The Bicycle Master Plan of Zaragoza BMPZ, developed in 2010, serves as the policy framework for the City Council and other authorities involved in cycling in Zaragoza. It aligns with the principles of the Zaragoza Sustainable Mobility Plan by focusing on expanding the cycling network and promoting bike use in the city. It sets forth several objectives, including:

Encouraging more sustainable mobility options.

Designing an efficient, connected, and safe cycling network throughout the entire region.
Promoting the use of bicycles for daily transportation, sports, and leisure activities.
Encouraging intermodality and integrating private and public bicycle use.
Analyzing applicable regulations for both public and private transport.

Regarding waterways, the BMPZ considers peri-urban cycle paths and their connections with urban cycling routes. It also explores how these paths can connect to rural neighborhoods and peripheral natural areas marked by paleo-rivers such as La Cartuja, Juslibol, and La Alfranca. The master plan identifies and defines future routes while providing technical guidelines for building bike lanes.

By implementing the BMPZ, Zaragoza aims to create a comprehensive cycling infrastructure that promotes sustainable mobility, connectivity, and accessibility while considering waterways' unique characteristics and surrounding areas.

The Strategy for Sustainable Tourism Development in Destination Kystlandet (2024-2030) focuses on environmental, social, and economic sustainability, with a key emphasis on promoting sustainable mobility and cycling infrastructure for both locals and tourists.

The strategy is complemented by a dynamic action plan, revised biennially by the elected board.

Key policy areas include developing cycling infrastructure, intramodality for cycling routes connecting cities and rural areas, raising awareness of cycling importance, and promoting water-related heritage. In response to local progress, as confirmed during the December 20, 2023, board meeting, Destination Kystlandet adapts its strategic policy lines to address upcoming sustainability challenges.

Aligning with their anticipated involvement in the CYCLING WATERWAYS project, strategic objectives include infrastructure development, co-utilization for tourism and local mobility, and sustainability in municipal connections. This updated framework reflects a proactive response to tourism development dynamics, aiming for integrated, forward-thinking, and sustainable policy strategies.

Regional development program's (RDP) is an instrument of regional policy whose main objective is to harmonize the development goals of the region in the field of economic, social, educational, public health, spatial and environmental, and cultural development and to assess the instruments and resources for their implementation. RDPs are prepared at the development region's level, a territorial unit of NUTS 3 - Gorenjska, which includes 18 municipalities.

The strategic part of the RDP - the regional development strategy represents a common starting point for development at the regional level. It provides the basis for goal-oriented development planning while considering the interventions in the region.

Sustainable mobility is an essential measure under the environmental priority, although the topic of sustainable mobility in connection with cycling along waterways has yet to be specifically addressed.

Because a significant portion of the cycling possibilities for the territory is linked with its rivers and streams, there are significant challenges in using the already existing trails (multifunctionality, tourism, protection of nature…) and in its expected expansion.

Raising development potentials and exploiting global opportunities through international interregional integration and cooperation is one of the overarching objectives of the regional policy for 2030.

The South-West Oltenia Regional Development Plan 2021-2027 serves as the primary planning document at the regional level. It aligns with European and national development policies while addressing the specific needs and challenges of the region. The plan provides a strategic framework for initiating projects and serves as a reference for national authorities, local authorities, and potential investors.

The plan includes the Regional Development Strategy, which outlines objectives, priorities, actions, and measures. It is implemented through an action plan that includes monitoring and evaluation components, as well as a portfolio of projects.

Within the SWO regional development strategy, the modernization and development of regional infrastructure has been identified as a priority area. Specifically, the focus is on the development of sustainable trans-European transport networks, national, regional, and cross-border mobility.

Under the Regional Development Plan, financing is allocated to Priority 4 - Sustainable urban mobility, specifically Action 1 - Support for sustainable urban transport. The specific objective, RSO2.8, aims to implement sustainable, climate-resilient, intelligent, and intermodal mobility interventions in roads, streets, and transportation infrastructure. This includes the introduction or reconfiguration of bicycle paths, tram or trolleybus lines, exclusive traffic lanes for buses or public transport, and the expansion of sidewalks to encourage walking.

Approved in 2020, the cycling program consists of a joint master plan for developing cycling facilities and a series of actions to facilitate and encourage cycling. It represents the next step after the vote on the simplified mobility plan.
It primarily focuses in:
- cycling facilities (cycling paths, lanes, other traffic-related facilitiesmeeting zones, contra-flow bicycle lanes, use of the green lane along the waterway, etc.)
- secured cycle parking: close to transport hubs for multimodal access, etc.

Ardenne Métropole's cycling program also includes the following measures:
-financial contribution for the purchase of a new or reconditioned bicycle
-introduction of public bicycle rental solutions, in line with the public transport offer and the tourism development plan (part of which concerns waterways, with mention of the "fluvestre" issue, in French ‘fluvial’+‘pedestre’, in order to create a link between "waterway" and "pedestrian - bicycle" uses).

A multi-annual programme authorisation of €3 million has been voted

At the same time, the French ‘Grand East’ Region, Voies Navigables de France, the Departement des Ardennes and the intercommunal bodies have started working together on the Ardennes Canal, with the aim of improving the range of development of river and fluvial tourism services on the canal .The Meuse Canal represent an opportunity and a major axis for tourism development, by the presence of the greenway, recognised by Eurovelo 1, currently under-exploited

The RP Piemonte ERDF 2021-2027 was approved with Decision C(2022) 7270 on October 7, 2022.

Among its priorities, Priority III - Sustainable urban mobility (Strategic Objective 2) focuses on improving cycling. A budget of €40,000,000 has been allocated for interventions that align with the objective RRSO2.8: "Promote sustainable multimodal urban mobility as part of the transition to a net-zero carbon economy." Cycling is recognized as a vital component of future urban mobility systems, in accordance with the Regional Transport Mobility Plan, Regional Air Quality Plan, and forthcoming Regional Cycling Mobility Plan.

Additionally, Priority V - Cohesion and territorial development targets the "intermediate spaces" situated between "peripheral poles" (central cities within local systems) and dispersed settlement areas (small municipalities). The program aims to leverage cultural heritage and urban regeneration as development opportunities, fostering the reduction of territorial disparities. Objective RSO5.2: "Promote locally integrated and inclusive social, economic and environmental development, culture, natural heritage, sustainable tourism, and security in non-urban areas" guides this priority. It entails enhancing natural and cultural resources through the creation of light infrastructure for gentle land use (such as cycle paths) and the reuse of heritage sites.