Join the ECC2015: play with your citizens and promote cycling!
The City of Bologna invites European Cities and their urban cyclists to the fourth edition of the friendly urban commuters competition “European Cycling Challenge 2015 – ECC2015”. The initiative will be held throughout the month of May 2015: it’s not a sport challenge but it sees the various cities, each with its own team, challenging each other in using bicycles as a mode of daily urban transport. Participating cyclists, each tracking their own bike rides with a free GPS-based smartphone app, will contribute to the total number of kms cycled in their cities.
32 European cities joined the 2014 edition (Rome, Warsaw, Tallinn, Oslo, Barcelona, Malaga, Bristol, Bologna, Padua are only some of them) with 17.000 cyclists covering more than 1,5 millions of km, for a total saving of CO2 estimated in about 180 tons. Thanks to all GPS data collected, many cities elaborated their own heat-maps being able to identify what are a city's most used routes, and then check the strength of existing and planned cycling networks.
The Municipality of Bologna and the SRM, the Authority for Mobility and Local Public Transport, are confident that the 2015 edition will confirm the positive results achieved in the previous editions, confirming once again the validity of the Challenge and its strategic role in promoting bicycle as a mode of urban transport.
For more information and registrations, interested cities can visit www.ecc2015.eu, or contact SRM via telephone at +39-051-361328 or via email at progettieu [at] srmbologna [dot] it.
Author: SRM Bologna
