🚲 What a wonderful afternoon! We celebrated the 5th anniversary of OUVEMA, the research centre on cycling and active mobilities @unil.bsky.social Great discussions on how to accelerate the development of cycling in Switzerland 🙏 Many thanks to the speakers and the audience!

There is still time to sign up for Isabelle's online talk on “Ensuring that Freedom to Cycle is Accessible to All”. When: Thursday, 6th November Time: 11am–12pm (London time) Register your free place here: unil.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @isabelleclementmbe.bsky.social

What is the level of education in Switzerland? ➡️ Compulsory education from 29% (1991) to 17% (2021) ➡️ Apprenticeship from 55% to 42% ➡️ Tertiary education (university or equivalent) from 16% to 41%, overrepresented in urban areas www.tagesanzeiger.ch/bildung-schw...

This Thursday! Still time to register!

📣 @isabelleclementmbe.bsky.social will give a talk "Ensuring that freedom to cycle is accessible to all" ➡️ Thursday 6th Nov. at 12.00 (Swiss time) ➡️ Register to get the link: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17... Part of a webinar series "Cycling for all ages and abilities" by OUVEMA @unil.bsky.social & ATE

🙏 Nous avons le grand plaisir de recevoir Ursula Wyss le 5 novembre pour les 5 ans de l'OUVEMA! Comment initier le tournant vélo en Suisse? ✍ Inscrivez-vous pour une après-midi riche en présentations et débats: events.unil.ch/register/520 Plus d'infos: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

Une E-bike city? C'est une ville où la moitié de la chaussée est (re)donnée aux vélos à assistance électrique, vélos et micromobilités. Venez découvrir cet ambitieux projet de l'ETHZ à l'occasion de 5 ans de l'OUVEMA le 5 novembre: events.unil.ch/register/520

‼️ What a (wonderful) week ‼️ I had the honour of being a guest professor at Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 📝 Lectures to Master's students, discussions with colleagues & actors of cycling, visit of the new tram line, and 100km on my Brompton to discover the cycling infrastructure (& the sea!)...

🚲 "Le retour de la bicyclette en Europe" L'OUVEMA accueille Frédéric Héran le 5 novembre! Inscription pour les 5 ans de l'OUVEMA: events.unil.ch/register/520

New paper from @patrickrerat.bsky.social and colleagues. I wish I'd read this 3 hours ago because I literally just gave a speech that totally agrees with their claim: "The paper underlines the limits of behavioural measures and the need for redesigning infrastructure" api.unil.ch/iris/server/...

Cyclists will soon be counted in the centre of Neuchâtel!

🚲 🚲 Nouvelle formation en Stratégies de promotion du vélo à @unil.bsky.social Vous souhaitez faire partie de la première volée en janvier? Inscription au 20 octobre Pour en savoir plus, l'article d'Allez Savoir (wp.unil.ch/allezsavoir/...)! Ou www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/formation/st...

⁉️ Is your municipality bike-friendly? 📝 Until November 30, rate the municipality where you regularly ride your bike! 🚲 In spring 2026, the most bike-friendly municipalities in Switzerland will be awarded the “Bike Award” by PRO VELO www.prixvelo.ch

Bicycle and Free Car Parking Availability at Trip Destinations: A Sustainable Mobility Test for Parking

Last field trip in Zurich with students in urban planning at Uni Lausanne Zurich is a fascinating city (e.g. the financial capital of Switzerland has 25% of its housing stock which is non profit) This year I noticed for the first time the cyclists on the building of the urban planning department!

1 485 millions d'euros de pub pour les SUV, pour environ 850 000 SUV vendus en 2024, ça nous fait un joli ratio de... environ 1 750 euros de publicité par véhicule vendu !

Motorways are cumbersome. Zurich shows 4 ways of dealing with them... 😱 Finding space over a river (that's so 60s...) 😮‍💨 Stoping building them abruptly (better late than never?) 😀 Covering them with a park (Ueberlandpark) 😀 Turning them into a cycling tunnel

🚲 L'Observatoire du vélo et des mobilités actives fête ses 5 ans le 5.11 avec ➡️ T Vennemann, UNIL ➡️ F Germond, Lausanne ➡️ P Rérat, UNIL ➡️ F Héran, Uni Lille ➡️ K Axhausen, ETHZ ➡️ U Wyss, Velowende ➡️ D Klopfenstein, PRO VELO ➡️ P-O Nobs, Fribourg ➡️ D Raedler, ATE ➡️ B Tuosto, Yverdon shorturl.at/D6jKj

🚲 Annual meeting of Cycla, the alliance for cycling, in Bern today. And what is nice about having a meeting till mid afternoon in Bern? The 56 km to cycle back home!

📣 Jeudi 2 octobre à 12h00. Alexandre Rigal (Cerema) présentera les résultats d'une enquête sur la pratique du vélo chez les seniors en France 🚲 On vous attends nombreux. Infos et lien zoom: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

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?...