A Planning Practice Method to Assess the Potential for Cycling and to Design a Bicycle Network in a Starter Cycling City in Portugal

There is growing recognition of the potential for cycling to provide more sustainable and active urban mobility. In Portugal, National Strategy Active Mobility aims at increasing bicycle modal share from current level below 1% 10% by 2030. This paper describes a planning practice method assess design network in Ponte de Lima, small starter Portuguese city, which only has some disconnected cycle lanes. The consists assessing target population area attributes through Geographic Information System (GIS) Space Syntax operations. Results showed that Lima hindered hilly terrain, low density percentage young population. compact structure street integration enhances topological proximity makes using convenient. proposed comprises segregated lanes, colored lanes set streets where coexists with other road users. Adopting complementary measures, such as traffic calming bicycle-sharing services, could be decisive make appealing help city reaching ambitious goal Mobility.