Western Pomerania will test a nationwide system for standardising cycle routes

The document was signed on behalf of the provincial government by Deputy Marshal Anna Bańkowska and Deputy Marshal Jakub Kowalik. On behalf of the Polish Tourist Organisation, the signatory was Vice-President Małgorzata Wilk-Grzywna.

"Western Pomerania is a modern, creative and entrepreneurial region. We are an eco-region, an eco-model for the whole of Poland. We produce the largest amount of energy from renewable sources, and the second reason is our state-of-the-art train fleet – these are mainly electric and hybrid trains, but what distinguishes us from the rest of Poland is that we focus on building cycle routes. Let me just remind you that in the first stage, nearly 1,100 km were built, and in the second stage, which we started in 2025, we will build another 400 km. We will therefore have 1,500 km of picturesque cycle routes, says Jakub Kowalik, Deputy Marshal of the West Pomeranian Province.

The signed agreement concerns the transfer of an application scheme by the Polish Tourist Organisation, i.e. a model of national cycling infrastructure, which aims to standardise data on routes throughout the country. The tool will enable uniform and consistent description of cycle routes in Poland, including their names, numbers, categories and surface types. The standardised database will be available for use by local authorities, cyclists and investors to create geoportals, maps, tourist portals and mobile applications.

– Western Pomerania is a special place, a leader in the construction of long-distance cycle routes and the implementation of cycling policy. This makes me all the more eager to sign an agreement with the West Pomeranian Province on the transfer of the cycle route database. It is a scheme that describes cycle routes in Poland in a uniform and standardised manner. I am very pleased that the West Pomeranian Province will be testing this scheme in its territory. It is here that a pilot project will be carried out in 2026,” said Małgorzata Wilk-Grzywna, Vice-President of the Polish Tourist Organisation.

The scheme was developed by the Cycling Mobility Team operating at the Union of Provinces of the Republic of Poland, which sought to unify the method of collecting spatial data on cycle routes throughout the country. The substantive assumptions were developed in cooperation with the Warsaw University of Technology. After the creation of the EuroVelo Route Coordination Centre within the structures of the Polish Tourist Organisation, a tool for collecting and processing data was commissioned. The pilot implementation of the system will take place in Western Pomerania.