According to a survey carried-out by NPR, bicycle sales outpaced new car sales in almost every European country in 2012. For instance, 3.9 million bicycles and 3.1 million new cars were sold last year in Germany, the largest vehicles market in Europe. The…
The latest short film produced by Streetfilms is dedicated to Groningen, a 190,000 inhabitant city located in the north of the Netherlands, where 50% of peoples' trips are made by bicycle.This impressive figure, which even reaches 60% in downtown…
Created in 1995, Copenhagen's bike-sharing sytem "City Bikes" closed last year but a new system called "Cykel DK" should be launched to replace it next October. The forthcoming bikes will feature an Android Tablet offering a GPS guidance system with real…
JCDecaux Lithunia launches Cyclocity Vilnius
To solve the lack of parking places for bicycles in Japanese cities, engineering company Giken Seisakusho Co. LTD set up in Tokyo an automated underground storage solution called "Eco Cycle".To use it, riders must first subscribe to a dedicated service…
Starting in July, helmet vending machines will be set up at several bike sharing stations in Boston, as part of an experiment launched by the City in partnership with Helmethub, a company founded by former students from the MIT.These vending machines can…
Copenhagenize, a Danish consulting, communication and design agency that focuses on urban biking practice , recently released the second edition of its “Bicycle Friendly Cities Index“. To establish this ranking, 150 cities around the world were analyzed…
After the campaign in Copenhagen spotted a few weeks ago on Mobility&Trends, here is another initiative aiming at encouraging people to wear bicycle helmets.The Swiss Council for Accident Prevention partnered with ad agency Wirz to launch a campaign…
As part of the 2013 International Forum Design awards, a group of students from the Korean University of Hyupsung imagined a bike rack prototype using sidewalk' fences.The system is based on vertical inclinable fences whose slots let users park their…
As part of the "Designday" organized in Auckland (New Zealand) by Urbis Magazine, a giant outdoor installation composed of hundreds of colored bicycle models was set up on an unused motorway off-ramp.Created by paint company Resene and architecture agency…
Founded in 1987 and held every spring in Austin, Texas, the "South by Southwest" (SXSW) music, film and interactive festivals have become over the years a major event in the innovation world. The numerous conferences organized during SXSW are a way to…
The powerful "Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club" (General German Bicycle Club) asked its 130,000 members to vote online to choose Germany's most bicycle-friendly city.80.000 answers were submitted and Münster, in North Rhine-Westphalia state, ranks first.
American bike helmets design company Nutcase recently launched an ambient marketing campaign in the streets of Copenhagen aiming to encourage riders to wear helmets.Several fake bicycle signs were set up throughout the city with an actual helmet embedded…
Singapore's bike-sharing operator Isuda recently launched a design competition in partnership with the Bicycledesign.net website. Altogether 13 different projects of bicycles or bicycle stations were submitted by candidates. Among the most interesting and…
As urban cycling has gained popularity in the past decade, this traditionally "standardized" object has seen its status progressively move towards more personalization. As a consequence of the automobile's gradual decline in big cities, bicycles have…
British company Cambridge Consultants is currently testing in Amsterdam a bicycle that can be controlled with a smartphone.Gears are wirelessly connected to the device and can be changed automatically depending on the incline and the rider’s cadence…
The charge cycle project proposes both a funny and healthy way to charge your smartphone in the street.This project imagined by American designers David Krawczyk and Navjot Kaur consists on stationary bikes equipped with an iPhone dock allowing users to…
To solve the problems caused by the lack of parking spaces for bicycles in very dense cities, Korean industrial designer Jung Tak has imagined a system based on compact stations able to store 32 bikes in the equivalent of one car parking place.Each…
Bike sharing systems provide more than 236,000 bicycles around the world, according to Berkeley University’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center’s last estimates.After first developing in Europe, this type of service is spreading out in North…
The BMW Guggenheim Lab team has developed an interactive map of Berlin providing information about the city’s biking network.Users are invited to provide information about their own travels and to rate each street on various criteria, such as topography,…