Copenhagen has announced the winner of a competition it had organised: entrants were asked to present innovative mobility solutions that help to achieve the goal of integrating bicycles fully into a new intelligent transport system for the city. From a shortlist of six, a Swedish mobile phone cycle routing app was chosen. The authorities went for a solid solution with a track record, rather than the more innovative proposals such as the Vector Project by Living Labs Global. The app also allows users to report [...]

Kottke summarises an article in Salon about the way uncertainty makes the road safer, because all road users pay attention. In Suzhou, the traffic rules are simple. “There are no rules,” as one local told me. A city of 2.2 million people, Suzhou has 500,000 cars and 900,000 bicycles, not to mention hundreds of pedicabs, mopeds and assorted, quainter forms of transportation. Drivers of all modes pay little attention to the few traffic signals and weave wildly from one side of the street to another. [...]

New city bike unveiled in Newcastle to help bid to become the European Capital of Culture in 2008 The demo bike is fitted with the Sussex shaft drive unit from Taiwan (as also specced on the Zerobike chainless bike, currently available in the UK) and is shod with solid tyres from the Green Tyre company of Middlesbrough. The Tyne Bike concept is the idea of Nick Devitt, a Newcastle-based entrepreneur, director of a multimedia development company. He’s also a leisure cyclist and wanted to produce [...]