On 16 February 2023, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on developing an EU cycling strategy. The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) worked hard...The European Parliament's new resolution aims to double cycling in Europe by 2030, calling for an EU cycling strategy to achieve this. ECF explains why this is such a sig...
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg intends to play a pioneering role in the mobility transition, on a local, national, and international level. In the comin...ECF welcomes the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to Cities & Regions for Cyclists, a network that brings together local and regional administrations actively promo...
The European Parliament’s Resolution on developing an EU Cycling Strategy tasks the European Commission with doubling the number of kilometres cycled in Europe...The European Parliament has passed a historic resolution calling for the European Commission to develop a European cycling strategy with the aim of doubling the number of...
The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) is delighted to announce that the 2025 edition of Velo-city, its flagship world cycling summit, will be hosted in Gdańsk...The City of Gdańsk, Poland wins bid to host the world cycling summit. This is first time Velo-city will be held in Poland, with the conference set to take place...
Key progress was made on the development of an EU cycling strategy with the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee (TRAN) voting to adopt a resol...MEPs in the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee have voted to adopt a resolution on developing an EU cycling strategy. The resolution calls for a d...
The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is the EU's primary network of roads, railway lines, inland waterways, ports, maritime shipping routes, airports an...ECF highlights good and bad practices from across Europe of where the Trans-European Transport Network interacts with cycling.
Europe is crisscrossed by a network of 17 long distance cycling routes, the EuroVelo network, which will take you and your bike almost all the way to our host c...Thinking about attending Velo-city 2023 Leipzig? Why not make an adventure on two wheels out of it by going by bike? This article will give you some tips on how to get to...
This was a record-breaking year! The Velo-city team received more than 730 abstracts from 46 countries. Choosing between the many excellent submissions has not...The annual world cycling summit reveals its conference programme of seven high-level plenaries and 66 parallel sessions around the theme: Leading the Transition.
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.
On 22 December 2022, the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) published the 2022 edition of the “The state of national cycling strategies” report,...ECF publishes the 2022 edition of the The state of national cycling strategies report. 14 of the 44 countries analysed now have a national cycling str...
How can we use less materials in building construction? How can on-site parking encourage less CO2 transport emissions? How can we stimulate less household ener...ECF provides an end-of-year update on our lobbying efforts to ensure bicycle parking is effectively included in the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Direct...
In 2022 we began to move beyond a world dominated by COVID-19. The shocking invasion of Ukraine with its human tragedies and economic toll, the need to accelera...A new global coalition and campaign, a more prominent role for cycling in European and national policies, progress towards an EU Cycling Strategy and cycling’s essential...