The City of Houten is renowned for its design, which prioritises walking and cycling. Houten has been called 'heaven for bicycles', and for good reason. The city has 129km of bicycle lanes, a...
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A cleaner city: electric buses in Vienna (Austria)
27 Feb 2014The Wiener Linien (a Vienna-based public transit company) has purchased 12 innovative electric microbuses that can recharge using overhead power lines for trams. The technology is specially...Read more -
Giving back public space to pedestrians and cyclists in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
18 Feb 2014The ‘Superblocks’ scheme aims at enhancing mobility as well as citizens’ quality of life by reducing the negative impacts caused by the extensive use of private cars and through better use of...Read more -
Examining 10 years of London's Oyster travel smartcard (UK)
23 Jan 2014In the summer of 2013 Transport for London (TfL) celebrated the tenth anniversary of its famous transport smart card: the Oyster card. The card makes public transport faster, easier and...Read more