Denmark is planning to create a recreational cycling network, the knudepunktsnetværk, drawing inspiration from cycling-friendly countries like the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The network will prioritize the five CROW principles of attractiveness, directness, coherence, safety, and comfort to ensure a user-friendly experience, and it will also explore using Csikszentmihaly’s Flow Theory to develop a metric for cycling happiness and enhance route selection. Moybcon, NIRAS A/S, and Folkersma has been collaborating on creating a manual for the national roll-out of the network.
Denmark is planning to create a knudepunktsnetværk, a nodal recreational cycling network, in the coming years, connected by cycling-friendly routes within the existing infrastructure. The network will be realised by incorporating inspiration from similar cycle hub networks in other cycling- friendly countries, such as the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. Moybcon, together with NIRAS A/S and Folkersma, have been consulted to assist in the formation of this knudepunktsnetværk, through the creation of a manual for a national roll-out.
All cycle routes will be based on the five CROW principles: attractiveness, directness, coherence, safety, and comfort. These five principles ensure that the cycling network is designed with the end user, the cyclists, in mind. Understanding that this network will be for recreational purposes, comfort, safety, and attractiveness will be guiding priorities when identifying routes included in the knudepunktsnetværk of Denmark. Furthermore, Csikszentmihaly’s Flow Theory will be evaluated to see if it can be utilized to develop a metric for cycling happiness, to be employed to further enhance route selection.