Arriving at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, we immediately see a bicycle welcoming us to this high-level conference. But just how high is cycling on the agenda? On December 3rd, 2015 there was a special session on transport...

  Five cities have tried out new ways of changing car drivers’ behavior for short car trips. They experimented with specific target groups that are in a life change moment and brought in ICT-tools, personalized travel planning and health arguments...

Cycling is entering a ‘golden age’ in Spain. More and more Spaniards use their bicycles as a daily means of transportation and decision makers are increasingly taking cycling into account. It would not be possible without the work of the ECF’s...

The transport sector continues to be highly dependent on fossil fuels. Without a paradigm shift in transport, the energy transition is doomed to fail. An own-initiative report adopted yesterday by the European Parliament discusses the future of...

In the beginning of November, ECF participated in the 5th International  Conference „Towards a Humane City“ in Novi Sad, Serbia. The event brought together researchers, policy makers and advocates working on sustainable transport. Thanks to the...

ECF has been invited to steer the cycling recommendations ahead of the Commission’s new urban logistics guidelines. Therefore, we organized a European Round Table on Cyclelogistics to consult key stakeholders from industry, cities, EU MEPs &...

Two Years after being taken over by Intersport, the story of the French factory established in West of France has become a strong case-study in demonstrating that bike industry contributes to achieve European reindustrialization and job creation’s...

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is putting itself firmly on the cycling map by investing unprecedented amounts of money into the development of cycling. An ECF analysis. Luxembourg Transport Minister, François Bausch, is walking the talk. After he...

 Photo credit: David McKelvey on FlickR   Eurostar has reversed its decision to force cyclists to dismantle their bikes. After a collaborative campaign run by several ECF members, Eurostar announced last Friday that it was cancelling its proposed...

The incredible potential of dramatically increasing cycling is captured for the first time in a scientific study carried out by ITDP and UC Davis. A Global High Shift Cycling Scenario shows that cycling and e-biking can cut energy use and CO2...

 Bernhard Ensink, ECF Secretary General with Madeleine Majorenko (Head of the European Economic and Trade Office), one of the many representatives that came to support Velo-city.   Press release Taipei (Taiwan) 2 November 2015 For immediate...

A new report by the Dutch Knowledge Institute of Mobility Management (KiM) gives an in-depth analysis about the status quo of the active transport modes – cycling and walking – in the Netherlands. The report title is very telling: ‘Cycling and...