These Major Chinese Cities Are Making Moves On Cycling
With the particular increase in cycling during the pandemic, both for daily travel and goods delivery, cities across China had the opportunity to push...
The Lane Ahead: Challenges and Considerations for China’s Cycling Sector
China has had a complex relationship with urban cycling throughout the past few decades. Now, a renewed demand for and interest in urban cycling...
How This Historic City Is Transforming Its Motorists Into Cyclists #WorldBicycleDay
This World Bicycle Day, it is important to share and explore lessons from a city that is making tangible efforts to make cycling safe,...
Creating A ‘Kingdom for Bicycles’ in Yichang, China
Over the past two decades, ITDP China has been working closely with major cities to advance a vision for urban cycling, and implement bicycle...
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...
The Eight Elements of a Cycling City
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored long-standing inequity and unsustainability in how we move around our cities. As more and more urban dwellers chose cycling as...
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...
Explore ITDP’s Learning Hub Courses
ITDP has launched self-guided courses for urban planners, officials, practitioners, and advocates interested in advancing more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable mobility in their cities....
Pedaling On: One Year of ITDP’s Cycling Cities
It has been one year since ITDP unveiled Cycling Cities at the UNFCCC Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, and we are proud to say that...
Pedaling On: Celebrating One Year of ITDP’s Cycling Cities Campaign
It has been one year since ITDP unveiled Cycling Cities at the UNFCCC Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, and we are proud to say that...
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