URBAN SUGGESTIONS FOR INTEGRATING BICYCLES INTO THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORK APPLICATION ON TAHRIR STREET, GIZA GOVERNORATE مقترحات عمرانية لدمج الدراجة في شبکة المواصلات بالتطبيق على شارع التحرير بمحافظة الجيزة
The Greater Cairo suffers from several problems, such as traffic jams, which causes increasing in air pollution on one hand, and on the other hand, the congestion of public transportation with passengers all hours of the day lead to increasing in the spread of infection, especially after the world was exposed to the Corona pandemic “Covid-19” and the recommendations of the World Health Organization to adhere to social distancing to reduce the spread of infection. Bicycles are considered one of the sustainable & healthy modes of transportation, in addition of its low-cost and the positive environmental impacts of their use. Several countries have succeeded in integrating bicycles as an essential component of the urban transport network. In local level, a group of initiatives have appeared in recent years in the various governorates of Egypt, which encourage young people to use bicycles for exercise, and visiting tourist facilities, these initiatives was very popular. The research aims to develop urban suggestions for integrating bicycles into the public transportation network and facilitating their use as an alternative or intermediate means of transportation. The research uses the inductive-analytical method, which depends on studying some international experiences in the use of bicycles as a means of transportation, as well as conducting a field research to extrapolate the opinions of citizens about the obstacles and advantages of using bicycles. The research ends with urban suggestions deduced from the theoretical and field part and applying them to a part of the existing urban area in Giza Governorate. يعاني إقليم القاهرة الکبرى من عدة مشاکل أهمها الاختناقات المرورية وزيادة عدد المرکبات مما يسبب زيادة تلوث الهواء من ناتج المحروقات من جهة، ومن جهة أخرى يسبب ازدحام المواصلات العامة بالرکاب طوال ساعات اليوم إلى زيادة نسبة انتشار العدوى خاصة بعد تعرض العالم لجائحة کورونا "کوفيد-19" وتوصيات منظمة الصحة العالمية بالالتزام بالتباعد الاجتماعي للحد من انتشار العدوى. تعد الدراجات أحد وسائل النقل المستدامة لکونها من وسائل المواصلات الصحية ذات التکلفة المنخفضة إلى جانب التأثيرات البيئية الإيجابية لاستخدامها، وقد نجحت عدة دول في دمج الدراجات کعنصر أساسي في شبکة النقل في المناطق الحضرية. وقد ظهرت في السنوات الأخيرة مجموعة من المبادرات الفردية في مختلف محافظات جمهورية مصر العربية والتي تشجع الشباب على استخدام الدراجات لأغراض...