Flagship
The Munich Cycle Highway Pilot
A 7-kilometre separated corridor connecting the Isar valley to the city centre, presented as the template for German Radschnellwege.
Read the case studyCase studies in urban cycling, policy, and motion
A curated portfolio of infrastructure projects, mobility policies, and implementation programmes explored during the 2007 Munich summit — archived for planners, advocates, and curious riders.
Featured Projects
Six themes shaping the way cities move
From separated cycle highways to school streets, from cargo-bike incentives to public-space reclamation — each theme distills a body of work presented at the conference into the questions every city is now asking.
Policy
Reallocating the Street — A Finance Model
How the Dutch capital shifted 12% of its road-renewal budget into protected cycling lanes and what the four-year audit revealed.
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Plaza
Superillas — Reclaiming Nine Blocks
A pre-pilot study on tactical urbanism that would later mature into a city-wide strategy for car-lite superblocks.
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Behaviour
From Infrastructure to Mindset
A behavioural study on how school-cycle training and city-wide commute challenges moved modal share by 8 points in three years.
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Intermodal
Bike-and-Ride at Regional Rail Nodes
A network model for high-capacity bicycle parking at suburban S-Bahn stations, paired with timetable integration.
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Freight
Cargo Bikes as Urban Freight
A three-year freight-replacement trial in Mitte: parcel volumes, dwell times, and the subsidy scheme that kept it running.
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By the numbers
What the archive holds
48Documented case studies
23Contributing cities
06Curated themes
1.2kkm of network studied
Editorial Approach
How a case study enters the archive
Each project is reviewed against the same three criteria: rigour of evidence, transferability to other cities, and the lived experience of people moving through the space afterwards.
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Documented in the field
Every entry is paired with on-site photography, ridership data, and the original municipal report. We work from primary sources, not press releases.
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Cross-city comparison
Studies are tagged by climate, density, and governance model so a planner in Bogotá can see what worked in Bogotá — and what didn't transfer from Lyon.
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Open to revisitation
An entry is never final. The archive invites follow-up submissions, corrections, and longitudinal updates from the cities that built the work.
Reading the archive
A case study is a question, not an answer.
We treat every project as a hypothesis in motion. The Munich pilot of 2007 asked whether separated cycle highways could move 10% of commuter traffic — the archive tracks how that hypothesis has since been tested, refined, or quietly retired in 23 cities.
- Each entry includes a 12-month outcome report alongside the original launch data.
- Cross-references link to academic studies, municipal budgets, and follow-up papers.
- Reader annotations from the original 2007 conference are preserved in the margin.
Continue exploring
The archive is a living document of how cities choose to move.
Dive deeper into the conference programme, browse the full 2007 proceedings, or revisit the editorial board's long-form essays on the year that cycling became urban policy.
Open the 2007 programme