New European Urban Mobility Framework is a Win for Urban Cycling
The European Commission’s new Urban Mobility Framework, presented in December, is a huge opportunity for EU cities to move away from polluting, congestion-prone motorised traffic towards greener, more sustainable modes such as cycling. By Philip Amaral, ECF policy and...
The Renaissance of Hungarian Night Trains
In 2019, MAV-START, the passenger transport subsidiary of the Hungarian state railway company (MAV), decided to modernise its night train services, offering a range of destinations and onboard catering. Established as a renewed directorate focusing on providing these...
Bike Lanes Made of Solar Panels. Really!
Cycling is already one of the most sustainable methods of getting from A to B that there is. But one municipality in the Netherlands decided to take that a step further when, in 2015, it built a bike path that actually generates energy. Engineers in Krommenie, about...
Buenos Aires’s Two-Wheeled Revolution
Buenos Aires, capital and largest city of Argentina, has a population of almost 3 million inhabitants spread over 200 km2 and 48 neighborhoods, which are grouped into 15 ‘comunas’. With a well-structured and mature transportation network, composed of urban and...
VVE: Towards an Eco-mobility City
by Aurore Fabre-Landry, Sustainable Mobilities and Julien Solé, L’Arbre-Mobile “Vve – Vers une ville écomobile” or “Towards an Eco-mobility City” is an online self-diagnosis tool for local authorities in France. Launched in April 2020, thanks...
Infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS): Filling the Gaps in the Micromobility Industry
By Sebnem Tugce Pala, Policy Advisor at DUCKT Mobility After years of expanding the French capital’s network of bike paths, city officials in Paris turned an additional 50 kilometres (31 miles) of traffic lanes used by cars over to active mobility users during...
The Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab, Helsinki’s Testbed for Innovation in Urban Mobility
Image credit: Forum Virium Helsinki By Juho Kostiainen, Coordinator of the Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab City Voices is a new Urban Mobility Weekly initiative highlighting the work that our city partners are doing to improve and advance the mobility landscape for their...
Innovation and Digital Technologies Boost Cycling Culture
By Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Bicycles communicating with vehicles as automation rolls out across the road. Smart cities building insights on traffic flows to plan better cycling infrastructure. Information in the hands – and on the handlebars –...
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