Interface for Cycling Expertise

Increased bicycle use can contribute to a number of important issues:
- a better functioning urban transport system
- improved health
- contribution to air quality management and CO₂ reduction
- more liveable cities
- social justice
- fighting poverty.
I-CE considers it important to open up mind sets and to participate actively in discussions during conferences and workshops. I-CE experts play an important role to achieve the necessary paradigm shifts and to create more basis for cycling-inclusive planning.

Velo City Global, june 2010

The Velo City Global 2010 conference in Copenhagen has been a great success. More than 1000 participants from over 60 countries participated. It was a lively conference with a good mix of speeches, workshops, round tables, exhibitions and a rally in the city. To include sessions on Structures for the future was another interesting program component.

Award for I-CE director by Danish Cycling Embassy, june 2010

The Danish Cycling Embassy honored the director of I-CE Roelof Wittink with the Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion 2010.
The award has been given to him at the Velo City Global conference in Copenhagen, for his dedication to international cooperation and expertise on sustainable transport and poverty alleviation.

Nationaal Klimaatevenement "Beat the Heat Now" in de Jaarbeurs in Utrecht op 12 december 2009

Beat the Heat Now is een unieke gelegenheid om de regering te laten zien dat het menens is met het klimaat. Tijdens Beat the Heat Now roepen de deelnemers samen de regeringsleiders op om met echte oplossingen voor het klimaatprobleem te komen.

Seminar: “Cycling: a way to confront Climate Change in the Metropolitan Region”
Santiago (Chile) 22 October 2009
The Regional Metropolitan Government of Santiago, in partnership with Ciudad Viva and I-CE, organized a seminar to reflecto n the need to integrate transport into the strategies to face climate change. The event was opened by Roberto Lewin, president of the Transport and Infrastructure Commission of the Regional Council; Lake Sagaris, president of Ciudad Viva; and Raúl Erazo, Undersecretary of Transport. The Seminar had the special participation of Anvita Arora, PhD in Transport Planning and I-CE’s Resident Representative in India. All presentations can be found in http://www.ciudadviva.cl

Cycling rally on the car free day in Brasilia
Brasilia, 22th of September 2009

The Brazilian Minister of Cities Marcio Fortes de Almeida took the lead in the cycling rally on the car free day in Brasilia, Monday 22d of September. He invited Roelof Wittink, director of I-CE to join him, with the secretary of Urban Transport and Mobility Luiz Carlos Bueno de Lima and the director for regulations Joao Alencar Oliviera Junior.
Roelof Wittink was a speaker at the Car Free Day conference which has been supported by the Dutch Embassy.

Seminar on cyclists and pedestrians

Madrid, 10th June 2009 

On June 10th 2009 the Transport Research Centre of Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (Polytechnic University of Madrid) in Madrid, Spain organized a seminar about the co-existence of cyclists en pedestrians in city streets. The program contained of  a mixture of speakers from Madrid and elsewhere.  Jan van der Grift joined on behalf of I-CE. All messages were clear: Madrid should provide pedestrians and cyclists with more space, more attention and thus more safety.

Brazil National Summit on Transport and the Environment
Brasília, 28 May 2009
The Center for Sustainable Transport Brazil hosted the 2009 Brazil National Summit on Transport and the Environment, a one-day event gathering about 80 representatives from government, development banks and non-governmental organizations to discuss the barriers and opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from the urban transport sector in Brazil. The debates included the discussion of the role of government, of the society and of the private sector to develop needed actions.

City Speak VI: Hong Kong on the Bicycle
Hong Kong, 23 May 2009
City Speak are discussions regularly held about Hong Kong’s future. I-CE was invited to join because of the subject of City Speak VI: Hong Kong on the Bicycle. Jan van der Grift attended the meeting and delivered his presentation called: Connecting people. The meeting was a big success; several people had to stand as all the seats were occupied.

Velo City 2009

Brussels, 12 - 15 May 2009

From 12 to 15 May, the Velo City conference took place in Brussels.  I-CE was involved in a sub plenary on developments of city plans for cycling in non EU countries and partipated in a booth with other Dutch organizations, the Dutch Pavillion.

CLATPU congress

Buenos Aires Argentina, March 31st and April 3rd, 2009 

“Mobility or Immobility” was the theme of the last CLATPU (Congreso LatinoAmericano de Transporte Público y Urbano) congress held in Buenos Aires, Argentina between March 31st and April 3rd, 2009. The  key slogan  of this event - “Mobility or immobility” – dealt with the way we try to improve mobility in cities around the world. Jan van der Grift, I-CE expert, participated in the CLATPU congress.

Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting and World Bank/Embarq sessions
Washington, 11-16 January 2009
Roelof Wittink, executive director of I-CE,  was invited to contribute with a presentation in a session at TRB on transport and the climate change to speak about cycling inclusive planning. He was also invited to contribute with a presentation in a session on safety and social issues at the Transformation Transportation conference by the World Bank and WRI/Embarq to speak about road safety.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference
Poznań, 1-12 December 2008
Roelof Wittink, executive director of I-CE, participated in the COP 14 conference in Poznan. The reason is obvious, the climate agenda is a not-to-miss opportunity for the promotion of urban sustainable transport. To make use of that, alignment with actors in international transport and in the linkage between transport and the climate/air quality, is needed. I-CE is engaging with ICLEI, CAI-LAC, CAI-Asia, ADB and World Bank in programs for urban transport in Asia and Latin America. These networks and donor agencies prepared sessions to get transport higher on the climate agenda.

Urban Mobility Conference
Delhi, December 2008
Roelof Wittink has been invited to speak at the Urban Mobility conference in December 2008. Data on cycling between India and the Netherlands were compared and the history of cycling policies as well.

International Conference on Green Transport Development - Green Transport Summit
Taiwan, 25-26 November 2008
Taipei County, the largest local jurisdiction in Taiwan in terms of population as well as registered motor vehicles, intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by adopting Green Transport Initiatives (a transport concept which relies on walk, bicycle, and low polluting public transport means to accomplish socio-economic activities). Hans de Jong, consultant for I-CE, analysed the green transport policy of the national government and presented the findings in a presentation “Development of cycling-orientated cities” during the International Conference on Green Transport Development.

Better Air Quality (BAQ) workshop
Bangkok, 9 - 14 November 2008
Every two years CAI-Asia is organising the so called BAQ Workshop, BAQ being an abbreviation for Better Air Quality. This workshop attracts about 1,000 participants from all over the world, but mainly from Asian countries. This workshop is also used as an opportunity for SUMA-partners to showcase their achievements and to meet with each other.

Cities for Mobility World Congress, 1st to 4th of June 2008, Stuttgart, Germany

From 1st to 4th of June 2008, in Stuttgart City Hall, the World Congress of the global network Cities for Mobility took place under the slogan “Towards environmentally friendly mobility in our cities.” On the initiative of Mayor Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, for the second time traffic experts, mayors, representatives of the business and scientific communities as well as non-governmental organisations from more than 30 countries came together in the city of Stuttgart. In workshops and discussion groups around 300 congress participants jointly searched for ways to a socially just, environmentally-friendly and economy focused mobility.

World Conference on Development of Cities -13th to 16th of February 2008 - Porto Alegre – Brasil
Conferência Mundial sobre Desenvolvimento das Cidades
The theme of the World Conference on the Development of Cities in Porto Alegre was Democratic innovation and social transformation for inclusive cities in the 21st century. I-CE was represented in Conference by Giselle Xavier (BPP RR Brasil).

CLATPU 18th to 22nd November 2007 - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
Congresso Latino Americano de Transporte Público e Urbano

The Latin American Congress for Urban Public Transportation (CLATPU) discusses issues related to mobility, sustainable transport, climate change and air quality, bringing about 800 policymakers, transport experts and city officials from around the world to attend the conference each year in a different LA city.
In November 2007, from 18th to 22nd, the CLATPU Congress was held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I-CE was present at the event with a poster and a technical session.

Workshop Urban Mobility Conference: What role for cycling?
United Kingdom, 21 September 2006
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands organised a one-day conference on the 21st of September on Urban Mobility and the role of cycling in an urban environment. As part of their public diplomacy efforts the Embassy tries to share its countries’ long experience with cycling and its ability to accommodate cyclists within its existing traffic schemes in order to guarantee a safe mode of transportation.

Velo Mondial 2006
Cape Town, March 2006
The third Velo Mondial conference took place in Cape Town in 2006, following Montreal in 1992 and Amsterdam in 2000. The Locomotives program of I-CE was in its fourth and last year. I-CE's Locomotives partners IDS (India), Practical Action South Asia (Sri Lanka), AALOCOM (Tanzania), Practical Action East Africa (Kenya), Fabio (Uganda), BEN (South Africa), CCE (Ghana), ViaCiclo (Brazil) and PPQ (Colombia) were invited to present their results and Roelof Wittink presented the overall results of the program.