Interface for Cycling Expertise

The transfer of knowledge and experience on cycling-inclusive policy development and planning is one of the reasons for existence for I-CE. Providing training courses is one of the methods to accommodate this transfer of knowledge. I-CE can provide effective training courses and master classes, or contribute to training courses organised by others. 

Lecture on Road Safety for the course “Traffic Safety in Asian & Latin American Countries: Principles and Approaches”
Hasselt (Belgium), 20 October 2009

I-CE had been requested to provide one half-day block in the two-week road safety course for Asian and Latin-American countries organised by IMOB (Transportation Research Institute / Instituut voor Mobiliteit) at the University of Hasselt in Belgium. For I-CE, Jeroen Buis taught on Tuesday-afternoon the 20th of October. His presentation was called: “Planning and Designing for Road Safety, with special attention to Walking and Cycling and to Urban Areas.”

Non-motorised Transport Course

Cape Town (South Africa), 30 August - 2 September 2009

The University of Cape Town, together with its many other partners; National Government, NGO’s and Consultants and including I-CE, organised the NMT training course. This 3-day training course with over 30 participants consisted of engineers, urban planners, provincial and municipal officials  currently involved in the NMT planning for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) teams and Consulting Engineers appointed for the City Wide NMT projects. 

Bangalore Workshop
Bangalore (India), 31 January 2009
The Bangalore Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA), in association with EMBARQ, I-CE, City Connect and Ride A Cycle Foundation, organized on the 31th of January the “Bangalore Cycling Initiative Workshop.” Bangalore is one of many Indian cities that started to explore the value of cycling policies.

ANPET congress, Fortaleza (Brasil), 4-6 November 2008 
Through contact with João Alencar I-CE was invited to give a three day workshop about bicycle infrastructure planning during the national academic transport engineering congress - ANPET. 

Train the Trainers training course
Delhi (India), April 2008
The German development agency GTZ is one of the partners in SUMA. Its main contribution to the SUMA program is the organisation of a Train the Trainer course on sustainable urban transport. GTZ and I-CE agreed to co-operate for the non motorised transport module of this training course, and I CE provided two trainers for a 6 days training program.

NMT-training seminar
Sydney, 20 - 21 Oktober 2008
GTZ organised, prior to the 9th world congress of the Metropolis network, a 2-day training course for around 50 participants from all over the world. The major of the City of Sydney, Clover Moore, opened the course. Jeroen Buis, I-CE consultant, was the main trainer of the course. The themes of the course were "Cycling inclusive traffic and transport planning" and "Public Bicycle Systems".

World Bank Training
Brasil, 31 July 2006 - 3 August 2006
The World Bank initiated a 4-day training course with the objective to develop the capacity of participants from Brazilian cities to plan and design bicycle paths and on-road facilities that form a network for non-motorized transportation, integrated with public transport systems. The training course from 31 July 2006 - 3 August 2006 in Guarulhos, Brazil, succeeded the Clean Air Initiative’s biannual conference, held from 25-27 July 2006 in Sao Paulo.

Master Class Cycle Planning Summer School
Breda, 5-8 June 2005
NHTV, I-CE and EUROconnect have jointly organised a 4-days Master Class on Cycle Planning at the NHTV International Professional Academy (Breda, the Netherlands). Topics of the course were: Cycling as improver of urban quality, Cycling Masterplanning, Cycle Use, Cycle Planning, Benefits of cycling, and Cycle Parking.

Velo Mondial Interactive Training program
Utrecht, June 2000
Linked to the Velo Mondial conference 2000 in Amsterdam, organized by the Dutch Cyclists' Union Fietsersbond with support by the Dutch national government, I-CE organized an interactive training workshop. Participants came from all continents.