During last month’s Velo-city conference in the Netherlands, an unusual event was organised to spread the word about the excellent examples the Dutch set in combined bike and train journeys.  Over 20 journalists from around the world...

In December 2016, the European Commission proposed a revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive with the overall view of increasing the energy efficiency of the building sector. For the first time, a linkage with the mobility sector...

CHIPS project partner, the Dutch province of Gelderland can be an example on how to minimise the number of stops and interruptions on a cycle highway. Cycling 18 km on the RijnWaalpad between Arnhem and Nijmegen train stations, you only have to...

PEBSS seeks to embed bike-share at the core of urban (shared) mobility as one of its most efficient, flexible and affordable solutions. These two documents we developed are meant to guide cities, local authorities and their transport departments in...

NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, through its most recent publication for guidance on ‘Air Pollution: Outdoor Air Quality and Health’ [1], strongly supports urban speed reduction for better air quality. Speed limits of...

‘Roll-estate’, a new concept that seeks to utilize retail space along bicycle routes to further encourage and facilitate cycling, premiered in the Netherlands during Velo-city week in June 2017. Developed by CycleSpace and CHIPS partners, the roll...

On the 11th July 2017 ECF was invited to the meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism and a separate meeting with Antonio Tajani the President of the European Parliament. The Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry...

Cyclist.ie, in collaboration with Dublin Cycling Campaign, have developed a tradition of holding a special meeting back at home soon after the end of each Velo-city to exchange and disseminate the best ideas encountered by Irish delegates...

CHIPS partner the Province of Gelderland celebrated the finish of their first e-bike pilot at the Van Hall Larenstein School, on the 4th of July. For the duration of the pilot- which was launched in September 2016, the participants were able to ride...

The first Cycle Highway Academy (CHA) successfully took place in the Netherlands during Velo-city 2017, this past June. The second edition will take place on 4-5th of October 2017 in London. It will be a two-day session, focusing on the “Design and...

We've long been fans of cycling for tranSPORT, cycling to sport, and even now and then cycling as a sport, as long as you're doing it yourself! As ECF’s health policy officer I'm not really a big fan of major sports events. That’s first and foremost...

The Platform for European Bicycle Sharing and Systems kicked-off with a bang. Over a hundred leaders of the top global industries in the shared bicycle mobility space gathered in Arnhem to initiate PEBSS, the first and only European forum for...