Velo-city kicks off with a stimulating discussion about “City for all”. In a nutshell, the main theme of the plenary will focus on accessible cities to all, arguing that sustainable urban development means inclusion of kids, elderly, disabled, women...

Velo-city 2018 article series featuring mini interviews on plenary speakers continue with Viviana Tobón, plenary speaker for the plenary: Intermodality! Ms. Tobón is a lawyer of the Universidad Externado de Colombia, expert on Civil and State...

The European Commission started today infringement procedures against France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and the United Kingdom for violating EU air quality rules [1]. More than 400,000 Europeans die prematurely every year due to poor air...

On May 11, ECF member Latvijas Riteņbraucēju apvienība (Latvian Cyclists’ Union) organised the traditional Riga Cycling Conference, bringing together bicycle planners and cycling enthusiasts. The theme of this year's event was integrated planning...

The narrative of Velo-city 2018 tells us that to “Learn to Live in order to achieve Happiness and Quality of Life, we need to Integrate Life and Transport generating a Lively Economy. The city of the future is a city with Access to Life”. Diving...

Today the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive took the last legislative hurdle by being adopted in Council [1]. Among other, it promotes electro-mobility by setting up a framework for parking spaces for electric vehicles. It also...

Instead of cutting trees to widen carriageway, an old car connection between Nijmegen and Beuningen was turned into a cycle path. Now this tree-lined avenue is a particularly scenic section of cycle highway Batavierenpad Zuid. Beuningen is a...

The #VisionaryCities Series is a collection of best practices and success stories from visionary local authority leaders contributing to making Cycling in Europe better, safer and more common. We are going to be inviting some of them to share...

The new Program Grid of Velo-city 2018 is now available online and constantly updating! You can now click on the different sessions to see their descriptions, format and participating speakers and choose in which one you prefer to...

Velo-city 2018 article series featuring mini interviews on plenary speakers continue with Livia Suarez, plenary speaker for the opening plenary: City for All. Livia Suarez is a graduate from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil and a researcher...

The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) is pleased to announce that it has selected Belgian Limburg to host the fourth edition of the EuroVelo and Cycle Tourism Conference. The premier Cycle Tourism Conference in Europe will take place in Limburg...

Behavior change is an important topic on the upcoming Velo-City 2018 conference program in Rio! Under the sub-theme Learn to live, which looks at how we learn to live together through the lens of mobility, more than one session will be devoted to...