Many people take advantage of the summer vacation to visit new cities and discover new places in the world. This involves a mass movement of people, often related to increased transport emissions. Motorized transportation methods are not the only ones that allow us to...
From the June 14th to 17th, Ljubljana (Slovenia) will host the 2022 Velo-City conference with the slogan “Cycling the Change”. This year the event is organized by the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) and the City of Ljubljana. Velo-City Conference. Velo-City, the...
The BACC recently published a study aimed at analyzing the use of bike lanes in the city of Barcelona. The study recorded the data at nine bike lane locations in the city, morning and evening, in two rush-hour time slots. Its findings regarding women's use of the...
The lockdown linked to the Covid-19 crisis led to a significant drop in people’s trips around the city. To seize the opportunity to experiment with another vision of urban planning and make more space available for active modes of transport, Cerema (French Center for...
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...
The Park & Ride concept refers to parking lots in the suburbs of the big cities to encourage people to park their vehicles there and go to the city center using public transport, bicycles or car sharing services. These parking lots are usually next to bus or rail...
More and more citizens are agreeing that we need to change our transport habits, but among all these citizens aware of sustainable mobility, there are still discrepancies on how to promote this way of moving around the city; especially when we talk about bicycle as a...
Nowadays, pollution is one of the great challenges cities must combat, even more knowing that by 2050 it is estimated that 70% of the world's population will live in urban areas. That is why cities like Barcelona, Los Angeles, Santiago de Chile, etc. are changing both...