Proposal:Foot cycleway

Shared foot- and cycleway
Proposal status:	Draft (under way)
Proposed by:	ulamm
Tagging:	highway=foot_cycleway
Applies to:	linear
Definition:	Slim tagging of a path or track that is designated for shared use of pedestrians and cyclists on eqal rights.
Statistics:
Rendered as:	Shape and colours of the sigature shall be between those of footway and cycletrack
Draft started:	2014-12-28
RFC start:	2014-12-28

Several coutries have sideways as well as indepdent tracks and paths for shared use of pedestrians and cyclists, marked by a special road sign. This shared use on equal rights has to be distinguished from the permission to cycle on footways in pedestrian speed.

Rationale

Nowadays, such ways are recorded by a combination of four tags: highway=path or highway=cycleway with bicycle=designated + foot=designated + segregated=no, this does not even include the necessary recording of the cycling direction or bidirectionality and (in a country that provides both possibilities) obligatory vs. optional, nor informations on surface (also inevitable) and widths.

Such a standard class of ways has to be defined by one tag instead of four ones: highway=foot_cycleway

International survey

no image	Australia	sign R8-2
and	Austria	left: sign 17a-a, obligatory (for both) right: sign 28a, optional for cyclists)
	Belgium	sign D10
none	Brasilia
	Canada
	Czech Republic	sign C 9a
none	Denmark
	Finland	sign 423
and	France	left: shared zone for pedestrians and cyclists right: sign C115 on greenways
	Germany	sign 240
	Greece	sign P66
	Hungary	sign D-027
	Israel
none	Italy
	Japan	sign 325-3
	Norway	sign 522.0
or	Poland	sign C-13-16
	Portugal	sign D7e
?	Romania
	Russia	sign 4.5.2
none	South Africa
none	Spain
	Sweden	sign D6
	Switzerland	sign 2.63.1
	United Kingdom	sign 956
none	USA

Name

• Why not simply highway=foot_cycle?

The term ought to be available also for roadline-tagged tracks, such as

highway=secundary + foot_cycleway:right=forward + cycleway:left=backward + sidewalk=left.

• Why not highway=footcycleway?

That won't be wrong. It's a matter of dicussion, if the name with or without underscore is preferred.

Tagging

Like highway=footway and highway=cycleway

Rendering

Signature in an intermediate colour between footway colour and cycleway colour.

Routing

Speed score below carriageways and pure cycletracks, but better than tracks and paths with "footway/cycling permitted"-signs.