Want to learn more or see Danish bicycle infrastructure with your own eyes? The Cycling Embassy offers presentations on various topics and guided bike tours.
Reelight, a member of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark, won the “red dot: best of the best” award at this year’s Red dot Design Award competition in Essen, Germany.
Find inspiration in the Cycling Embassy of Denmark’s Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012.
ConsiderDenmark has made a nice little video on the our cycling culture.
Have a look at where the members of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark will be represented in the future
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Health plus cities | making cities for people … Our very own, CEO and Founding Partner, Helle Søholt recently appeared at a TED talk in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In her presentation Helle stressed the potential of thinking about cities as solution engines for leading a healthier lifestyle instead of thinking about them as generators of [...]
1 | The 10 Best Biking Cities In America | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation Biking map site BikeScore has released a new ranking of the country’s best cities for biking, accounting for factors like bike lanes, hilliness, route options, and number of commuters. How does your city rank?
Bicycling contributes $400 million to Oregon tourism, new survey says | OregonLive.com Cycling’s not just hip and healthy; it’s becoming big business in Oregon, a new study shows. 'Dutch-style' cycle roundabouts for London tested – BBC News Roundabouts which separate cars from cyclists could be adopted in London next year. Trials of the road layout, [...]
How Bicycles Bring Business – Momentum Mag Increasingly leaders in the public and private sector are realizing that being bike-friendly makes good business sense, boosting the bottom line and promoting community-wide economic development. Bicycling in the United States is a $6 billion national industry and one study estimates that the spillover effects of recreational bicycling [...]
Bike to School Day rides a wave, steers thousands toward health, safety, fun – Welcome to the FastLane: The Official Blog of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Is there a biking equivalent of riding a wave? Because it sure feels like we’ve caught a big one. Today and throughout the month of May, thousands of [...]
JAN GEHL LAUNCHES "CITIES FOR PEOPLE" IN GREEK Jan Gehl, co-founder of Gehl Architects, had accepted an invitation from the Embassy of Denmark in Greece for a two-day “road-show” to promote sustainable city planning and cycling in Greece on the occasion of the publication in Greek of his latest book “Cities for People” (”ανθρώπινες πόλεις”). [...]
Plan B Updates – 112: Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over 500 Cities Worldwide | EPI Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over 500 Cities Worldwide
Copenhagen: My Two Kroner | Christopher Martin – Urban Movement Earlier this month, UM went on a two-day fact-finding Streettour to Copenhagen. As usual, we wanted to see how other people do stuff; and we were particularly keen to experience how the city has dealt with providing for cycling on complex urban streets. European Cyclists' [...]
A summer without city bikes – News in English Company contracted to produce city bikes switches manufacturer at late stage but says all 1,260 bikes will be on the streets before the end of 2013 Copenhagen is under pressure to deliver the city bikes it promised would be available…
Bike sharing goes global | Grist Politicians, lobbyists, and tourists alike can ride bicycles along a specially marked lane between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, part of the 115 miles of bicycle lanes and paths that now crisscross Washington, D.C. In Copenhagen, commuters can ride to work following a “green wave” of signal [...]
Bicycles are saving lives in Africa | TheCityFix In the African nation of Uganda, where many areas are difficult to access and have limited resources, bicycles are saving lives. Bicycle ambulances, modified to pull a covered stretcher in back, allow an individual experiencing a medical emergency — and even pregnant women — to be transported [...]
Copenhagen-izing yourself In Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden and Norway, arguably also Iceland and Finland), Copenhagen has been named Bike City for four years in a row. The city’s bike culture developed through the whole of the 20th century, but not surprisingly, it was in the early ’70s during the oil crisis when Copenhageners voted to make [...]
BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Inspired by Copenhagen, League reveals more about 'Diamond' program Portland is one of just three cities in the U.S. to have achieved a Platinum level designation for bike-friendliness from the League of American Bicyclists. Platinum used to be the highest level a city could earn; but now there’s Diamond and [...]
Shannon Galpin Has a Mission, Putting Afghans on Bikes – NYTimes.com In November, Shannon Galpin was riding her single-speed mountain bike through the hills outside Kabul. It was her 11th visit to Afghanistan, and she had grown accustomed to the sight of camel caravans, abandoned Soviet tanks and soldiers sweeping the desert for land mines.
Congestion pushes Chinese on to their bikes – FT.com For decades under communism, owning a private car was an impossible dream in China. Now that the dream has come true for tens of millions of Chinese, they are waking up each day to a life of traffic jams and smog
Copenhagen-style separate cycleways planned | Stuff.co.nz Christchurch’s push to become a premier cycling city is gaining momentum with ambitious plans for separating cyclists and motorists on busy routes.
How can we get more children cycling on the school run? | Sam Haddad | Environment | guardian.co.uk By overcoming parental fears we can have healthier, more confident children and less congested local roads
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The infrastructure is the basic for developing a cycle culture. Most major cities in Denmark do have rather fine facilities for cyclists, even though the cycle net still needs to be extended and improved. The major Danish cities do have like 300 – 500 kilometres of cycle paths each [...]
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The bicycle share in Denmark is 19 % which is the second highest in Europe. After the war cycling dropped to half of the previous level, but since the 1970′ies cycling has increased in mainly the major cities. The bigger a city is the higher share cycling has of [...]
By Erik Bølling-Ladegaard, The Danish Cyclist Federation and Pablo Celis, Celis Counsult Cycling as a means of transport is on the increase in many towns and cities around the world, and further growth in the number of cyclists is expected in the coming years. At the same time, a lot is being done at many [...]
Bicycle infrastructure in Denmark
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The infrastructure is the basic for developing a cycle culture. Most major cities in Denmark do have rather fine facilities for cyclists, even though the cycle net still needs to be extended and improved. The major Danish cities do have like 300 – 500 kilometres of cycle paths each [...]
Bicycling Statistics in Denmark
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S The bicycle share in Denmark is 19 % which is the second highest in Europe. After the war cycling dropped to half of the previous level, but since the 1970′ies cycling has increased in mainly the major cities. The bigger a city is the higher share cycling has of [...]
By Erik Bølling-Ladegaard, The Danish Cyclist Federation and Pablo Celis, Celis Counsult Cycling as a means of transport is on the increase in many towns and cities around the world, and further growth in the number of cyclists is expected in the coming years. At the same time, a lot is being done at many [...]
Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012
The first edition of Collection of Cycle Concepts was published in 2000 and enjoyed a wide circulation among everyone interested in bicycle traffic. The simultaneous publication of the English version spread the Danish bicycle traffic experience to many parts of the world. The second edition, Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012, updates the field, featuring new [...]
Good, Better, Best – The City of Copenhagen’s Bicycle Strategy 2011-2025
In Copenhagen’s new bicycle strategy you can read about the new initiatives and plans, which lay down guidelines for the longterm and overriding priorities within the bicycle area.
It can be hard to determine the exact effect of cycle campaigns, but the tendency in the Danish bicycle culture is clear: In cities that make a systematic effort at promoting cycling, more and more people choose to cycle. There is no doubt that cycle campaigns play a part in this success. This catalogue gives an overview of 14 concrete campaigns, their goals, how they worked in practice, and their results.
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