Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012

500 meters of bicycle parking

Is Copenhagen getting the world’s longest bike rack? No, but they are getting 1,000 new bicycle parking spaces before summer. By Niels Hoé, HOE360 Consulting How to create more bike parking? Insufficient bicycle parking challenges cities across Denmark. This problem will spread to many cities around the world as they work to increase cycling; when [...]

Leaders jump in the saddle to network

Randers has had such great success getting more people to jump on the bike that local business leaders have been inspired to form their own cycling network. Instead of meeting in an office, they hold their meetings in the saddle. By Britt Møller, Municipality of Randers The bicycle network BIKE NETWORK has been in existence [...]

Odense creates bike-keen school children

In the Municipality of Odense’s project, “Cycle School,” the bike has become part of the solution to many challenges rather than a question of why the kids don’t bike to school. Here, the bike has been integrated into all aspects of the school’s daily routines. By Connie Juel Clausen, Municipality of Odense In the Municipality [...]

Copenhagen’s Bicycle Account

Historically high levels of cycling in Copenhagen. Copenhagen’s new Bicycle Account 2012 has just hit the streets. Here, the city documents the latest development in cycling. Both cyclists’ feeling of safety, actual safety and the amount of kilometers cycled are historically high. In several areas, however, Amsterdam is still ahead of Copenhagen, but Copenhagen is [...]

Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012

The first edition of Collection of Cycle Concepts was published in 2000 and enjoyed a wide circulation among everyone interested in bicycle traffic. The simultaneous publication of the English version spread the Danish bicycle traffic experience to many parts of the world. The second edition, Collection of Cycle Concepts 2012, updates the field, featuring new [...]

Good, Better, Best – The City of Copenhagen’s Bicycle Strategy 2011-2025

In Copenhagen’s new bicycle strategy you can read about the new initiatives and plans, which lay down guidelines for the longterm and overriding priorities within the bicycle area. These initiatives and plans are intended to help the City reach the goal to become the world’s best bicycle city before the end of 2015. The strategy was approved [...]