EuroVelo Overview Route Database
European Cyclists’ Federation
Jesús Freire, Project Officer, [email protected]
13 March 2017
ECF gratefully acknowledges financial support from the European commission. Nevertheless the
sole responsibility of this publication lies with the author. The European Union is not responsible
for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Contents
1. Presentation of the EuroVelo Overview Route Database
2. How to insert data on the EuroVelo Overview Route Database
3. Further information
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1. Presentation of the EuroVelo Overview Route Database
 The functioning of the EuroVelo Overview Route Database is very simple.
There is only one page.
 The Overview Route Database uses Google Maps system. You can therefore scroll to see
the map at a smaller or bigger scale.
 You can access all the functions either on clicking directly on a section between two towns / cities
or on clicking on one of the EuroVelo
routes on the left and then on clicking on
the relevant section. The selected section
will become red.
 Information about the selected section
will be available at the bottom of the
webpage.
 The information provided are available
when clicking on the different tabs
(orange banner) and are available at the
bottom of the page for each selected
section.
 Information is not locked so that you can
add new and update information
concerning your own section.
 On the first tab, concerning general
information, you can chose
- Public: the information will
automatically
be
transferred
on
the
eurovelo.org
website:
http://www.eurovelo.org/routes/overview-route-database/
- Private: the information remain on the Overview Route Database webpage and will not
be transferred.
2. How to insert data on the overview route database
The overview route database is meant to provide a precise overview of cycling conditions on
each section of the EuroVelo routes. Most of data remain private and are available only for
organisations and individuals working on the EuroVelo network.
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2.1. Overview Route Database information form
Link to access to the overview route database in order to insert data: (please request this link
to ECF)
 The most important rules:
1. Please divide the EV routes into sections and let us know before adding any information
directly in the database, so that we can adjust the routes on the map to your
specifications. You do not have to make shorter sections than 80 km on flat areas, 40
km on hilly/mountainous areas, and 5 km in the cities but no more than a few hundred
km long. Obviously the more detailed the better.
2. Only provide information if you have it already or you can reach IT easily. We do not
expect that you undertake fieldwork or detailed investigations. We would like to
encourage you and/or the national authorities in your country to collect, store and
update (at least the basic) information about your countries network (if you do not
already). The EV Overview Route Database will not replace your national database
(systems) but it will provide a European overview about the EV Network.
3. In case of sections that at this stage are only ‘theoretical’ (i.e. not defined as yet) please
write in the ‘Comments (private)’ box that it is a “theoretical section”, and:
a. Please propose a low traffic public road (finding for example with a route planner
or on map), which could be the itinerary for the time being. In this case add the
value of the length of that route on low traffic public roads to the right cell under
the second tab.
b. If there is not a low traffic public road that could be used, please add to values
the length of a route on high traffic public roads on the most likely way. In this
case write to the comments box that it ‘Cannot be cycled’, we just use to calculate
the length where construction works are needed.
c. If you even do not know where the route will approximately go between the start
and end point, please keep every cell empty (perhaps you can fill only the main
attractions but this is not obligatory).
4. The only mandatory fields are marked with a star (*). The rest is up to you but we would
appreciate it very much if you could complete as much as possible. Please note that you
do not need to worry about the ‘Description (public)’ box at this stage. This information
can be provided at a later date.
5. Please only use one route (no alternatives). The only exceptions to this rule are where
the routes follow rivers, where both river banks can be part of the official route. Please
use separate sections for each bank though.
6. Please use the comments boxes on each tab if you need to explain any of your answers.
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 Step 1 - Geographic information:*
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Country: (NUTSI)*
Region / state: (NUTSII)*
Start: (village or town – it must correspond with the name given on Google Maps)*
Stop: (as above, it must link with Google Maps)*
Length (km): (as accurate as possible)*
 Step 2 - Routes – Infrastructure
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Attractions:*
o Name - With special attention on to those sites which are related to the route
theme. To include National Parks, Nature conservation areas, cultural and
historical places, monuments, events etc. You do not have to list everything, just
the main highlights, which could be a flagship / real push for the section.
Route infrastructure* (existing):
o Bicycle path/road, bicycle lane: How many km is separated bike path or a special
road - only for cyclists (except maintenance vehicles) - or a closed bike lane? Just
write the approximate km)
o Asphalted traffic free forestry or agriculture or military roads (“Güterweg”): How
many km is on roads which are only open for the above mentioned special traffic
AND for cyclists? If it is not allowed to cycle on yet but the road exists it please
indicate in the comments. Asphalted means solid surface, it could be asphalt,
concrete, coble stone etc.).
o Non-asphalted traffic free forestry or agriculture or military roads (“Güterweg”):
How many km is on roads which are only open for the above mentioned special
traffic AND for cyclists? If it’s not allowed yet to cycle on, but the road exists please
indicate it in the notes. Non-asphalted means non-solid surface, sand, soil, gravel,
rocks etc.
o Low traffic asphalted public road: - How many km is on roads which are open for
motorised traffic AND for cyclists? If there are some traffic calming and bike
pictograms, multifunctional lanes on the road it still belongs to this category. If it
is not allowed yet to cycle on it, but the road exists please indicate it in the
comments. Being low traffic route has to be defined in your national standards,
but according our interpretation it means public roads with maximum 2,000
vehicle unit traffic per day, in case of traffic calming, speed reduction (up to
50km/h) it can go up to 4,000, but in case of significant heavy vehicle traffic even
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with 500 unit cannot be accepted. Asphalted means solid surface, it could be
asphalt, concrete, coble stone etc.
o High traffic asphalted public roads: How many km is on roads which are open for
motorised traffic AND for cyclists? If it is not allowed yet to cycle on it, but the
road exists please indicate it in your notes. Being high traffic route has to be
defined in your national standards, but according our interpretation it means
public roads with minimum 2,000 vehicle unit traffic per day, in case of traffic
calming / speed reduction (up to 50km/h) this can be 4,000, but in case of
significant heavy vehicle traffic even with 500 units it will be considered as hightraffic route. It practically means that you cannot cycle safely on it currently, so
only chose this itinerary, if there is no other solution. Those routes and lengths
will be considered on the European level as problematic sections where new
routes are needed. Asphalted means solid surface, it could be asphalt, concrete,
coble stone etc.
o Non-asphalted public roads: Again, please indicate how many km.
o Quality of the surface: Excellent - 4, good - 3, just appropriate / right - 2,
inappropriate -1.
 excellent (4) = solid. perfect even with road bike,
 good (3) = solid at every weather condition, but smaller problems, even
generally comfortable
 just appropriate / right (2) = not solid, in case of rain partly uncomfortable
but an average cycling tourist can absolve.
 inappropriate (1) = hard to ride if it’s wet, perhaps with mountain bike
good, but with trekking bike mostly not comfortable even if its dry
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Signposting*: 4 – existing with EV signs, 3 – existing with national / regional signs, 2poor / not complete, 1 - non – existing
Rest station: 3 - existing, 2 - poor / not complete, 1- non – existing
Counters (automatic): 2 - yes, 1 - no
Public transport connections: yes or no
o Railway station with good connection (>10 train departure / day)
o Railway station with low connection (<10 train / day)
o Bus terminal with bike transport possibility
o Bus stop with bike transport possibility
o Ferries and ships
 Step 3 - Existing Services: drop-down options
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Overnight
o Quality hotels, pensions (4 stars or more)
o Simple hotels (3 stars or less) motels, guesthouse
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o Farmhouse, home stay, bed and breakfast
o Camping
Food, beverage
o Restaurant, buffet
o Pub, cafe, “korcsma / Kneipe / krcma” house
o Shops, grocery
o Well, spring, possibility to access public drinking water
Services
o Baggage transfer
o Bike rental
o Pedelec rental
o Electric charging station for pedelec
o Bicycle repair and shop
 Step 4 - Existing marketing – promotion, information activities and tools (are existing
and which contain dedicated information for cycle tourists about the section) (drop
down options)
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Bookable offers / products
Printed promotion, information tools
o Leaflets, brochures
o Guidebooks, maps
Web based promotion tools
o Website
Internet campaigns
Hotline, information centre (for tourists generally)
Events (which could be interesting for cycling tourists)
 Step 5 - Existing organisations, financing resources
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o Organisations responsible for development and maintenance of the
infrastructure. Existing organization can mean a proper organization (Good), or
an existing with some missing functions, capacity (Some). If a responsible
organisation does not exists or not dedicated to the task please give code (None).
o Organisations responsible for development and maintenance of the service,
promotion.
o Financial resources for the development and maintenance of the infrastructure.
Financial resources for the development and maintenance of the service, promotion.
Existing financial resources can mean a proper national, regional, local funding allocated
to the tasks or available European subsidies for the current (2007-2013) period (Good),
or there are existing, available funds but there are some structural / financial problems
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(not every activity is eligible or / and level of the available funding is not enough) (Some).
If the level of funding is far not enough or missing (None).
Link to access to the overview route database in order to insert data: (please request this link
to ECF)
4. Further information
 If you do have any questions about the website, map or the process in general please
contact Jesús Freire on [email protected] or +32 2 8808 604
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