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The revised European directive on road infrastructure safety management (RISM2) obliged member states to take vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyc...ECF highlights the importance of road safety audits and reports some examples on how the Dutch province of North Brabant keeps its roads safe for cyclists.

10 Jan, 2023

The Flemish cycle highway network in Belgium is the most comprehensive plan to connect cities, towns, suburbs and workplaces across the whole region through hig...ECF looks at the Flemish cycle highway network to highlight the crossover between cycling and TEN-T infrastructure. 49% of the network interacts with TEN-T, emphasising t...

27 Sep, 2022

The F3 cycle highway connects Leuven with Brussels, following service roads built as a part of a railway upgrade in 2006. But as the cycle highway was not part...Recently opened section of F3 cycle highway costs a record €32.5 million, a price tag which highlights exactly why cycling infrastructure needs to be considered from the...

01 Jun, 2022

There is a long-standing superstition that cycle tracks should not be built alongside motorways. But the experience of administrations who have dared to think d...ECF uses the case study of the F203 cycle highway in Brussels to demonstrate the advantages of building a cycle track alongside a motorway, while also highlighting the be...

20 May, 2022

Many existing policy guidelines cover the principles of planning and designing cycling infrastructure. However, most of them have been developed with a focus on...As bicycles continue to evolve as means of transport, ECF takes a look at the different infrastructure user groups that must be considered when developing widespread regi...

21 Oct, 2021
F3 - a cycle highway along a high speed railway; photo credit: Province Flemish Brabant

The F3 cycle highway connects Leuven with Brussels, most of the time following service roads built as a part of a TEN-T railway upgrade. But several investments...

20 Nov, 2020

The CHIPS project (Cycle Highways Innovation for smarter People transport and Spatial planning) financed by Interreg North-West Europe has been 3 year...

27 Jun, 2019

The CHIPS (Cycle Highways Innovation for smarter People Transport and Spatial Planning) final conference summarised 3 years of knowledge sharing and research be...

27 May, 2019

The most visible upgrades on the section of the cycle highway F1 between Mechelen and Vilvoorde in Belgium is the new asphalt surfacing on the towpath along Zen...

21 Mar, 2019
Cycling Underwater Mini Series – Kennedy Tunnel in Antwerp

Underwater tunnels are not typical cycling facilities. But in a few cases, such tunnels provide an important cycling connection. We start a new mini-series with...

08 Mar, 2019

The planned F15 cycle highway in the Netherlands shows that the costs of cycling infrastructure can be reduced as much as three times by integrating it in the d...

06 Mar, 2019
wider cycle paths

Between 2008 and 2016 the number of cars driving across Dronning Louises Bro in Copenhagen dropped by nearly 60%. But the total number of people using the bridg...

06 Nov, 2018

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