In late March 2023, #BiciBús activists from Barcelona hosted fellow ‘bike bus’ leaders from around the world for the first-ever global Bike Bus Summit.Read more
Electric school bus adoption continues to expand in the United States. As of December 2022, there are 1,398 electric school buses that are either on order, delivered or operating. In total, there are now 5,612...Read more
Promoting cycling in and around schools is the aim of an innovative new project, The Cycling Games, which is bringing together urban mobility experts from across the globe.Read more
European Mobility Week may have just ended but it is leaving behind a legacy of tangible results that show society how it can work towards truly child-friendly cities.Read more
In The Netherlands, the ‘Stint’, an electric transport vehicle that is used to transport children will return after a ban. The ban was put in place last year after four children were killed when a...Read more
In September the Birmingham City Council will ban vehicles from roads that surround six schools. The roads will be closed for about an hour at the start and end of each school day. The goal...Read more
From May 6-12 2019, the United Nations celebrated the fifth iteration of its Global Road Safety Week with the theme of leadership. The topic highlights the role that elected leaders have in enforcing and implementing...Read more
|Comment|author: Natalia Lleras and Veronica Linares
Spin and Better Block Foundation are calling on designers, urbanists and anyone who cares about safe and livable streets, to submit ideas for a new generation of multimodal parklets. Winning projects will be rolled out...Read more
In European cities, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists make up 70% of road deaths. This is according to the European Transport Safety Council, who are authors of a new report. The report also states tackling urban...Read more
During the Child in the City International seminar in Antwerp, Sven De Visscher was the moderator of the Parallel Session on Sustainable Mobility. In this article, he provides a summary of the presentations and ideas...Read more
Thirty-six people died in traffic crashes in Washington, D.C., last year, a 20% increase from 2017. Eight people, six of whom were walking or biking, have already been killed this year, prompting a major public rally...Read more
Some schools in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, see more than a dozen of their students injured or killed in road crashes every year. Haphazard development in the nation’s capital paired with a growing number of...Read more
Chaos often reigns on the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital. Minivans, cars and motorcycles careen along half-finished roads without markings, sidewalks or traffic lights. Pedestrians walk single-file within reach of speeding vehicles. Groups...Read more
|Comment|author: Madeleine Galvin and Anne Maassen
Jens Aerts will give his keynote presentation at the Child in the City International Seminar in Antwerp next month. His keynote is titled ‘Shaping a sustainable urban future for and by children’. In this interview,...Read more
The Belgian municipality of Hoogstraten is making primary school routes safer. The municipality won the Flemish Road Safety Award 2019 last month and they are in the process of redesigning the area around eight schools....Read more
In Bangladesh the Child Rights Advocacy Coalition reported that 627 children were casualties of road accidents in 2018. Meaning the number of child casualties almost doubled from the previous year. This has led to school...Read more