📣 DEADLINE 2nd MARCH 2025 📣 The Urban Cycling Institute is excited to launch its scholarship fund for Velo-city conference, Gdansk 2025 to advance #socialjustice and amplify the research, knowledge, and excellence of marginalized communities at international cycling conferences. The fund prioritises applicants from the Global South as well as underrepresented communities, including but not limited to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), LGBTQ+ The scholarship will be granted to those with accepted abstracts and cover travel, accommodation, and registration costs. The scholarship deadline is 2nd March 2025 We are thankful to have ZICLA back our efforts through their generous support! To know more about the scholarship and for related questions visit: https://lnkd.in/evEidvRB Bárbara Oliveira Soares Carly Gilbert-PatrickOLUMIDE Oladoyin Deema Aburizik Desmond Lartey Inah Okon Teresia Karimi Charles T. Brown, MPA, CPD Scott Bricker Caz Conneller Adnan Hassan (ex-World Bank Group Board of Dir., Adv.) Zvi Leve, MSc Mohammad Nazarpoor Rod Fletcher Keisha Alena Mayuga Ana R. George Liu PhD Olatunji Oboi Reed Niamh Ni Hoireabhaird Bronwen Thornton Angela Francke Ruth Bravery Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Heba Attia Mousa Tamika L. Butler, Esq. Jullietta Jung Jill Warren Kevin Mayne Kyle Wagenschutz Clara Campos Alberdi Marco Te Brömmelstroet Paloma Leé Chuquín Isabel Scherer Ömür Kaygısız Winnie Sambu Juliana DeCastro Inês Sarti Pascoal Harriet Omondi Diego Dávila Graf
Urban Cycling Institute
Non-profitorganisaties
Amsterdam, North Holland 36.650 volgers
Research | Higher education | Professional Development | Bringing cycling knowledge from science to practice and back
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Our Mission: 1) Taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the intricate web of causes and effects of urban cycling. 2) Balancing a critical academic stance with a pragmatic practice-oriented approach of developing and disseminating knowledge 3) Providing a fertile ground for sharing knowledge and learning about urban cycling on all levels of the academic curriculum Main Contributors: Marco te Brömmelstroet, George Liu, Kevin Posey
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- Non-profitorganisaties
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- 2-10 medewerkers
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- Amsterdam, North Holland
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- 2014
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- cycling, infrastructure, education, research, mobility, transportation, sustainability, Netherlands, Dutch, bike lanes, urban design en planning
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🧮 Basic street math: Bicycle parking is not the problem, but a fundamental part of the solution.
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What’s the most outrageous thing you’ve ever seen a politician do to stop a #bike project? Let us know in the comments.
🤨We’ve all heard #bike lane opponents make up stuff to stop a project, but this one is really wild. The vice mayor of the City of Alexandria, Virginia was apparently caught fibbing that a #realestate developer opposed a project in the city’s West End. Unfortunately for her, the developer denied any such opposition and said that they did not even speak with her. 🧐 The resulting exchanges between those on the dais were pretty entertaining. At least, they read as being more fun than anything I ever got to see during my time in Alexandria. 🫤 https://lnkd.in/e6iudgmr
Developer denies opposition to Van Dorn Street changes cited during heated City Council debate | ALXnow
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✅More car lanes= more congestion. ✅Fewer car lanes= less congestion. 😑We’ve known this for awhile-> https://lnkd.in/g2QRcNPf 🎥👀See the full video on #Toronto here-> https://lnkd.in/e89r7k-B
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Must have been a bike lane somewhere that caused this...
1970s:🚘 👨💼: 'One more lane will fix it!' 1980s:🚘🚘 👨💼: 'One more lane will fix it!' 1990s:🚘🚘🚘 👨🔬: 'One more lane will fix it!' 2000s:🚘🚘🚘🚘 👨🔬: 'One more lane will fix it!' 2010s:🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘 👨🔬: 'One more lane will fix it!' 2020s:🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘 👩: '🚘+ 🚍 + 🚲 + 🌳 + 🏙 '
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😑Today in completely unsurprising news: “‘If you ask the public,’ he said, ‘people say traffic is worse and that (the express lane project) was a waste of money.’” Adding toll lanes to #highways has the same impact as adding regular lanes: it induces demand. #Planning agencies market them as a way to relieve congestion, but any relief disappears within roughly three years. That is what has happened in this case, only it took a mere 1.5 years.🤦🏻♂️ Now the San Mateo County Transportation Authority, which is responsible for this project, finds itself accused of spending large sums on a project that made things worse for motorists. 🙄 Paywall👉 https://lnkd.in/em7tXpRw Apple News👉 https://lnkd.in/eXCm46v9
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🤯😬#Planning officials in Giza, #Egypt have given us all fuel for our nightmares. Imagine living in one of these residential towers when traffic clogs up, as it inevitably will. What were they thinking? Did the country’s #transportation officials step out of time machine from the 1950s? 🧐 Unsurprisingly, this image first appeared on #reddit’s r/UrbanHell.🌆👿 Read more👉 https://lnkd.in/eMaz8Ww4
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“…Waze’s Driver Satisfaction Index—which analyzes the experiences of 65 million users in 38 countries and 235 cities—regularly names The Netherlands the most pleasant place in the world to drive…” Remember that the next time someone claims that #infrastructure for #bikes will make traffic worse. The evidence shows otherwise.
Conventional wisdom thinks of car traffic as a liquid, where adding capacity (ie. width) keeps it flowing. But in reality it acts more like a gas, where it expands to fill the amount of space available. And the only proven way to relieve congestion is to evaporate some of it... Case in point: The Netherlands boasts a 150,000 km network of high-quality bike infrastructure in a 41,500 km² country, with 24 million bicycles for 18 million residents—who now make a quarter of their daily trips by pedal power. Sounds like a driver’s worst nightmare doesn’t it? But Waze’s Driver Satisfaction Index—which analyzes the experiences of 65 million users in 38 countries and 235 cities—regularly names The Netherlands the most pleasant place in the world to drive, specifically referencing its “smooth traffic conditions” and “solid road quality”. It is somewhat counterintuitive, but a key ingredient in creating the world’s most satisfied drivers is providing the freedom to leave the car at home; offering the ability to walk or cycle for short trips, tram or bus for longer ones, and fast, frequent rail for intercity trips. With fewer motorists clogging up roads, precious space is freed up for those who still want or need to drive, particularly freight and emergency vehicles. In addition to reducing traffic congestion, this decreases the need for maintenance due to wear-and-tear. A textbook win-win! While some cynically point to bike lanes as a source of congestion, they are paradoxically part of the solution. Cities address overcrowded road space not by producing more of it, but utilizing it more efficiently—enabling alternatives for those who want to get out of their cars. Replacing a nominal number of car trips during peak periods by offering choices is a far more effective and economical strategy than perpetuating the vicious circle of adding road capacity; something that only induces more driving and moves bottlenecks to other parts of the city. After all, to quote former City of Vancouver Chief Planner Brent Toderian: “If you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-modal city that prioritizes walking, biking, and public transport, it works for everyone, including drivers”.
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#Overtourism is a crisis in many spots around the world. Throw extreme car-dependency into the mix and you get a gridlock that sucks all of the joy from the #travel experience. Such is the case in the US state of #Vermont and the mountains of #Virginia, where fall colors induce motorists to come and pollute forests with their #fossilfuel-powered #cars and #SUVs. Paywall (maybe) 👉https://wapo.st/3Yblxc0 MSN link👉https://lnkd.in/ecXHsc9s
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In this week’s #cycling roundup, we look at the #bicycle as: 👉 A tool for social and cultural identities 🚴🏽♀️ 👉 A holistic mobility innovation 🚴🏻 👉 As the extension of the human body 🚴🏽♂️ Read more here👉 https://lnkd.in/e274FABB