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I-ce, Interface for Cycling Expertise
Trans 3
NL-3512 JJ Utrecht
cp: Roelof Wittink		 phone: +31-30-230 4521
fax: +31-30-231.23.84
email: i-ce@cycling.nl
web: www.i-ce.info
Country
Netherlands
 
Founded in
1996		 Region of activity
World wide, developing as well developed
 
Number of Members
Not applicable		 ECF Membership
Associated member since 1998
Organization
With the statement that ‘The Netherlands is not cycling paradise, but a cycling laboratory’, I-ce was founded in 1996 to be an interface between the international demand for cycling expertise and the cycling practice rooted in Dutch society. As an interface, I-ce provides assistance in two ways between demand and supply: by developing good practice and enabling access to source knowledge.
Short Summary
I-ce has become an expertise centre that supports capacity- building for the planning and design of cycling-inclusive facilities in an urban policy and development context. I-ce delivers expertise to governments, expert institutions and lobby groups. I- ce is supported by an extensive network of experts in the Netherlands and abroad. In providing assistance to developing countries, I-ce has created targeted programs for civil society organizations (LOCOMOTIVES) and cities (Bicycle Partnership Program). For the European and international market, I-ce provides:
  • technical assistance for policy formulation, planning, engineering and design
  • interactive training of cycling-inclusive capabilities
  • research into international cycling issues
  • cycling-related documentation and its dissemination.
Example activities

The Bicycle Partnership Program aims to support 30-50 cities in Africa, Latin America and Asia in achievement of their development goals on poverty reduction, environment and sustainability through cycling-inclusive city planning and transport management. To this end BPP will mobilize in Dutch society the required knowledge, personnel assistance and financial aid.

BPP is concluding agreements with cities with a cycling-inclusive ambition so as to give them access to international facilities for cycling-inclusive planning and design of infrastructure and facilities. Preconditions are a supportive development policy up to 2010, the involvement of cyclists and beneficiaries – multi stakeholder approach - and a commitment regarding the local share in the financing of the process.

For the provision of support from the Netherlands, I-ce is concluding arrangements for the:

  •     deployment of cycling experts from municipalities and consultancies
  •     internationalization of Dutch standards and manuals
  •     international university cooperation for cycling-inclusive research and education
  •     fundraising for low cost mobility organisations and cycling projects
  •    transfer of  bicycle parts and assembly technology.

 

 
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