Tools Trial & Error: the old route-identity of the HST Cycle Highway

Trial & Error: the old route-identity of the HST Cycle Highway
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Identity
Tooltype
Trial & Error
Scale
Route
Location
Vlaams-Brabant, Leuven, Brussels
Readability tool main characteristics
Title
Trial & Error: the old route-identity of the HST Cycle Highway
Playlist
Identity
Tooltype
Trial & Error
Scale
Route
Does the readability tool encompass a certain location?
Yes
Location
Vlaams-Brabant, Leuven, Brussels
To whom is the tool primarily directed?
Potential user (anyone who might use the mobility product)
Readability tool branding strategy
Is the tool related to
Other mobility product

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Readability tool description

In 2010, the first cycle highway of Flemish Brabant was signposted. 

The cycle highway was called HST-route, because it followed the High Speed Train-railway track. The branding of this route was very local. 

Later on, while new cycle highways were build, our need to have a branding and naming for the whole network increased. 

In 2016, these signposts were replaced by the new wayfinding system applied to all cycle highways in Flanders (network identity). The name changed from HST-route to F3. 

 

 

 

 

Functionality
  • Local name that can easily be used and communicated.
  • Due to the local scale there are no economies of scale: more efforts are needed to bring potential users in touch with the cycling route.
  • No network-branding

The HST-route is now branded as the F3 cycle highway between Leuven and Brussels. Browse the Readability Toolbox for more information on the code-logo identity-strategy in Flanders.

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