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A new study analysing data from 17 countries estimates that the public health benefits of much higher levels of cycling could save more than 200,000 lives per y...A scenario in which 100% of urban car trips in 2050 are replaced by cycling would prevent 205,424 premature deaths due to reductions in air pollution and increases in reg...

13 Dec, 2021
The decade of the bicycle

World Bicycle Day, 3 June, may only come around once a year, but this decade could see the bicycle reclaim a central place in our societies – and mitigate the w...The world will need much more cycling if we are to overcome climate change, the most urgent crisis of our times. If we succeed, the 2020s could be the decade when the way...

03 Jun, 2021

By August 22, humans will have demanded as much from nature as Earth can renew in the whole year. This Earth Overshoot Day arrives more than three weeks later t...

20 Aug, 2020

On July 27, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a revolutionary plan to overhaul cycling and walking in England. This plan will ...

28 Jul, 2020

In a joint political declaration on Tuesday (14 July), Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands called on the EU to prioritise cycling in the post-virus recovery...

22 Jul, 2020

Cities’ initiatives promoting cycling are popping up everywhere in the world and it feels like it’s just the beginning....

07 Apr, 2020

Sunday 22 September was the World Car-Free Day, a special recurrence meant to help citizens understand what their city could look and feel like, if cars were ba...

24 Sep, 2019

The new Program Grid of Velo-city 2018 is now available online and constantly updating! You can now click on the different sessions to see their descr...

11 May, 2018

Behavior change is an important topic on the upcoming Velo-City 2018 conference program in Rio! Under the sub-theme Learn to live, which looks at how we learn t...

08 May, 2018

Cycling is all about “Happiness and Quality of Life” and therefore such a subtheme could not be missing from Velo-city 2018! Happiness and Quality of life broad...

30 Apr, 2018

Economic benefits of shopping by bike for the local retail. 

11 May, 2017

Andalucia, a member of the "Cities for Cyclists" network, has launched a renewed mobility plan for the employees of the Regions’s ‘Obras Públicas´ Agency. This...

22 Sep, 2016

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