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What barriers exist? TEN-T infrastructure, particularly motorways, railways and inland waterways, causes land fragmentation. Without specific facilities – brid...Large transport infrastructure, from highways to railways, often creates barriers for non-motorised modes of transport, particularly cyclists. This phenomenon, known as t...

29 Oct, 2024

TEN-T is the EU's primary network of roads, railways, inland waterways, ports, maritime shipping routes, airports and multimodal terminals. With the revision of...Last week, the European Parliament voted to adopt the revision of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) guidelines. For the first time, the promotion of active mod...

02 May, 2024

On 5 December 2022, the Council of the EU adopted its “general approach” for the revision of the TEN-T guidelines. On 13 April 2023, the European Parliament agr...On 5 December 2022, the Council of the EU adopted its “general approach” for the revision of the TEN-T guidelines. On 13 April 2023, the European Parliament agreed on its...

16 May, 2023

The Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) of the European Parliament adopted today, 13 April 2023, its report on the new TEN-T guidelines. The final wo...In its new report on the Trans-European transport network (TEN-T), the European Parliament's Transport Committee has said that major EU transport investments sh...

13 Apr, 2023

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.

26 Jan, 2023

The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is the EU's primary network of roads, railway lines, inland waterways, ports and airports. Currently, the...ECF takes a look at recent developments within the Council of the EU and the European Parliament to analyse the progress being made in getting cycling and EuroVelo includ...

12 Dec, 2022

The F11 cycle highway connects Antwerp (520,000 inhabitants) and Lier (36,000 inhabitants) in Belgium. As many other Flemish cycle highways, this 12 km route is...ECF takes a look at the F11 cycle highway bridge over a TEN-T railway in Belgium as an example of EU funding being well spent. Costing just over than €2 million, the...

10 Nov, 2022

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

Italian-British couple, Arianna Casiraghi and Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope, along with their dog Zola, cycled 7,237 km to draw a huge shape of a bicycle across the m...Cycling couple break three world records for largest GPS drawing, aiming to raise awareness for cycling's effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and to build politica...

23 Aug, 2022

On 21 November 1997, EuroVelo, the European cycle route network, was launched in Logroño, Spain. Back then the EuroVelo initiative was a mere vision of a dream...ECF is proud to announce that 25 years after its inauguration, a much-requested feature has been unveiled by the EuroVelo Management Team. New downloadable GPX tracks wil...

02 Aug, 2022

Amidst record breaking heatwaves, and mounting pressure to address transportation issues. We have been working hard to convince EU decision-makers of the need...ECF has been spending recent weeks pushing for cycling to play a greater role in Europe. The bicycle’s link to European transport policy and the flagship TEN-T network ha...

01 Aug, 2022

Green MEP and chair of the TRAN (Transport) committee of the European Parliament, Karima Delli, teased a major announcement on an EU-wide cycling declaration an...Momentum for a pan-European cycling plan builds as EU Commission and Parliament officials, speaking at two separate transport events, announce support for a pan-European...

08 Jul, 2022

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