{"id":4762,"date":"2021-07-07T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2021-07-09T23:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:52:45","slug":"the-bicycle-friendliness-of-european-railway-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-bicycle-friendliness-of-european-railway-operators.html","title":{"rendered":"The bicycle friendliness of European railway operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Cyclists\u2019 Federation (ECF) has released a new report, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.com\/system\/files\/Cyclists_love_trains_report.pdf\">Cyclists love trains: An analysis of the bicycle friendliness of European railway operators<\/a>,\u201d which aims to guide industry and policymakers in identifying ways to improve the combination of two of the most sustainable modes of transport: bikes and trains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-carriage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-carriage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-carriage.png 542w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-carriage-359x500.png 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This timely new report analyses and ranks 69 European train companies and services according to six key indicators for combined bike-and-train travel, such as bicycle spaces in trains and the quality of bike ticket or reservation channels. The report\u2019s rankings show that there is much room for improvement in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Only one train service, NS-DB (Intercity Berlin), which runs between Amsterdam and Berlin, scored in the \u201cexcellent\u201d category. Operators that scored in the \u201cgood\u201d category in facilitating bike-and-train travel include SNCB\/NMBS, SBB, Deutsche Bahn and M\u00c1V-START.<\/p>\n<p>One fourth of the 69 operators and services scored in the \u201cmoderate\u201d category, including \u010cesk\u00e9 dr\u00e1hy, SNCF and Trenitalia, while the rest perform either \u201cpoorly\u201d or \u201cvery poorly\u201d on most indicators, including Flixtrain, Greater Anglia, Renfe and Eurostar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Cyclists\u2019 Federation (ECF) has released a new report, \u201cCyclists love trains: An analysis of the bicycle friendliness of European railway operators,\u201d which aims to guide industry and policymakers in identifying ways to improve the combination of two of the most sustainable modes of transport: bikes and trains. This timely new report analyses and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,50,315,28,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}