The Barcelona Metropolitan Area has expanded its bus fleet with electric and hybrid vehicles. Some of these new vehicles are longer than the existing ones. This makes more difficult for the driver to bring the bus to the stop in a way that ensures safe boarding for...
In 2016, the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) began a project called Bicivia, a network of metropolitan bike lanes designed to connect the metropolitan area from north to south and west to east in a fast, safe, direct way. The stretch between Esplugues de...
Alfredo Balmaceda has been interviewed by EcoAP News. Alfredo Balmaceda has worked for over 20 years on environmental sustainability and circular economy issues, well before the terms meant much to the average person. A civil engineer (PhD) and chemical and...
Summer holidays are about to arrive and with them people use to choose the bicycle to move around the city of the place they live in during this period. But this does not mean that the bicycle is only practical for summer, on the contrary, it is a very good option for...
The EU Green Week 2018 began the 21st of May in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and ended the 25th of May in Madrid (Spain). Meanwhile in Brussels, it took place the high level EU Green Cities Summit. During this week, there were discussions about the ways in which the...
The place that car occupies in the cities has an effect on our living space. People that live in big cities such as New York, New Delhi, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Madrid, etc. know that the living space is at the same time a precious and scarce good. That is why it...
The tranquillity of streets in a city and the generation of smoke-free spaces from exhaust fumes is one of the ways to make cities more livable and more friendly. The widespread use of bicycles in the city clearly contributes to the tranquillity but its growing...
Barcelona has 172 kilometers of cycling infrastructure built or in progress that will operate at 100% by the end of the year. The city of Barcelona aims to deploy a complete bicycle infrastructure, connected and in good condition, so that it is useful for all citizens...
Innovation is a key factor for society to advance. In the same way that it is very important to innovate, it is also important to protect those who made the intellectual and economic effort to innovate. Industrial and intellectual development are protected through the...
What do we know about universal accessibility? Universal accessibility means much more than being able to put a wheelchair on the bus or that a vision impaired person can cross a crosswalk because of the beeps that the traffic light emits when it turns green....
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