Smart Cycling can play a significant role in achieving the EU’s goals for safe, sustainable and smart mobility, including substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and promoting cycling as a key component of multimodal transport systems.

The time for Smart Cycling is now! Cycling has emerged as a pivotal component of multimodal transport systems across Europe, driven by technological advancements, health and environmental considerations, supportive policies, and infrastructure improvements and is more and more considered one of the main angles to achieve a sustainable mobility system. To understand this evolution, a number of technological leaps, trends and societal changes in cycling can be noticed.