2022: The Year of the Bicycle
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen shifts in how and where people travel. The low vehicle volumes due to initial...
How Cycling Powers People and Economies
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Riding Into A New Urban Agenda
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Protected Cycle Lane Networks Can Make a Big Impact on Climate Change
Amongst cities in middle-income countries, Bogotá, Colombia and Guangzhou, China are two that may seem to be vastly different. Nevertheless, both cities are united...
Cycling Is Booming and Not Just Where You Think
For many years, cycling has been overlooked as a viable transportation option outside of a few European cities. However, this perspective is finally starting...
Building Cycling Cities in Rio de Janeiro and Recife, Brazil
Brazil’s cities, like Rio de Janeiro and Recife, have long been faced with unequal patterns of urban development and sprawl that have made mobility...
Mexico’s Ideamos Program Shows Bicycles Are Moving More than People
For decades people in cities around the world have been using bicycles for so much more than passenger travel. Since the start of the...
Cycling’s Gender Gap: Breaking The Cycle of Inequality
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Mexico’s Ideamos Program Shows Bicycles Are Moving More than People
For decades people in cities around the world have been using bicycles for so much more than passenger travel. Since the start of the...
Exploring the Cycling Gender Gap in China’s Cities
We know that there persists a gender gap in cycling that prevents women and girls from choosing cycling as a primary transport mode in...
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