Munich will invest €22 million to support all types of e-mobility, contrary to the federal purchase subsidy scheme favouring e-cars and hybrid cars only The City of Munich shows the way how public support for e-mobility solutions should work. With a...

Opening last May, the 600 m segment alongside the Bassin de l’Arsenal kicks off the realization of the new cycling highways network, as a part of the far-reaching Plan Velo 2015-2020 A proud Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Twitter, May 18th,...

The market value of data in the age of the Internet of Things was estimated at US$19 trillion per year by the CEO of CISCO in 2014, of which $4.6 trillion was public sector savings – cities working better through interconnectivity. In the...

PRAGUE, 15/07/2016 – More than thirteen hundred cyclists voted in historically first Czech Cycle Barometer of cities and towns. The thirty questions contained in the first National Cycle Barometer regarded evaluating the country’s cycling...

The city of Dublin is planning to make one of the main hubs in the inner city car, busses and taxis free. College Green, now hardly recognizable as a square, will be given back to the Dubliners, together with some surrounding streets. It will become...

BRUSSELS, 14/07/2016 - This month the Slovaks took up the EU rotating presidency, with a number of events. The full program is here.  ECF will attend the conference on Education in and through Sport which the Slovak government is...

Brussels 13/07/2016 – We need more and better targeted funding if we want Europe to remain world’s top tourism destination: this was the main message delivered by the European Cyclists’ Federation during a debate of high-level tourism stakeholders...

From 8 to 10 June, environment ministers and state secretaries from the pan-European region, including Russia and Central Asia, met in Batumi, Georgia, to discuss the way forward to a greener economy. At this occasion, THE PEP (the Transport, Health...

Brussels, 05/07/2016. By including support for a sustainable travel hierarchy and a doubling of cycling across the EU-28 over the next 10 years, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) own-initiative report on a ‘EU Roadmap for Cycling’ took a big...

After long negotiations, the European Union has finally decided on an update of the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive) to improve air quality in Europe. The NEC Directive sets new limits on air pollution from transport,...

A bold initiative by a group of activists, scientists and urban planners set an example of a new and effective type of cycling advocacy. If it is true that “Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities”, as UN Secretary...

ECF has started work to put cycling into a number of platforms and initiatives that will be needed for Smarter Cycling to become a reality. This is the beginning of a process that will open up to the members of the Cycling Industry Club and the...