In 🇨🇭 foreigners make up over 25% of the population There are a few municipalities with more non-Swiss residents than Swiss In Täsch, 🇵🇹 Portuguese nationals outnumber Swiss (41% and 38% of the population). They keep the tourist machine in Zermatt ticking www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-od...

Neuchatel 1971: voters reject 2 motorway projects because of major impacts (filling in the port, destruction of public spaces, etc.). Interestingly the struggle led to the constitution of one of the precursors of green parties (Mouvement populaire pour l'environnement – MPE)

📣 New paper "Bicycle and Free Car Parking Availability at Trip Destinations: A Sustainable Mobility Test for Parking" 🚘 Free car parking at 91% of trip destinations 🚲 More widely available than bicycle parking ➡️ The undersupply of 🚲 parking hinders e-bike use findingspress.org/article/1442...

⁉️ How many people are currently in a city? Here is St-Gallen 🇨🇭 🌃 Nighttime: 82,200 inhabitants and 800 tourists ☀️ Daytime: 119,000 people with commuters. tourists and visitors Nice figure from the latest "Un jour en ville" by BFS/OFS www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/...

Découvrez le Gurzelen de Bienne, ou comment un vieux stade de foot a accueilli une cinquantaine de projets de la société civile. "Utopie réaliste", "chaos ordonnée" et lieu en quête de "convivialisme"… www.letemps.ch/suisse/gurze...

Evolution of cycling traffic in Switzerland 🚲 Strong increase since 2010 (+80% in urban areas) 🚲 Stable the last 2 years 🚲 Most cycling traffic at Langstrasse Zurich (Basel was long 1st with Wettsteinbrücke) 🚲 All data are now online! velo-ch.eco-counter.com?siteId=30005...

🚲 "Cycling for all ages and mobilities", join us for our 3 webinars! 02.10 A. Rigal, Enquête sur la pratique du vélo entre 60 et 80 ans en France 06.11 I. Clement, Ensuring that Freedom to Cycle is accessible to all 27.11 Initiatives locales pour le vélo chez les séniors www.unil.ch/ouvema/fr/ho...

🚗 The history of speed limits in Switzerland. Some can spot what is ideology and freedom... Seen at the Rätisches Museum in Chur (exhibition ‘Watch out, cars! A century on the roads of Graubünden’, worth having a look if you're around)

⁉️ The links between traditional Swiss wrestling and cycling? 🚲 A good dose of courage and effort! 👑 But also the new wrestling king, Armon Orlik who cycles everyday to go to work and training and is a member of Pro Velo www.watson.ch/sport/schwei...

🚲 Soyez les acteurs et actrices du tournant vélo avec le nouveau CAS à @unil.bsky.social! Une formation pour ➡️ Changer la manière de concevoir la mobilité ➡️ Rendre les territoires cyclables ➡️ Dépasser les résistances ✍ Inscriptions 26 sept. www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/formation/st...

Comment faire cohabiter les mobilités? 🛴 🚲 🚗 ➡️ connaître la spécificité des modes ➡️ comprendre les problèmes (des 🚲 sur le trottoir? un manque de sécurité sur la route) ➡️ organiser la cohabitation (infras, règles) ➡️ promouvoir la compréhension entre usagers groupe-ecomedia.com/patrick-rera...

Here is the City tunnel in Zurich! 🚲 Built for cars in the 1980s but never used 🚲 Transformed into a #cycling tunnel after a petition of cycling advocates and a popular vote. Inaugurated 3 months ago 🚲 350,000 bikes. 4000 a day! 🚲 2 "velostations" directly connected to the train station

🥁 Build it and they will come! Here is Lucerne 🇨🇭 🚲 A 4-m-large bidirectional #cycle lane built on a former train line (now underground) 🚲 From 1000 cyclists a day in 2017 to more than 2100 in 2024 🚲 Seasonal effect but January 2025 is higher than all months in 2017 and 11 months in 2018

Only 2 weeks left to apply for a PhD position in geography of cycling/active mobilities with me at the University of Lausanne! Please share this opportunity! 🚲 🚲

🚆🚌 How far can you go with public transport? Here are the destinations you can reach by train/but in less than 3 hours from Bern. Easy-to-use online tool. Have a try! www.isochrone.ch

“No, you can't take the train with a horse.” Vehicles that can be taken on the train: ✅ bike 🚲 ✅ folding bike ✅ stroller ✅ skateboard ✅ scooter 🛴 ❌ horse 🏇 www.20min.ch/fr/story/glo...

"Le réchauffement global m'importe peu... c'est quand il est local que ça m'embête!" “Global warming doesn't bother me... it's when it's local that it bothers me!” Chappatte

L'Université de Lausanne propose un CAS inédit, ancré dans la pratique, pour faire progresser la pratique du vélo. Inscriptions jusqu’au 26 septembre 2025: Explications de @patrickrerat.bsky.social et de Dimitri Marincek: bit.ly/45nEqwe

50% des microplastiques dans les océans viennent des voiture. Et l'électrique n'y changera rien "Les résidus, issus du frottement des roues sur l’asphalte, participent à une pollution plastique insidieuse dont les effets commencent à peine à être mesurés" www.science-et-vie.com/nature-et-en...

Do you know that Romansh is🇨🇭Switzerland's 4th national language? 40,000 people primarily spoke Romansh, mainly in Grisons (the region on the map) Romansh is divided into 5 regional dialect groups and a pan-regional variety was introduced a few decades ago www.letemps.ch/opinions/deb...

🚨Drivers see less and less what is happening around them! 1997: Honda CR-V drivers could see 68% of the area 10m in front of them Today: 28% Why? Car design (and lack of rules) Consequences? Increase in pedestrian & cyclist deaths www.rts.ch/info/monde/2... saemobilus.sae.org/articles/lon...

Peak of Swissness: a washing programme for fondue & raclette 🧀🫕🇨🇭

Cycling bridge at Givisier/Fribourg train station to cross the railways or to access to trains

Open position: graduate assistant in geography of cycling/active mobilities Come to work with me at OUVEMA @unil.bsky.social to do a PhD on active mobilities (practices/politics/planning) and to collaborate on teaching and research. Some French is required career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Congrats to Aurélie Schmassmann for having successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Cycling among youth" at the @unil.bsky.social! The thesis will be online soon but you can get a glimpse of her work in: 🚲 Summary: wp.unil.ch/geoblog/2025... 🚲 Paper: serval.unil.ch/resource/ser...

Zurich: transformation of a tunnel designed for 🚗 into a 🚲 passage (440 m; 1200 🚲 parking spaces connected to 🚅) Plan to build 135 km of priority cycle routes by 2031 progressing slowly (4.3 km completed) due to legal proceedings related to the removal of parking spaces www.rts.ch/info/regions...

Civil society calls on the EU to limit new car dimensions by 2035 etsc.eu/civil-societ...

Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares New paper by Hannah Widmer based her PhD. Open access in Urban Geography doi.org/10.1080/0272...

I had a session at an oil refinery today with the Council for Spatial Planning. Not very suitable for World Bicycle Day! But I cycled there (my bike felt lonely in the visitor parking though) and lots of workers travel by bike in this large area. And you, how was your world bicycle day?

🚲 Nouveau CAS en Stratégies de promotion du vélo @unil.bsky.social! Du diagnostic à la mise en oeuvre en passant par la définition d'une vision et les principes de l'urbanisme cyclable… youtu.be/1Rwqyp5bZ9I?...

Carpentras 🇫🇷 goes all out for cycling slalom! The inauguration has been postponed due to criticism www.francebleu.fr/infos/transp...

🚲 Zurich turned an unused motorway tunnel into a #cycling infrastructure! The tunnel under the train station has never been used. It has been redesigned to accommodate a cycle lane and 1200 parking spaces. The idea was launched by PRO VELO (cycling NGO) and accepted by 74% of voters in 2021.

Join us on May 22nd for Sibylle Wälty's talk on 10-Minute-Neighborhoods! 10-Minute-Neighborhoods are urban areas where most daily destinations are reachable within a 10-minute walk or less by bike. Organised by OUVEMA @unil.bsky.social Zoom link: www.unil.ch/events/17471...

🚲 Quelle place pour le #vélo dans la transition des mobilités? @aurelienbigo.bsky.social donnera une conférence à l'Université de Lausanne le 21 mai Organisé par l'OUVEMA dans le cadre du projet STRIVE "La Suisse à vélo!" www.unil.ch/events/17470...

🥁 Kick-off of the NRP81 on Baukultur in Thun! Looking forward for the 4-year project Passage-paysage with ALICE at EPFL ⁉️ Our goal? To redesign cantonal roads into green infrastructure and to make more space for active mobilities 🚲 🛴 🛹 🦽

A motorway covered by a park inaugurated in Zurich See the change between 2025 and 2019 and the space used by infrastructure in urban setting! More open space, less noise, higher quality of life, but fears on housing prices www.rts.ch/info/regions...

"La SNCF relance le relais de diligence" Au-dela de l'anecdote, une ligne et une conception des transports publics qui interpellent... www.letemps.ch/opinions/chr...

Tester un mois sans voiture? 🚘 Mobilité=habitudes 🚘 Besoin d'impulsion ➡️ Personnes prêtes à changer ➡️ 1 mois=apprentissage ➡️ Pas de voiture mais abo TP, vélo, services ➡️ Conseils Limites ➡️ Besoin d'agir sur: org du territoire, réseaux 🚲 et TP, place de la voiture www.rts.ch/info/environ...

🚲 Venez découvrir le périple à vélo de Damien Delorme à travers l’Amérique du Nord, à la découverte d’écotopies – ces lieux d’expérimentation collective où se réinventent des modes de vie en harmonie avec la nature 📅 Mardi 6 mai, 17h – 19h 📍 Géopolis 2207 UNI Lausanne 🖋️ www.unil.ch/news/1745312...

Filming of a video on the new training course in Cycling Promotion Strategy. With Dimitri Marincek, coordinator, and in the bicycle workshop at @unil.bsky.social www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/formation/st...

"Découvrez la micromobilité pour votre ville ou votre commune" Podcast pour Suisse énergie sur les défis et opportunités du vélo et des micromobilités www.suisseenergie.ch/podcasts/mic...

New paper on teleworking with a focus on some gender-based differences With Jana Z'Rotz and Timo Ohnmacht Open access: www.socio-journal.ch/article/view...

Les seniors à vélo? C'est le sujet d'un séminaire organisé le 6 mai à Lausanne par l'ATE Séminaire gratuit mais inscription demandée: mobilitesenior.ch/seminaire-mo...

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

The 2nd Masterclass Velowende with @dutchcycling.nl was organized this week in Zurich! How to double cycling in Switzerland? What the dutch experience can teach us? How to make some streets and junctions more cycling friendly in Zurich? www.velowende.ch

Projection de “Weaving Threads Across Borders” en présence de Yvonne Riaño, réalisatrice 10 avril, 18h30, Uni Neuchâtel www.s-n-g.ch Ce documentaire montre la lutte de trois femmes migrantes vivant entre la Colombie et le Venezuela, une zone de conflit géopolitique et de production de cocaïne

⁉️ How does telework impact daily and residential mobilities? In our paper we show that telework ➡️ reduces commuting frequencies ➡️ facilitates residential immobility ➡️ creates longer distances between workplaces and residences Open access: serval.unil.ch/resource/ser...

Jeudi 27 mars: "Pourquoi est-il inadmissible de rouler à vélo en hiver?" Table-ronde à Sion avec notamment Suzy Blondin qui présentera les travaux qu'elle mène à l'OUVEMA sur la motonormativité pro-velo-valais.ch/fr/accueil/

Fahren Linke mehr Velo als Rechte? Hier finden Sie die Präsentation unseres Artikels durch Velojournal www.velojournal.ch/aktuell/nach...

Do cycliste ride too fast on cycling routes (Velovorzugstroute / voie express vélo)? The city of Zurich has measured the speed of road users Guess who rides the most above 30 kmph? Source: Velojournal