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...

120 participants talked and practiced cycling at the Big Bike Event, jointly organised by the transport teams of the Permanent Representations of the three Benelux countries to the EU. ECF’s key message at that event: “Achieving a level-playing...

The City of Oslo received the Cycling Embassy of Denmark’s (CED) Leadership award at a special Danish session at the Velo-city 2017 conference in Arnhem and Nijmegen, Netherlands, on 13 June 2017. First municipality to win Every year, the...

In partnership with the ECF’s Scientists for Cycling network, Radboud University successfully organised this year’s edition of the network’s Scientific Colloquium at the margins of the Velo-city conference in Nijmegen. A record-breaking number of...

It has been a successful week for CHIPS participating in the Velo-city 2017 conference last week: the official launch of the CHIPS video, an inspiring first cycle highway academy, the official opening of a mobility hub next to the cycle highway "...