Le #velo est de plus en plus intégré dans les agendas politiques. Mais qu’en est-il sur le terrain? Un livre présente une enquête auprès de 14'000 pendulaires cyclistes. Il aborde les motivations et les obstacles de cette pratique. #AuTravailAVelo

The 15-Minute City. Conference by @CarlosMorenoFr How to enhance quality of life by reducing car reliance and promoting proximity, mixed-use development, and sustainability. 27 Feb 12:00 (CET). Open to all! Zoom link: #OUVEMA

🚘 60 km/h speed limit on motorway in Basel to reduce noise The Federal Court said the increase in journey time (1 minute for 5.5 km) was minimal compared to the noise reduction From 10 pm to 7 am

❓Do Left-wing Voters #Cycle more than Right-wing Voters? 🚲 🚲 🚲 Read our short paper in Findings #OUVEMA ➡️

📢 New paper! How can we better understand public spaces and plan them for a wide range of use(r)s? With Hannah Widmer we analyzed 3 #publicsquares in Zurich and 5 types of "affordances" to address the role of designers and users Open access!

Bern #train station this evening: 🚄 30 trains departing within 30 minutes 🧳 South Tyrol advertising car-free holidays ➡️ more than 50% of households in Bern don’t own a car

Check the latest #OUVEMA newsletter 🚲🚲🚶 ➡️ 2 postdoc on #cycling ➡️ New webinars on how to plan attractive cities for active mobilities ➡️ 3 new research projects (parking, sport, planning) ➡️ New papers on cargo bikes and #motonormativity In 🇫🇷 and 🇬🇧:

📣 2 research positions (postdoc) on cycling in my team at OUVEMA @unil.bsky.social 🚲 ➡️ Practices of e-bikes (2 years) ➡️ Active mobilities practices and planning (4 years) Thanks for sharing!

"Sortir de la motonormativité" 🚲 🚶‍♀️ 🧑‍🦽 Comment assurer la cohabitation en piéton-nes et cyclistes? ➡️ Comprendre les comportements ➡️ Dépasser la #motonormativité ➡️ (Ré)aménager la voirie Dans le Bulletin de Rue de l'Avenir

Conférence "Animaux sauvages en ville: quelles cohabitations?" par Joëlle Salomon Cavin 19 février, 18h30, Neuchâtel. Organisée par la Société Neuchâteloise de #Géographie (SNG; Pour le vernissage du Géo-Regards 16 (

"Functional, aesthetic, indispensable - is the motorway the masterpiece of the 20th century?" "Why, in the eyes of future generations, shouldn't motorways, as architectural masterpieces, be our cathedrals?" Berchet 1961

📣 Call for abstracts, 7th Swiss #Mobility Conference Sept 2025, Lausanne - Socio-ecological transitions - Public policy - Norms, values, practices - Rhythms - Infrastructure - Theoretical debates - Methodological innovations 📆 March 9th,

Just spotted in the acknowledgments of a paper: "The author wishes to acknowledge the helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article from Professor XXX and from one of the two referees." I guess reviewer 2 has struck again... 😁

🌐 Intéressé-e par (re)découvrir l'histoire de la #géographie et de la #cartographie? Suivez les pérégrinations de Ptolémée à travers l'espace et le temps dans cette BD qui raconte les grands enjeux de la cartographie au fil des siècles...

Comment prononce-t-on le mot "vélo" en Suisse romande? Ici la proportion de personnes (dont moi) qui le prononcent comme dans "moteur" (et non comme dans "marteau")...

Geneva #velodrome and its magnificent portal (1910) You could rent a #bike and take #cycling classes ("Leçons de vélocipédie") as well as seeing races

Some impressions of a conference on micromobility (URFE project) in Marseille a few weeks ago. It was great to hang around the city and to discuss cycling with colleagues…

📢 "Cycling Mobilisations in Santiago de Chile and Lima: Demands for Mobility Justice" Collectives call for the recognition of #cycling and their demands include political, environmental & feminist issues Paper with M. Gillot in Géo-Regards. Open access:

The time of the year I hear ‘But wait, you’ll carry it by bike!?!’ #Treebybike

Where do Swiss people move to? 9% of them moved in 2023 but mainly on short distances ➡️37% moved within the same municipality ➡️35% within the same canton ➡️16% another canton (only 2% to another language region) ➡️ 12% abroad

The summary of the talks 👇