Tag: cycling infrastructure innovations

Academia. We’re hiring! (Closed)

28 September 2016

academia-cycling

The Technology, Innovation, and Society (TIS) group at the Eindhoven School of Innovation Sciences opened four PhD positions on Bicycle Challenges: Past, Present, and Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility.

The first PhD focuses on the governance of cycling in The Netherlands in a transnational context, with emphasis on the institutional role of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment since the 1920s in relation to selected cities and provinces. The second PhD focuses on the multi-level governance of cycling in The Netherlands through a number of historically significant case studies since the Second World War. The third PhD focuses on new mobility concepts in relation to cycling, assessing current trends and their potential. The fourth PhD focuses on the role of connected cycling in relation to the unfolding sharing economy.

Book Review. Infrastructure or Traffic Calming?

9 June 2016
Book review Cycling Cities: the European Experience
Book review Cycling Cities.

Carlton Reid  praises Cycling Cities for its historical insight into the key question: what is more important for cities to become true cycling cities? Cycling infrastructures or Traffic calming? To illustrate the book’s key message, Reid quotes the authors: “Bicycle lanes and highways are expensive to build, but cost politically less because bicycle lanes do not question automobility. Traffic calming measures are cheaper – as Amsterdam discovered. They demand political courage …” See Reid’s review for an excellent introduction to the book’s key points.