Dankmar Alrutz

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Dankmar Alrutz (born June 29, 1950 in Hann. Münden ) is a German traffic scientist , civil engineer , traffic planner and expert in Hanover . He is one of the leading German researchers and planners in the field of bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

Life

Alrutz studied civil engineering with a specialization in traffic planning at the then Technical University of Hanover from 1971 to 1978 . After four years from 1978 to 1982 as an employee at the advice center for loss prevention of the HUK Association (now: Accident Research of Insurers in the German Insurance Association (GDV)), he completed a legal clerkship in Lower Saxony , which he successfully completed as a construction assessor . From 1984 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Transport, Roads and Urban Development at the University of Hanover under Professor Robert Schnüll. In 1986 he founded the engineering office Planungsgemeinschaft Verkehr (PGV) in Hanover as one of three managing directors. In 2012 PGV created two independent offices, including PGV-Alrutz, whose business he runs together with two partners. Alrutz is married and has three children.

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Alrutz was already working for the HUK Association (since 1978) with the safety of cycling , to which a significant part of his work has been dedicated ever since. He is one of the authors of the Recommendations for Bicycle Traffic Facilities (ERA) in the 1982 edition (at that time recommendations for the construction, operation and maintenance of bicycle traffic facilities ). He was significantly involved in the new versions of ERA 95 (1995) and the currently valid ERA 2010. These works, especially the editions of ERA 95 and ERA 2010, which are published by the Research Association for Roads and Transport (FGSV), have (when applied consistently) have contributed significantly to a significant increase in bicycle traffic in numerous German municipalities . Alrutz was also significantly involved in some chapters of the guidelines for the construction of city streets (RASt 06). The RASt 06 is today the most important set of rules for the design of urban roads in Germany.

In numerous research projects, Alrutz has gathered insights into road safety , the behavior and preferences of cyclists and, to a lesser extent, pedestrians . He has, among other things cycling tours and design options to nodes with or without traffic signals and roundabouts in access roads open, in bicycle traffic in the opposite direction as well not open one-way streets in bicycle roads , on bicycle lanes and protective strips in major roads , including the highway gained insights. These results from numerous research work under the direction of Alrutz led to the further development of the FGSV regulations, the adaptation of legal framework conditions (e.g. the opening of one-way streets for bicycle traffic in the opposite direction in the Road Traffic Act (StVO)) and the further development of bicycle traffic management in practice.

In 1986 he and two co-authors published the second edition of the Handbuch für Radverkehranlagen in Otto Elsner Verlag , a standard work on the subject for a long time (the first edition by Heinrich Richard dates from 1981). Other publications to be highlighted are the extensive documentation on securing bicycle traffic from 1989 (with Hans W. Fechtel and Juliane Krause), occasionally referred to as "The Bible" because of its size (557 A4 pages of text, 43 pages of bibliography). Although the logic is not entirely correct, Alrutz himself has been called "Bicycle Pope" or " ERA Pope" in isolated cases since the early 1990s .

Mention should be made of the reports on the first (1999) and second bicycle reports (2007) together with the annex by the federal government , as a result of which the (first) National Cycling Plan (NRVP) 2002-2012 and the second National Cycling Plan 2020 were drawn up and approved by the cabinet . These are the basis of the increased willingness to invest as well as the increased political attention of the Federal Government and the Bundestag with regard to cycling.

Alrutz has developed expert and moderating strategic recommendations for several federal states, for example the cycling strategy for Hamburg in 2007 , the (at times sluggish) implementation of which is documented in progress reports every two years, carried out impact controls in Baden-Württemberg in 2014 and the bicycle mobility concept for Lower Saxony since 2017 .

Alrutz has been promoting the subject of rapid cycle connections in Germany since 2010 . He is head of working group 2.5.4 of the FGSV on this topic. Since 2017 exists for a change to the federal highway law the possibility of the construction of Radschnellverbindungen by the federal government promote to let as before in several states.

From 2001 to 2015, Alrutz was a member of the jury for the State Bicycle-Friendly Community of Lower Saxony . This is a prize from the State of Lower Saxony endowed with up to 25,000 euros for particularly active municipalities or outstanding individual projects. Other members of the jury were representatives of the parliamentary groups in the Lower Saxony state parliament , the municipal umbrella organizations and the ADFC . The results of the annual competition were published in the brochures "Fahrradland Niedersachsen". The state award laid an important foundation stone for the establishment of the working group for bicycle-friendly municipalities in Lower Saxony / Bremen (AGFK).

Alrutz has written articles in specialist journals, in the handbook for municipal transport planning and other publications, partly with co-authors , on many findings from research projects and planning practice . Alrutz is represented with 47 publications since 1980 in the literature database for the National Cycling Plan on nrvp.de, which also contains gray literature .

Alrutz held lectures and presentations at numerous events of various institutions, including a. at the General German Automobile Club , the German Road Safety Council (DVR) , the German Road and Traffic Congress , the Bicycle Academy, the National Bicycle Traffic Congress and the AGFKs in Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony / Bremen .

Activity in associations

Alrutz was for a long time chairman of the working group 2.5 Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic of the FGSV and was a member of the working group 2.5.1 Current issues in cycling from its establishment until 2019 , now an update of the ERA . In this, among other things, the versions of the recommendations for bicycle traffic facilities (ERA 95 and ERA 2010) were drawn up. In the working group 2.5.1 and with Alrutz 'essential involvement, the leaflet on trailblazing signs for cycling was also published in 1998. Thereafter, a more or less comprehensive, relatively uniform bicycle signposting was established in numerous regions of Germany. Compliance with the information sheet with country-specific modifications is now a requirement for funding in most federal states . Alrutz was and is also head of the ad hoc working group (now working group 2.5.4) of the FGSV, in which the working paper on the use and design of high-speed cycle connections , published in 2014, was developed, which today has a significant impact on the planning of high-speed cycle routes . He continues to be involved in its ongoing revision as head of working group 2.5.4.

Further memberships exist in the Association of Road Construction and Transport Engineers in Lower Saxony (VSVI), where he has now given numerous lectures at their seminars in almost all state associations, as well as in general German Bicycle Club (ADFC) and the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD).

Awards

Alrutz received the FGSV badge of honor at the 2008 German Road and Transport Congress. He was referred to there as the "father of ERA 95".

Quotes

  • "Better no bike path than a bad one."
  • “The practice of many municipalities to create cycle paths in a fast and inexpensive way, especially by marking sidewalks, must be assessed critically . Experience shows that such cycle paths very often do not bring the desired safety gain. From this point of view, the rectification of deficiencies on existing cycle paths is also very important. "(Emphasis in the original)
  • "The danger comes from the right!" Bon mot from Alrutz in a lecture on protective strips that the dangers for cyclists arise from unexpectedly opened car doors than from following and overtaking cars

Publications

Selection, partly with (other) co-authors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First report by the Federal Government on the situation of bicycle traffic in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998. (PDF) Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development , March 1999, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  2. ^ Second bicycle report by the Federal Government - final report. (PDF) Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development , May 2007, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  3. Second Bicycle Report of the Federal Government - Final Report - Appendix. (PDF) Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development , May 2007, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  4. National Cycling Plan for Germany 2002 to 2012 - FahrRad! Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing , archived from the original on June 5, 2012 ; Retrieved January 5, 2012 .
  5. ^ National Cycling Plan 2020. In: Fahrradportal. Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  6. 1. Effectiveness check 2014 on fahrradland.de
  7. Dankmar Alrutz: The state-wide bicycle mobility concept for Lower Saxony. (PDF, 1.5 MB) Symposium Bicycle State Lower Saxony on November 30, 2017 in Oldenburg. Working group for bicycle-friendly municipalities in Lower Saxony / Bremen, November 30, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2020 . . Available at the 2017 symposium
  8. 2.5.4 Bicycle fast connections. Head of Dipl.-Ing. Dankmar Alrutz. Research Society for Roads and Transport , August 29, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2020 (Committee: WG 2 (road design), Working Committee 2.5 (bicycle traffic), Working group 2.5.4 (rapid cycle connections)).
  9. Press release of the nds. Ministry of Economy
  10. exemplary brochure Fahrradland Niedersachsen 2015
  11. Bicycle portal NRVP.de: FGSV badge of honor for Dankmar Alrutz
  12. ^ Research Service Bicycle 174 zu Pfundt, Alrutz 1992
  13. Alrutz, Fechtel, Krause: Documentation for securing bicycle traffic, Bergisch Gladbach 1989.