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20.01.2013
Cycling Expertise: Children on Bicycles – Mobility Education
File of the Week , S-6/2012: Children on Bicycles – Pupil surveys continue to show that children and adolescents want to use their bikes; but parental safety concerns and inadequate traffic situations often put a stop to these wishes.
23.12.2012
Cycling Expertise: Public Health
File of the Week , A-10/2012: Cycling can impact people’s health in many different ways. It can reduce health problems, improve physical and psychological well-being and enhance the quality of life.
24.08.2012
Healthy and bicycle-friendly school roads
Based on recent years of experience with cycling, The Danish Cancer Society has found the need for a manual pointing out best practices for structural measures, aimed towards active transportation to school.
20.10.2010
SWOV-Study: The safety effect of exchanging car mobility for bicycle mobility
Substituting a small number of short car trips with bicycle trips.
19.03.2010
Life Cycle’s Active Transportation Best Practice Collection
Collection of over 100 active transportation best practices from around the world released
22.02.2010
UK: Government outlines vision for an active England
'Active Travel Strategy' outlines plans to put walking and cycling at the heart of local transport and public health strategies over the next decade.
10.12.2009
The Lancet: Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Promotion of walking and cycling help to safe the life of 6,800 inhabitants in London - particularly through reduction of cardiovascular diseases
07.05.2009
The data show that the places with the highest cycle use – York, Cambridgeshire and Hull – are also the safest places to cycle.
17.08.2006
Anläßlich einer vom italienischen Verkehrsministerium vorbereiteten Konferenz zur Kinderverkehrssicherheit am 3.-4.November 2006 in Verona sind die europäischen Kommunen bis zum 15. September 2006 in einem Wettbewerb aufgerufen, ihre Projekte und Programme einzureichen, mit denen sie zu mehr Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber Kindern im Straßenverkehr beitragen und die selbständige Mobilität von Kindern unterstützen.
21.02.2006
Dänemark: Fahrrad symbolisiert gesunden Lebenswandel / Denmark: Bicycle sybolizes a healthy life
Neben gesunder Ernährung empfiehlt die dänische Tier- und Lebensmittelbehörde die tägliche (30 Minuten) Bewegung mit dem Fahrrad.
19.10.2005
ECF und ADFC: Einführung von Tagesfahrlicht bringt aus der Sicht von Fußgängern und Radfahrern keine Sicherheitsvorteile. Präsident Neun dankte Minister Stolpe für die Unterstützung der Vorbereitungen zur Velo City Konferenz in München im Jahr 2007.
16.11.2004
London: Choose Health: Choose Cycling
Transport for London's Cycling Centre for Excellence today welcomed the Government's White Paper on Public Health, which will help further promote cycling in the capital as a means of tackling the increasing obesity levels in both children and adults. The paper supports TfL's calls for new National Standards for cycle training, and could provide an improved cycling environment so as to help further increase cyclist numbers in London.
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