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E-Bike control panel

Four hundred committed car users in Halmstad, Sweden, got the opportunity to borrow an electric bike for a period of time during 2014 and 2015 through the municipality. Together, they cycled more than 180 000 km, and helped the city to avoid a lot of emissions, noise and traffic jams.

A man riding a Graphic bike

The traffic and urban planning approach in North Rhine-Westphalia, which has been orientated towards car use throughout the last decades, has reached its limits.  New mobility solutions and strategies are required to promote economic development and improve quality of life

Articulated bus on the cobbled streets of Nantes

Following the end of the European COMPRO project, the French cities of Nantes and Angers decided to jointly purchase several articulated hybrid buses. The cities together drafted common technical specifications and officially published the procurement tender in June 2011.

Man on a bike riding through a park

Company bicycles used by employees to travel to work or during service trips are growing in popularity in Belgium. However, many employers still don’t know how to go about introducing such schemes into their businesses.

Two children studying tablets

Within the PUMAS project, the City of Venice has developed a comprehensive strategy in order to make sustainable mobility an essential element of its urban and educational policy.
Its 'shared sustainable school mobility plan' includes the active involvement of parents and pupils

SUIG BRT/LRT Route Option 2

This video introduces an eye-in-the-sky augmented reality presentation of the actual geography of Galway City and where the best-fit sustainable transport solution can be plotted using Bus Rapid Transit or Light Rail Rapid Transit.

An E-Bike equipped with bags for transportation

In July 2014 the EU-funded Pro-E-Bike project helped Croatia’s national postal service Hrvatska pošta (Croatian Post) to test electric bikes as a way for it to deliver letters and small packages using cleaner and more energy-efficient vehicles.