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...

From 28-30 September, ECF joined the CIVITAS Forum in Gdynia, Poland. This annual conference brings together almost 500 cities, regions and other professionals working on sustainable transport in Europe, with some exceptions of global participants...

Breakthrough for "Radlobby", the Austrian member of ECF, and their campaign "Abstand macht sicher" (Distance for safety): "Radlobby" won a one-year court fight for the right for cyclists to keep a distance of 1,2 to 1,8 meters to parked cars in...

Congratulations to "Gijón Bus & Ride", the winner of the Velo-city 2017 conference ticket in our EUROPEANMOBILTIYWEEK contest. The entry received 1641 votes, the most of any entrant, and has been crowned the winner! After one and a...