cycling

First Impressions of Copenhagen

Joshua Joseph — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:16:11 +0000

As a Canadian student studying urban planning, I’ve come to realize that our cities face significant challenges that will be difficult to overcome, including urban sprawl, worsening air quality, and a strong ‘car-culture mentality’. One of the largest contributors to these issues is the widespread use of the private automobile. Fortunately, Canada is beginning to realize, as demonstrated in their ambitious plan The Big Move, that our transportation systems need to change.

Budapest: Cyclist numbers double

Anna Esbjørn Hess — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:54:54 +0000

In Budapest, cycling has become a means of transport as well as a leisure pursuit. Cycling accounts for 4% of the city's transport requirements and the number of cyclists is doubling almost year on year. Budapest has long enjoyed a reputation in the region for its strong cycling culture and cycle-friendly city administration, which is doing what it can to encourage cycling. Copenhagenize.com has nominated the Hungarian capital as Eastern Europe's most cycle-friendly city.

Bike-ability: Cities for zero-emission travel and public health

Fredrik Gyllenhoff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:50:17 +0000

Early this January, 13 million Danish kroner was handed over to the project 'Bike-ability: Cities for zero-emission travel and public health' at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The Danish Council for Strategic Research was the happy donator and the research project is a collaboration with 4 different universities and the Danish cancer charity, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, and two other institutions.

Odense: Masterplan for sustainable mobility

Anna Esbjørn Hess — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:29:58 +0000

Under the motto "playing is living" Odense municipality has presented its vision for the coming 10 years. An important link in the long-term strategy is the development of Odense as a sustainable and healthy city, which means that sustainability becomes an integral part of all political decision making. The ambition is to be CO2 neutral in 2025 and the three primary areas that will ensure the fulfilment of that ambition are traffic, energy and construction.

Lyon: An overall vision for transport - Urban Mobility Master Plan

June-Catherina Starling — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:29:53 +0000

In 1997, Greater Lyon adopted an Urban Mobility Master Plan. The objective of the plan was to re-harmonise the distribution of means of travel, to create conditions for a pleasant town containing solidarity and thereby, in turn, favour sustainable mobility. The project for Lyon and its suburbs, and the Mandate Plan – defining the major policy orientations for Greater Lyon up until 2007 – had a budget of 788 million Euros for investments in transport.