In October 2009 the track for the Rio Olympics began. Seven years to prepare the house for the party! Now, in October 2016, the party is over, it was wonderful and definitely a mark in the city which, although it still keeps on the same centenary...

Have you seen this logo? The pilot project "Fietssnelwegen" is a part of the CHIPS project work package on readability. The objective of the CHIPS (Cycle Highways Innovation for smarter People Transport and Spatial Planning) project is to...

The Dutch government will provide 40 million Euro of funding for bicycle parking at train stations. Provinces and municipalities will add the same amount of money. The total amount of 80 million Euros will be enough to solve the biggest problems...

Bike Anjo, Transporte Ativo and UCB, the Brazilian members of the World Cycling Alliance, supported by the Instituto Clima e Sociedade, have published a guide “How to Include Cycling in Urban Mobility Plans”. Although this guide is based on the...

A detailed report on non-motorized transport (NMT) which includes walking and cycling was released in September 2016 by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). In its foreword, the UNEP Executive Director Erik Soldheim calls for “mobility of...

In October 2016, the EU has presented its first “State of EU Cities” report at the UN Habitat III in Quito and at the Committee of the Regions. The report analyses the performance of European cities with regard to the priority themes of the Urban...

On 19th-20th of November, 2016 the Second China Cycling Conference will be launched in Shenzhen city, hosted by Green Bike Transit. Scholars and other experts in a sector will focus on the topic of cycling as a mean of transport. Discussions will...

  Groningen is set to spend €85,000,000 promoting cycling in the next 5 years. This was confirmed by the city cycling policy officer, Mr Jaap Valkema, who pointed out that funding comes from municipal, regional and federal budgets.  That...

Closing the European Mobility Week 2016 on 22nd of September twelve enterprises and municipalities were awarded for the investment in the development of cycling infrastructure and for building cyclist friendly bicycle stands and twenty-eight...

After three years of negotiations,The New Urban Agenda (NUA) has been adopted at the bi-decennial United Nations (UN) Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) which took place on the 17th – 20th of October 2016 in...

After Deutsche Bahn (DB) announced earlier this year that its new ICE-4 generation trains will allow 8 complete bicycles on board, there is more good news from the bike-and-train world, and this time it is coming from the Netherlands. Dutch Railways...

The Committee of Regions (CoR) adopted today by a vast majority the opinion on ‘An EU Roadmap for cycling’. After the Member States and the European Parliament, the CoR is the latest EU institution to call upon the European Commission to develop a...