Velo City

Velo City

Velo-City is a series of cycle planning conferences occurring every two years. The conference series was launched in 1980 by the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF). The conferences are one of the worlds primary forums for the exchange of bicycling expertise.

The conference guests and speakers were initially mainly bicycle advocates, but they are now increasingly administrators and experts in the fields of engineering, planning and health as well as bicycle advocates.

Conferences have been held in the following locations:

* 1980 - Bremen, Germany
* 1984 - London, England
* 1987 - Groningen, The Netherlands
* 1989 - København, Denmark
* 1991 - Milano, Italy
* 1993 - Nottingham, United Kingdom
* 1995 - Basel, Switzerland
* 1997 - Barcelona, Spain
* [http://kamen.uni-mb.si/velo-city99/ 1999 - Graz, Austria and Maribor, Slovenia]
* [http://freespace.virgin.net/velo-city.2001/ 2001 - Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland]
* 2003 - Paris, France
* [http://www.velo-city2005.com/ 2005 - Dublin, Ireland]
* [http://www.velo-city2007.com/ 2007 - Munich, Germany]

Next conference will be
* [http://www.velo-city2009.com/ 2009 - Brussels, Belgium]

External links

* [http://www.ecf.com/138_1 Information on Velo-City from the European Cyclists' Federation]

* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3890651144803648751 Video on Velo-City 2005 in Dublin]

See also

Velo Mondial
* [http://www.velomondial.net/ Velo Mondial] , a cycling conference with a global outlook, arranged every seven years
* [http://www.velomondial2006.com/ Velo Mondial 2006] , held in Cape Town, South Africa

* Velo Australis : International bicycling conference(s) in the southern hemisphere. Apparently one conference has been held so far, in 1996, in Western Australia. [ Three lessons for a better cycling future, Wardlaw, BMJ 2000;321:1582-1585 ( 23 December ), http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7276/1582 ]
* VelOZity : Cycling conference 1999, southern Ausatralia
* Velo Borealis : Cycling policy in northern regions. The first Velo Borealis International Bicycle Conference was held in Trondheim, Norway, 23-26 June 1998. [ cite web | url =http://web.archive.org/web/19991004151019/hotell.nextel.no/velo-borealis/Intro.html
title =Velo Borealis intro, Official website, now archived | year =1998
publisher =Municipality of Trondheim | accessdate=2007-04-09 ]

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