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Oxford City Council are ready to upgrade their electric vehicle charging infrastructure following a Central Government funding shift with greater emphasis on combating air pollution.

Finland plans to incentivise e-bikes on a large scale: The Ministry of Transport and Communications reports on a government proposal to dedicate €16.3 M of funding for the period July 2018 – December 2021 to support e-bike purchases.

From September 2016, a selection of French public service employees received a cycling kilometre allowance rewarding them for their use of a bicycle on their trip to work, for a trial period.

The Polish government has announced the launch of a “Low Emission Transport fund” with PLN 5 billion (EUR 1.2 billion) funding by 2027 aimed at increasing eco-friendly vehicles on Polish streets on a large-scale.

The “Cooperative Information platform for low carbon and sustainable mobility” (CISMOB) project, funded under the Interreg Europe Programme, recently organised a discussion forum on transport policies and the promotion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for public transport.

The European Commission announced the winners of the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Award 2017 and 6th Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) at a ceremony on 22 March in Brussels (Belgium).

UNDP Georgia has announced a Request for Proposals on behalf of the UNDP-GEF project 'Green Cities: Integrated Sustainable Transport for the City of Batumi and Ajara Region'.

The mayor of Bucharest, Ms Gabriela Firea, announced on Tuesday 13th March that works on the first suspended monorail system in the city will begin in a short delay, as reported by News.ro.

According to the German business newspaper Automobilwoche, Deutsche Telekom has confirmed(link is external) that they will be transforming 12,000 distribution boxes into electric vehicle chargers, more than doubling the nations existing stock of chargers.