How to ‘do’ a bike plan: Collating best practices to synthesise a Maturity Model of planning for cycling

Cities globally are seeking to increase participation in cycling. Despite a boom in active transport research, and a growing corpus of technical literature for cycle facility design, planning practitioners aiming to normalise cycling for ordinary urban transportation often face institutional and structural barriers to progress. Historical marginalisation of cycling in many cities has created significant challenges for those seeking to realise increases in cycling by different users and for different transportation purposes.