At a two-day workshop in Brussels last week some of the worlds most advanced bike sharing cities came together with innovators in the bike sharing business community to tackle some of the challenges facing the bike share business today. The...

The F261, the fast cycle route along the Midden-Brabantweg from Waalwijk to Tilburg, becomes the first cycle highway in the Dutch Province of North Brabant with the new signposting. For the final selection of the design, 2 designs were...

Copacabana is a district located in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro and it offers today the opportunity of using a widespread network of bike lanes. It all began in the early 90's with the construction of the Orla bicycle lanes. In the middle of...

Swedish Minister for the Environment Karolina Skog helped launch the Swedish Traffic Safety Council for Active and Sustainable Mobility “Moving Beyond Zero”; a major rethink of Swedish road safety priorities on November 16, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden...

While German parties are still struggling to form a new coalition government, ECF’s German member, ADFC, strongly calls for a mobility transition. Germany has to overcome its car-centric transport policy and give a strong push to cycling, walking...

On 15 November in Italy, the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved the Framework Law on Cycling Mobility with a unanimous vote. All political groups agreed on the importance of a national push to cycling mobility, which marks a huge success and a...

  The Active Travel Hub is the first one in Northern Ireland and will be the base for the EU-funded project CHIPS that encourages commuters in the East Belfast corridor to try alternatives to the car such as public transport, or...

It was in 2012, during the pre-election period, that the idea of ​​the Ciclo Rotas Centro (Cycle Routes Center) emerged. This was a gift from civil society to the newly elected mayor of Rio de Janeiro, which aimed at creating a cycle network in the...

On the 15th of November 2017, the European Transport “ecosystem” came together in Strasbourg for the conference on the next Multi Financial Framework for Transport: Investing to connect Europe. Representatives from the European Parliament, the...

The Horizon 2020 Programme is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). The funding opportunities in this work programme are set out in thematic, multiannual work...

ECF welcomes a European Parliament report[1] voted in plenary today that calls on the European Commission to make ground-breaking safety technologies compulsory in all new vehicles. This has been and continues to be a focus of ECF road safety...

The use of bicycles and tricycles to deliver goods and services is fast-growing and it is becoming a trend in Europe and the U.S., generally due to environmental issues and often with the support of public policies.However, in Rio de Janeiro...