From September 7-10, the cities of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville will host the 2022 NACTO Designing Cities conference. This is the tenth conference of its kind, bringing together nearly 1,000 officials, planners, and practitioners to improve the state of...
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What is tactical transit and which cities are applying it.
Tactical transit is derived from tactical Urbanism, idea whereby a local movement of citizens improves the environment by using non-permanent methods in order to develop a new style of life. These citizens do this kind of initiatives because they consider that it's...
Winter is coming to protected bike lanes.
Winter is on our doorstep and cities are preparing themselves for the challenges ahead in the cold season of the year. As cities look to redesign their streets to provide more safe mobility and transportation options, new maintenance and operations challenges and...
EU Green Week 2018.
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...
These are the 10 cities with the best public transport. Get to know them!
With some 80% of all wealth concentrated in cities and with an urban population constituting the majority of the world's people, cities are the hubs of human activity. But, why is it important to develop sustainable form of transport? We're going to explain it....
Urban Mobility Lessons for Cities of the Future.
A good city has to have a reliable transport system. With growing population and increasing consumer requirements, it is important that city authorities get their act together and devise plans that smartly tackle such demands. In other words, designing transport...
Bicycle Maintenance.
If you own a bicycle it is vital that you know how to treat it and keep it good in order to use it. So, we know that to run a bike you do not only need the power of our legs, there’s also other important things such as lubrication and a lot of love. Maybe you do not...