Archive · 2007 Summit

Seven hundred and eighty-one papers, one cycling city.

An indexed catalogue of every article, working paper, and conference proceeding from the Velo-city 2007 summit in Munich. Spanning infrastructure, policy, behaviour, and the slow choreography of a city in motion.

781Entries
42Countries
11Thematic tracks
1986–2007Coverage span
Featured paper

A long-read synthesis piece that anchored the opening plenary in Munich, examining how three European capitals measured the cost of inaction against the cost of building protected networks.

Recent entries

From the archive, this season.

Twelve new additions to the catalogue since January — a mix of plenary recordings, peer-reviewed proceedings, and field reports from partner cities. Filter by track or search by author.

Infrastructure

Winter maintenance protocols for protected urban cycle networks: a comparative field study.

Two-winter observation of salt, brine, and grit application across 412 km of protected lanes in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Trondheim.

14 min read VC2007-0118
Policy

Right-of-way reforms and the 2003 EU directive: five years of national implementation review.

Legal analysis of statutory amendments in fourteen member states, with a focus on vulnerable-road-user clauses and the 30 km/h default.

22 min read VC2007-0203
Behaviour

Trip-purpose diaries from 2,400 commuters: a multimodal week in the life of Greater Munich.

Origin-destination survey capturing modal substitution, weather sensitivity, and the elasticity of trip distance against network density.

9 min read VC2007-0351
Planning

Quietway networks and the retrofit of post-war residential districts: lessons from Vienna.

How a 1,200 km neighbourhood-level cycle grid was woven through 1950s housing blocks without displacing pedestrians or parking.

17 min read VC2007-0412
Data & methods

Counting cyclists accurately: inductive loops, pneumatic tubes, and the multimodal sensor debate.

Methodological paper comparing six sensor technologies across 1,800 measurement hours, with calibration protocols for low-volume streets.

28 min read VC2007-0506
Infrastructure

Bicycle highways of the Randstad: cost-benefit analysis of the 2025 regional network plan.

Ex-ante appraisal of five interurban cycle corridors totalling 380 km, including induced-demand modelling and agglomeration effects.

31 min read VC2007-0589
Equity

Who cycles, who doesn't, and why: a spatial-equity audit of three cycle-share deployments.

Disaggregated trip data from Lyon, Brussels, and Berlin examined for accessibility gaps by income, age, and car-ownership.

19 min read VC2007-0621
Policy

School streets and the 2006 Barcelona ordinance: eighteen months of post-implementation data.

Air-quality, child-pedestrian volume, and parental-perception measurements around 87 temporarily closed streets during school hours.

12 min read VC2007-0698
Behaviour

The seven-minute threshold: travel-time perception and mode choice in seven medium-sized cities.

Stated-preference experiments showing that cycling becomes competitive with public transport once door-to-door times converge.

11 min read VC2007-0712
Continue exploring

Step back into the 2007 programme.

The proceedings were framed by four plenary days and twenty-one parallel sessions. Revisit the speaker line-up, the venue map, and the working-group outputs that followed the Munich declaration.