During the last months, four European countries have introduced tax breaks for cycling to work or extended existing ones: France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy....
Every year, cycling in 28 EU Member States (MSs) creates economic benefits of 513 billion €, that is more than 1000€ per inhabitant! These findings were calcula...
After the successful edition in Taipei in February, more than 120 academics from 11 countries all over the world came to Aveiro in Portugal from 17 to 18 Novemb...
Liveable cities are economically successful, and cyclists are good customers – more and more local businesses in Europe understand this link and work together w...
Success for German ECF member ADFC: For the first time in history, the government has included cycle highways in the new Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan a...
The report, which will be published in full later this year, is an updated version of an earlier study from 2014. It bases its estimates on data collected from...From 8 to 10 June, environment ministers and state secretaries from the pan-European region, including Russia and Central Asia, met in Batumi, Georgia, to discuss the way...
ECF was invited by the TRA Programme Committee to organise a session on cycling research. Moderated by ECF Secretary General Bernhard Ensink, the session featur...The Transport Research Arena (TRA), Europe’s largest research conference on transport, was organised in Warsaw from 18 to 21 April this year. Compared to previous edition...
With over 100 billion EUR, congestion costs European cities over 1% of the EU GDP per year. Looking for a solution, ECF studied the implementation of congestio...
On 27 April, the German federal government decided to launch a huge subsidy package for electric cars worth almost 1 billion euros over the next years. Besides...On 27 April, the German federal government decided to launch a huge subsidy package for electric cars worth almost 1 billion euros over the next years. Besides a buyer’s...
Promoting cycling within cities can generate significant revenue gains for local businesses. According to a new study by ECF, European cyclists spend an impress...
On 27 September, Ségolène Royal, the French Minister for the Environment, confirmed in a radio interview that a kilometric reimbursement scheme for employees cy...
In the beginning of November, ECF participated in the 5th International Conference „Towards a Humane City“ in Novi Sad, Serbia. The event brought together rese...