bicycle apps for mobile phones, the feasibility of using data from sport trackers in the construction of bicycle infrastructure
Moderator: Vladimir Kumov, Leader of the Russian urban cycling advocacy project Let’s bike it!, advisor of the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation
Speakers: James Mead (London, UK) * pdf Jennifer Dill (Portland, USA) * pdf
Economics: the promotion of cycling as a tool in the development of business and cities; the economic aspects of the formation of a bicycle culture in cities
Moderator: Paula Bisiau (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Speakers: Jennifer Dill (Portland, USA) * pdf Ruud Ditewig (Utrecht, Netherlands) * pdf Holger Haubold (Brussels, Belgium) * pdf
⏰ FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 10:00
Bike to study: the contribution of educational institutions to the formation of bicycle culture and training in the responsible road behavior
Moderator: Anastasiya Evseeva, Department of Transport and Development of Road-Transport Infrastructure of Moscow
Speakers: Amelia Neptune (Washington, USA) * pdf James Thoem (Copenhagen, Denmark) * pdf Jonas Eberlein (Germany) * pdf
Bike to work: advantages of business participation in the process of creating bicycle infrastructure and the formation of new transport habits of citizens
Moderator: Vadim Kovalyov, First Deputy Executive Director of the "Association of Managers", member of the Public Chamber of Moscow
Speakers: Holger Haubold (Brussels, Belgium) * pdf Amelia Neptune (Washington, USA) * pdf Vladimir Kumov (Moscow, Russia) * pdf Inga Trofimova (Deloitte, Moscow, Russia) * pdf Irina Ronzhina (Zelenograd innovation cluster, Russia) * pdf Yuliya Loginova (CROC, Moscow, Russia)* pdf
Kazan: pilot city of the Development Program by UN / Global Environment Facility — Ministry of Transport of Russia project "Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from road transport in Russian cities"
Speakers: Ildus Yanyshev, President of the Union of Cyclists of the Republic of Tatarstan * pdf Mikhail Zotov, Director of the Tourism Promotion Committee of Kazan * pdf Timur Kadyrov, Deputy Chief Architect of Kazan * pdf James Thoem (Copenhagen, Denmark) * pdf
Session partner: Union of Cyclists of the Republic of Tatarstan
Master class for the media. The death of the iron horse: how to write about cycling as if you had lived your whole life in Copenhagen
⏰ FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 14:30
Benefits for the city from the implementation of events in the format of "open streets" (free from motorized transport)
Speakers: Oscar Ruiz Brochero (Bogota, Colombia) * pdf Holger Haubold (Brussels, Belgium) * pdf Olga Mnishko, Coordinator of the Project "Velosipedization of St. Petersburg" * pdf Aleksandr Kazakov, Director of "VK Regionconsult", St. Petersburg * pdf