The subject of the study is dedicated to the inspecting of cycling infrastructure, which consists of buildings and equipment for bicyclers in cities with a high percentage of use of bicycles as a full-fledged transport in daily trips and the development of scientifically cogent recommendations for the establishment of bicycle infrastructure in Ukraine. In the dissertation the conditions of complex organization of bicycle structures in the bicycle infrastructure of large cities are revealed.
The relevance of the architectural-planning development of buildings for bicyclers in the bicycle infrastructure is determined by new socio-economic, ecological, city building conditions in the conditions of total expansion of large cities and and in by requirement of solving transport, functional, architectural and design problems for the formation of an optimal, comfortable urban environment. One of the possibilities of reducing the number of motor transport in certain parts of the city, is the establishment of cycling transport in certain areas as a complete unit of urban transport.
The ecological, social, city-building and economic problems of functioning of transport communications in cities and possibilities of their solving at the legislative, social, transport and urban levels are formulated. An overview of cities with a high degree of development of a bicycle network was conducted,cycling traffic in Europe,
the USA, China and Japan was investigated, based on EPOMM statistical data.
Determinated propotion of cycling trips depending on the length of the journey. Was made exploration of external and internal factors influence on state of bicycle network and infrastructure, was analyzed conditions of building location in bicycle-friendly cities: Amsterdam, Copenhagen, portland, San-Francisco, New York and early stages of the network formation in Kiev and Lviv. Given axamples of networks with original ideas and architectual desigions in different counties such as Japanese automated underground parkings, or «Radstation» in Germany. Based on invistigation of legal and normative documentation defined insufficient professional attention on development of cycling infrastucture.
Based on classification of cycling structures according to various criteria developed by author, proposed division into types "A-D", depending on mono- or multifunctioning organisation with secondary maintenance functions. The principles of ergonomically-design organization of bicycle facilities and equipment are revealed and illustrated.
Also, recommendations for the selection of optimal architectural and planning solutions for buildings and the rational organization of bicycle storage facilities in the form of urban public spaces, in recreational environments and special-purpose spaces are also developed. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the functional process, the possibility of changing the type of operating and function mode from the capacity and conditions of the inhabitants' activity depending on the season and seasonal load on the city objects are taken into account.
