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The registrations for the final project BooST Conference, “Boosting Starter Cycling Cities”, are now open. The event will take place on July 1st 2021.

The third event in the Conference Cycle "Support Tools for Cycling Strategies" will occur on February 9th 2021, between 14:30 and 15:30. It will be transmitted online on the project's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/BooSTBoostingStarterCyclingCities). Registrations can be made on this link: https://inqueritos.up.pt/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=996454&lang=pt.

January 26th will initiate the Conference Cycle "Support Tools for Cycling Strategies", organized by BooST. The first event will present the Gross Potential for Cycling. The event will take place on January 26th, 2021, between 14:30 and 15:30. It will be transmitted online on the project's facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/BooSTBoostingStarterCyclingCities). Registrations can be made on this link: https://inqueritos.up.pt/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=996454&lang=pt

The Velo-city 2021 Lisboa Call for Abstracts is open until 20 November! It invite all academics and researchers to share their insights, experiences, projects and research on #CycleDiversity with a global audience of cycling experts

Survey targeting the users of the Lisbon bike sharing system (GIRA).

Next monday , July 13th, at 15:00, we'll have Cristina Nieto Guimarães Pimentel, Deputy Mayor for Mobility at Porto Municipality, and Alvaro Fernandez Heredia, Administrator of Autobuses Urbanos de Valladolid SA (Auvasa). The conversation will be transmitted online at https://www.facebook.com/mobilidadeurbanaposcovid19/. This is an initiative organized by project BooST and L3P.

The project was presented on Bicicultura podcast, a program about bicycle use, public space and society.

In responde to post-pandemic needs, Lisbon will introduce more cycleways and bicycle parking, reduce motorized vehicle speed and launch a support program for bicycle purchase.

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By order of 12/11/2019, the Dean of FEUP, Professor João Bernardo de Sena Esteves Falcão e Cunha, deliberated to open...

More than 20 public libraries across the U.S. have introduced special bike-share programmes, in which members take out bicycles from the library for free before returning them at the end of the day. The initiative is part of a trend where renting a bike to get around town is just as easy as borrowing a book.

New York to design a 58.4 million $ plan that aims to increase cycling infrastructure and safety throughout the city.

Local authorities in Amsterdam announced plans to eliminate 10.000 parking spaces. A new short film by StreetFilms documents how the process has been well received, without anyone complaining, making the city even more bike-friendly and giving the streets back to people and communities.

Project BooST will be presented at the XVI Iberian Congress on the "Bicycle and the City" in Cascais, which will debate the role of cycling for "Better Communities, Better Accessibilities, Better Environment and Health; Better Economy and Tourism".

The National Strategy for Active Mobility in Portugal has been presented, in which the Portuguese Government affirms its commitment to active mobility and, in particular, to cycling, with the motto "a proudly active country." In 2011, only 0.5% of commuting trips were made by bicycle; the objective is that by 2030 they reach 7.5%, thus catching-up the European average. The Strategy includes a participatory process, and has already started a first phase of public discussion.

A pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion will be published in the autumn of 2019. The aspiration of the Plan is to double the amount of cycling in the pan-European region, which consists of the 54 countries. For many of these countries, the guidance will be the first step in promoting cycling at the national level.

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) has produced guidance to support the design and implementation of cycling projects in the Member States. This new guidance builds on the existing city and national-level information to provide a coherent and ‘universal’ set of guidelines that will be relevant to a range of different cities and environments. Águeda in Portugal represents a starter city within the guidance. The DG MOVE guidance recognises that a one-size-fits-all approach is ineffective, as key contextual factors – such as the existing level of cycling, city size, location and current level of cycling within a city – can affect the success of cycling measures. To account for city-level variation, the guidance draws on 20 unique case studies of cities with different characteristics, ranging from starter cities, with minimal cycling infrastructure, to champion cities, where cycling is instilled in the everyday culture of the city.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to realize the human rights of all. Cycling is already delivering on these goals worldwide, contributing to almost all of the 17 SDGs, and this is a good reason to invest more in cycling. Making transportation more sustainable is of critical importance for humanity and the planet. Moreover, active mobility is a human right on all scales – including the right to cycle. Governments at all levels should provide safe access to public space, protect those that walk and cycle, and ensure – through mobility – equal participation in society.

The Portuguese Municipality of Braga has partnered with the Spanish City of Pontevedra in developing a Mobility and Traffic Management Study. This study will be an instrument that will establish a global strategy for intervention in accessibility and mobility management, and will define a set of actions and measures that contribute to the implementation of a more sustainable model, focussing on economic development, greater social cohesion and ensuring environmental protection and energy efficiency.

[Notice in Portuguese] O projeto BooST – Impulsionar a Bicicleta em Cidades Principiantes, referência POCI-01-0145-FEDER- 031479, financiado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento...

Em 2016, era líder do ranking europeu de exportação de bicicletas; em 2017, caiu para o segundo lugar: ainda assim, Portugal tem a maior fábrica de montagem da Europa. Mas "o mercado [nacional] é pequeno e pedala pouco". O que falta?

In September 2018, within the scope of the European Mobility Week, the European Commission has launched its Social Biking challenge across Europe....

For generations, Danish urban planners have made it a priority for children to be able to ride to school alone. The result is not just more social, cheerful, healthy children – but more social, cheerful, healthy adults.

App with points scheme allows the population of Bologna to exchange bicycle trips for free stuff, such as ice-creams, beer or cinema tickets...

Lessons from the Dutch, where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people, providing us with examples for creating an accessible urban cycling culture and exploring how those examples have inspired other cities around the world.

Next Workshop “UNESCO sites and Greenways, a common destination” on the 29th November in the beautiful Historic centre of Guimarães,...

Winter can be a tough time for even the most hardened cyclist. Dark mornings and evenings coupled with cold, wet,...

This November, two European cities are hosting the Bicycle Film Festival, that takes place in Madrid on 15-18 November and London shortly after...

[Fonte: European Parliamentary Research Service Blog, 11 Nov 2019] With European elections coming up in May 2019, you probably want...

Project BooST will be presented at the first Annual Meeting of the Cycling Research Board (CRB) in Amsterdam, organized by the Dutch...

In the last years, there has been a growing importance of cycling in the political arena. Pushed by the agenda...