Download English version of the book: CYCLING and Dutch national infrastructure

Dutch Mobility Digital Workshop Series

Bike-minded teams up with several other Dutch specialists to host a series of Mobility Workshops in the USA, you are most welcome to register and join these events. We promise to offer interesting insights and inspiration about Inclusive (E-)bike planning and design in breakout session #3!

https://dutchcycling.nl/en/dutch-mobility-webinar-series

“Bicycles & Los Angeles” at the virtual trade mission on smart & e-mobility in California

https://twitter.com/NLinSF/status/1273717323145216000?s=19

I was invited to talk in the “Good Morning San Francisco” talkshow about the potential of (e-)bicycle transportation in the Los Angeles area, highlighting the LA River Path Project for LA Metro, of which Bike-minded is proud to be part of the design and engineering team. Also I talked about the Dutch Mobility Week in LA and Seattle that we are organising together with the Dutch Consulate in San Francisco, the Dutch Cycling Embassy and other Dutch Transportation focussed companies. Go (e-)cycling in LA! #NLUSA #digitalemissie Dutch Cycling Embassy Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition

Video link to Talkshow “Good morning San Francisco” June 17 Virtual Mission Smart and e-Mobility California

The Corona pandemic gives cycling a boost

Bike route in Paris, RTLZ, image © Getty
https://www.rtlz.nl/business/ondernemen/artikel/5121146/corona-goed-voor-export-van-onze-fietscultuur

Cycling keeps people moving during the corona crisis and many cities around the world quickly open up more streets and public space for cyclists and pedestrians. These short term mobility experiments can demonstrate the benefits of bicycling mobility, for instance by enabling people to commute by bike. It is really a great opportunity to develop these bicycle networks into permanent safe, direct and attractive bicycle networks for a sustainable, healthy and fun future! This article is about how the Dutch Cycling Embassy and Bike-minded work with cities around the world to make this happen. #cycling #Dutchcyling

New book release: Voorbeeldenboek Fiets – Inspiration book about cycling and national large scale infrastructure projects

Los Angeles cycling mobility event with APBP

LA River

Maurits Lopes Cardozo of Bike-minded was invited to present about Dutch cycling mobility at the APBP -Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals- speaker event in Los Angeles, CA, on March 6th 2019. The event featured presentations with audience of transportation planners and other professionals and in depth discussions about how best practices from the Netherlands related to cycling infrastructure and policy.
Bike-minded continues to work in California with the Jacobs-Alta team to develop the design of the LA River bike path project, bringing an international design perspective and Dutch best practices to the project that aims to close the 9 mile gap along the Los Angeles River with a high quality bicycle and pedestrian facility.

Bike-minded part of design team for LA River Bike Path project!

We are proud to be part of one of the biggest cycling infrastructure design challenges of this moment: the LA River Bike Path project.

Image: Metro LA

The connected future of mobility

The connected future of mobility

On Februari 14th Maurits Lopes Cardozo participated at the MaaS Summit -Mobility as a Service- at the Connekt & Dutch Cycling Embassy headquarters in Delft. Kaj Pyyhtiä, Chief Customer Experience Officer of MaaS Global revealed the philosophy of the Finnish startup Whim and the announcement that the first MaaS will start operation this year in the Netherlands -Amsterdam-. Bikeminded contributed to de discussion about the role of the bicycle in MaaS as a reaction to the presentations of Vialis (Willem Hartman) en Swapfiets (Steven Uitentuis). The bicycle will play a key role in MaaS systems in the Netherlands. The challenge is how to integrate the bicycle in the connected system of mobility providers. I predict we will need more share bikes in the Netherlands in the near future to answer to the big demand for bicycles by MaaS operators and users. Interesting developments! 

Bicycle parking DOB-Academy

Bicycle parking DOB-Academy

The DOB-Academy needs a solution for increasing numbers of parked bicycles around the monumental building in the city centre of Delft, the Netherlands. The DOB bicycle parking will help to promote bicycle use and to keep te surroundings free of randomly parked bikes. Bike-minded provided an analysis of possible scenario’s and how to integrate these with the beautiful monumental building. In the near future both employees and visitors will be welcomed with their bicycle by first class parking facilities.

Health & activity route Eindhoven

Co-creation and design scenario’s

For the ‘Slim Licht’ (smart lighting) program the city of Eindhoven wants to realize an innovative lighting route in the neighborhood Eckart-Luytelaar. The aim of this project is to stimulate health and social interaction by making an activity route in co-creation with residents and other local stakeholders. Bike-minded teamed up with design researchers Otto Kokke and Marlies Bielderman to help Eindhoven with the co-creation and design scenario’s.

Interesting book Cycling Cities: The European experience

During the national cycling conference in the great city of Groningen, Maurits Lopes Cardozo designed the winning ‘bicycle concept’ 😉 and received an very interesting prize: the recently released book Cycling Cities: The European Experience. Thank you Rijkswaterstaat and Acquire Publishing for this nice gift!

I recommend reading this book, it gives valuable insights in important factors for city cycling.

Maurits Lopes Cardozo welcomed Chinese government delegation

Bike-minded Design Consulting welcomed a delegation from the Chinese city of Xiamen on behalf of the Dutch Cycling Embassy. The delegation was visiting the Netherlands to look at different aspects of cycling as inspiration for the development of cycling in Xiamen. 

Maurits Lopes Cardozo is Cycling Expert for the Dutch Cycling Embassy

Member of DCE

Bike-minded joined forces with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

As a Cycling Expert, Maurits Lopes Cardozo will help the DCE share cycling knowledge and inspiration with a worldwide audience.

Cycling Masterclass Copenhagen & Malmö

Cycling Copenhagen and Malmö

With a group of Dutch cycling experts we visited Copenhagen and Malmö to examine the best practices of Scandinavian city cycling. It was an inspiring and fun Masterclass with exchange many ideas. Great trip, thanks everyone!

Bike to work

Riding to work by bicycle on sunny Dutch cycle paths is a luxury!