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Humankind

Three Bicycle Infrastructure Manuals Inspired by the Dutch

"It's the Design Guide, Stupid!" wrote Lior Steinberg, co-founder of Humankind.city in a 2017 article comparing the North American (NACTO) and the Dutch (CROW) bicycle infrastructure design manuals."What people don't realize is that half a meter can be the difference between a stressful adventure and a great cycling experience. That's one of the di...
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DTV Consultants

11 Ways to Optimize Traffic Lights for Cyclists in the 1.5m Society

The following post was written by Marcel Willekens and Tom Steijvers of DTV Consultants.Keeping as much distance as possible, at least one and a half metres, may be difficult for cyclists waiting at traffic lights. Before the corona era, large numbers of cyclists were able to bunch up close to each other at stop lines. This also enables large numbe...
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Manuel Klomp

Liven Up Your Street with Coloured Asphalt

The International Coloured Asphalt Foundation (ICAF) was founded by Ventraco BV, Rotim Steenbouw BV, and Ooms PmB. We want to inspire architects, designers, principles and local governments to use coloured asphalt for a more colourful urban society. The ICAF wants to create a platform for people who are interested in using coloured asphalt, to shar...
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Naomi Ruijtenberg

Fynch Rewards Safe and Sustainable Travel

The mobility sector is one of the bigger polluters if it comes to CO2 emissions: 24% of worldwide emissions are caused by mobility. The mobility sector is expected to grow at a faster rate than any other sector, posing a major challenge upon us if we want to stay in line with, for example, the Paris Agreement. Over 70% of these mobility emissions a...
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Matteo Jarre

Bikenomics and Post-COVID Mobility Scenarios in Italy: A Way to Rethink the Problem

As cities and states reopen after the lockdown, the public transport sector is under scrutiny: most experts have observed that both demand and supply of transit will decrease significantly, as people will avoid enclosed and crowded environments and operators will try to guarantee the social distancing limits by lowering the capacity of vehicles. Ca...
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Ronald Woudstra

School Streets Help Students Arrive Safely in The Hague

When it comes to School Streets, The Hague has been in the spotlight recently. First in 2019, when we organized our first School Street trial, and again now that we have rolled out 15 more School Streets to enable pupils and their parents to travel to the school gates safely. To me, this is the ultimate application of "Never let a crisis go to wast...
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Robin Kleine

Bicycles and ITS: Making Cycling Smarter

The following article was co-authored by Ronald Jorna and Robin Kleine and originally published in Dutch for verkeerskunde.nl HERE. The mobility sector is full of ICT-developments that are having a major impact on how we travel and how we use our public spaces. While these developments, often referred to as 'Intelligent Transport Systems' (ITS), re...
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Martijn Lelieveld

How to Get Cycling on the Agenda? Bikenomics!

Bikenomics as a Tool for Reshaping the Problem of Urban MobilityWhen you are on a bike, you know cycling is benefiting you: you are burning calories, saving gas and insurance money; you are not emitting pollutants which you might inhale back. Stroke after stroke of the pedal, you reflect on how good cycling is for those who cycle, and you would lik...
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Lucas Harms

Biking Provides a Critical Lifeline During the Coronavirus Crisis

The following post was co-authored with Alejandro Schwedhelm, Wei Li, Chris Bruntlett and Claudia Adriazola-Steil, and originally published on the WRI Blog.As the world works to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 3.9 billion people are under full or partial lockdown orders, as of mid-April. Cities have curtailed many public transit...
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Edward Douma

Encouraging the inclusiveness of cycling

Over the past century, cycling has become more and more dominant on Dutch streets. Not only for the young and the brave, but also for physical impaired. One essential element in stimulating this, is developing inclusive infrastructure which feels comfortable for all types of cyclists (e.g. less experienced cyclists, children, elderly people). But i...
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