We keep saying that EUROBIKE is reinventing itself with the move to Frankfurt. But what does this mean and how will all the stakeholders in the green transport transformation benefit?
Copenhagen, Paris, Utrecht - there is no shortage of European role models for urban planning that puts the bicycle in the focus. The topic is highly charged emotionally, although the sober facts are clearly tangible. A rational approach to the available space in the city alone would help, says geographer Stefan Carsten, who has advised Daimler, among others, on new mobility solutions.
Public space fulfills a variety of functions. Gastronomy and trade go about their business, markets, but also demonstrations stand for a lively cityscape. The areas between buildings in the city are also green and recreational spaces, people meet and move, play sports and games. Finally, public space is used for locomotion: mobility, especially car traffic, takes up a particularly large amount of space in our metropolises.
The bicycle is taking on a key role in the green mobility transformation – and for Deutsche Bahn too. During the show, the railway company’s subsidiary Deutsche Bahn Connect GmbH is working together with EUROBIKE to make it possible for visitors to Frankfurt to enjoy a relaxed journey to the event without their cars. Cornelius Kiermasch of DB Connect explains the background to this and why bike sharing has a great future.
Publication: April 2022
Christoph Neye is the founder of the Berlin-based HardTech Innovation Space Motionlab.Berlin. With his company, he advises companies on developments in future transport. Light electric vehicles, or LEVs for short, may play a key role here. In the interview he reveals what this involves and what will be on offer in this sector at EUROBIKE.
Publication: March 2022
Obviously, the bicycle occupies the central position at EUROBIKE – but in future this occupancy will no longer be exclusive! On an exhibition space of 30,000 square metres, Hall 8 offers the right venue for the topic of “Future Mobility” to present other options in addition to the bicycle. Various special exhibition areas, theme islands and highlights coupled with numerous conferences shift the topic of mobility as a whole to the centre of attention and present it in a new light.
Conferences are a logical addition to the exhibition topics and a key element of the new EUROBIKE. They seize on the topical issues, challenges and offers of all stakeholders in the green transport transformation and forward them to important target groups. With the new format of the EUROBIKE CONVENTION – Designing the future of mobility, for the very first time we are organising a platform for a specialist exchange of ideas on cycling and beyond to include all actors. Participants from politics, administration and the civil society will come together to discuss how the mobility of the future can be implemented. Through new formats, we are aiming to bring the different target groups together. And by taking an interdisciplinary view, we are seeking solutions that will make bicycles, e-bikes and LEVs into an accepted means of transport on an equal footing with the other forms. We are looking to change our culture of mobility and force the pace of development for the necessary infrastructure and the urban environment as the “city of efficient journeys and fast access”.
Publication: 2019 - 2021