Mapping Public Transport Flows

Detail of Greater London, which features the UK's most dense and complex multimodal networks.

Peugeot + Phillipe Starck City Bike

Peugeot have made a huge effort to gain some courier street cred by recruiting world-renowned French product designer Philippe Starck for their provocative city bike design.

'PARK'ing Oostkamp

H + N + S Landscape Architects, in collaboration with Artgineering and ARA, recently won the open call competition for the design and implementation of the commuter parking Oostkamp bear Brugges in Belgium. The proposal "PARK'ING Oostkamp" proposes an innovative concept to make carpooling attractive. The particular landscape location and a sophisticated road system forms the technical basis for the proposal. 

Bankside Bikeshed Winner

Bike Parking | Zaandam, The Netherlands

Nunc Architects have designed a warehouse for parking bicycles in the Netherlands.

Union Station Bike Parking

A nice bicycle parking garage for 1,000 bikes at Union Station in Washington D.C. designed by KGP design studio. Scroll down to see a great Streetfilms video on how the station is managed and some reaction from daily commuters. The structure of the station is inspired by the bicycle itself and represents an interpretation of the bicycle wheel.

BMW presents The New City

This is the first installment from the BMW Documentary Series "Wherever You Want To Go". The series is taking a look at the future of mobility. The series features some of the most influential scientists, academics, pioneers, and entrepreneurs of our time. The four-part documentary paints a unique picture of technology, culture, cities, our past, present and how it all relates to the future of mobility and not a BMW in sight! Go figure.

The Fietsappel

In August of last year, the city of Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands opened the Bicycle Apple, a bicycle parking facility with a capacity of 970 bicycles. The Bicycle Apple is located next to the train station which promotes the culture of intermodality which is so prevalent in the Netherlands. Existing bicycle parking near the station, parking more than 4,000 bicycles, had already reached capacity.

Cycle Parking Lot

Annie Scheel

This is the winning entry to a design competition for bike commuter facilities in Downtown Philadelphia. The all-in-one and masterplan designed by Columbia graduate, Annie Scheel, gives a place in the city for the exploding populations of urban cyclist commuters. The multi-storey bicycle storage facility can hold up to 690 bicycles.

Copenhagen Bicycle Parking

A nice little video featuring bicycle parking in Copenhagen, produced by Copenhagenize.com

toronto bike rack designs materialize

The winning designs of the Ontario College of Art & Design's student bike rack competition have been installed along Queen St. West in Toronto. The jovial comic-book style speech bubble designs celebrate and animate the stationary bike, while reflecting an emerging pride in the city's cycling culture.

London BikeShed Competition

image: leon zhu | dynamic soeul

The Architecture Foundation has launched an international design competition for a portable bike shed at Bankside, south London.

Urban Mobility Beyond the Car

As part of the MaHS/MaUSP programme at KU Leuven, ecourb was involved in a project looking at 'Urban Mobility Beyond the Car'. We decided to create a comic book, in the style of the 'Yes is More' archicomic published last year by BIG. The results of this comic are shown here.

Peak Travel

A new study of trend in passenger transport in 8 industrialized countries recently published points to the possible existence of peak travel. Historically as GNP rose, so too did travel activity among the population. However, new evidence has come to light that suggests once a certain GNP level is reached, the passenger kilometers travelled per year per capita stagnates and in some instances, begins to fall. This prediction is completely at odds with government predictions which point to continuing growth in passenger travel well beyond 2030.

Green Highways?

photo: conor o'brien

Ok, I have to admit, I'm pretty bored at this stage hearing the same thing over and over again about how hydrogen and electric cars are going to change our lives forever. It's not that I'm skeptical, because I'm not, but move on people, these technologies need to be mainstreamed. In the meantime we have to fill the gap. How do we make our existing highways into green highways?

Biking Meets Carbon Offsetting

Bike sharing / Carbon Offsetting can be the future according to this nice little ditt from CityRyde Inspire. B-Cycle in the United States is already implementing the first generation of smart bikes which can track your carbon offsets from an on-board computer. I love the way they say European-style bike sharing scheme! Come on guys, we got ourselves a stat lovin'American-style bike sharing scheme on the cards here. Nice work Denver.

Amsterdam Street Art

Thanks Pim for sharing this photo with the world!

New Bicycle Path, LISBOA

© João Silveira Ramos

Here is a wonderful project with the promotion of urban cycling at its core, while at the same time improving the quality of urban space along the river banks of the Tagus in Lisboa. The remarkable thing about this project is the minimal interventions used, no expensive paving here, just a really nice graphic language deployed onto urban surfaces. I can't help but be reminded on Caruso St. John's wonderful Bankside Directional Signage System in London. Simple, Everyday Urbanism.

Speed Camera Lottery

Who knew reducing speed in urban areas, and consequently improving the quality of the urban environment could be, well, fun?

History of Cycle Paths in the Netherlands

Interesting video detailing the evolution of Cycle Paths in the Netherlands.

More info: A view from a Cycle Path