Even on physically segregated cycle infrastructure, cyclists still need to interact with motorised vehicles on crossings. Poorly designed crossings that are con...This report details a comprehensive factsheet on at-grade, uncontrolled crossings, between cycle traffic on a cycle track and lateral motorised traffic.
Stops and interruptions are critical quality aspects of a cycle route. On a typical bicycle, cycling stably without excessive effort requires maintaining a spee...This report provides quality parameters for cycle infrastructure: interruptions and delays
Longitudinal slopes affect cycling in two ways. Uphill cycling requires additional effort, which might be discouraging or prohibitive for some users (less fit,...This report provides quality parameters for cycle infrastructure: longitudinal gradients
POLIS, ECF, and CIE host a joint breakfast session to discuss the future of cycling in cities and regions.
COP28 will convene in the UAE in November 2023. COP28 UAE brings the world together at a critical moment for global transformative climate action...
Another World Car-Free Day is behind us, and the experience showed how streets can be a beautiful place when filled with walkers, runners and cyclists instead o...On Car Free Day 2023, usually traffic-clogged avenues and streets became places of leisure and play, as cars gave way for people. In Belgium, more than 40 towns turned th...
The annual flagship event of ECF, Velo-city, the world cycling summit, is where advocates, cities, decision and policy makers, researchers and industry lea...
This year, from 11-13 October, the EuroVelo & Cycling Tourism Conference 2023 embraced the theme “Cycling: a new perspective on heritage.” Hosted in the bea...With exciting announcements and commitments, lively discussions and a picturesque conference dinner, our flagship EuroVelo & Cycling Tourism Conference 2023 was an in...
The seven civil society organisations included on the letter are: BEUC - the European Consumer Organisation Eurocities European Cyclists’ Fed...ECF has co-signed a letter calling for the Commission to close legal loopholes in European and national legislation that permit US-style pickup trucks to enter...
Today, with one in eight people in the world living with a mental health disorder, the significance of mental health cannot be overstated. World Mental Health D...Today marks World Mental Health Day 2023, and the theme for this year ‘Mental health is a universal human right’. The message is as timeless and simple as the remedy itse...
The European Cycling Declaration proposal is the Commission’s most ambitious initiative on cycling to date. It elevates cycling to a strategic priority and ackn...ECF and its members and networks and cycling associations CIE and CONEBI enthusiastically welcomed the European Commission’s joint proposal European Declaration on C...
Cycling advocacy associations the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF), Cycling Industries Europe (CIE), and the Confederation of the European Bicycle Industry (CONEB...