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Velo-city Roundup Day 4: European Session, Public Transport, and Closing Highlights
As Velo-city is drawing to a close there were once more events to watch. High-level European guests addressed the challenges ahead for cycling in the European Union while the International Association for Public Transport discussed with guests how to integrate cycling better into cities’ transport schemes. We also have some highlights from the closing session. More
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Europe wants to double cycling but is not sure how
Last plenary of this Velo-city conference is on “Mobility Policies & Cycling in the European Union and its Member States”, chaired by ECF Secretary General Bernhard Enisnk. Speakers were Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for transport, two Members of European Parliament Mathieu Grosch (EPP) and Michael Cramer (Greens) and two Presidents of More
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Velo-city Day 3 Roundup: Cycle Logistics, B-Track-B, and What the Industry Can Do
Discuss, inspire and share ideas on cycling: that’s what Velo-city Vienna is still about after its third day. On Thursday, the focus was on motivationg cyclists to ride their bikes more often and transport goods with them, as well as the next Velo-city conference in Adelaide. We also have some highlights from the speeches by More
Velo-city Day 2 Roundup: EuroVelo, Mayors and E-Bikes
Velo-city is in full swing and Vienna is buzzing with bicycles as experts from all around the world continued to discuss all things cycling. On Wednesday, the spotlight was on Mayors trying to make cities cycling-friendly, the EuroVelo network, and E-bikes. Mayors – Cycling is a City Changer EuroVelo – The Future of Cycling Tourism More
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Helmond (Netherlands) joins BTrackB!
News Flash Helmond is the first Dutch city to join BTrackB! Together the city and the project focus to encourage cycling in families with young children. Specially a 10% increase in cycling for leisure. Overall goals include reduction of CO2 emissions and saving 14 million liters of fuel. Focus of BTrackB is to increase cycling More
Velo-city Day 1 Roundup: Tuesday, 11 June
It’s time to talk about cycling again! Velo-city 2013 was kicked of today with a speech by ECF president Manfred Neun. Other highlights included the opening session with speeches by the Mayor of Vienna and the Austrian Federal Transport and Environment ministers, the World Health organization in attendance, ECF’s 6 billion Euro campaign. Here’s our More
Velo-city Pre-Meetings Roundup: Monday, 10 June
Just ahead of Velo-city 2013 in Vienna, ECF’s networks already began to meet to discuss the challenges ahead. As a warm-up for Velo-city, here’s an overview on what happened today along with some highlights of tomorrow’s opening day at the conference. Scientists for Cycling – The Science Behind Doubling Cycling in Europe Cities for Cycling More
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BTrackB presented at ECF’s AGM meeting
Today (9th of June 2013) BTrackB was presented at the Annual general Membership meeting of the European Cyclists Federation in Bratishlava. The advantages to discuss the possibilities the programme offers become clear when presenting it to cycling advocates from different countries. After the presentation of BtrackB at the AGM the following issues came up in More
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- 04.06.2013
The first EU wide ECF Cycling Barometer launched
June 4, 2013-Brussels The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) is using the run up to next week’s Velo-city 2013, its international cycling conference in Vienna, to launch a groundbreaking new benchmarking report which provides a multi-dimensional view on cycling in all 27 EU countries. Remarkably Netherlands and Denmark were inseparable at the top of the table More
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- 03.06.2013
European Institutions agree on TEN-T regulations and EuroVelo is in!
After a successful campaign last December, we managed to get the European Parliament to vote in favour of EuroVelo being mentioned into the biggest EU transport infrastructure program. Last week this proposition was validated by the other EU institutions. Last week it was announced that an agreement had been reached between the three main European More
