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"Pour protester contre ce constat édifiant et inciter la ville à prendre enfin des mesures en faveur des personnes handicapées, l'association APF France Handicap a collaboré avec l'agence Brand Station pour mettre en place une opération de street marketing simple mais percutante. L'association a imaginé un plan du métro parisien revisité avec uniquement les stations de métro accessibles aux personnes à mobilité réduite… et forcément, il est beaucoup moins chargé."

"Citroën executives explained at the time that the brand's strategy for tackling the electric vehicle market was not to start with expensive cars and work their way down in price, as Tesla has done, but to do the opposite: starting with cheap electric cars and moving up from there. Along with PSA's other brands, Citroën plans to make future car models available in electric, plug-in hybrid and pure internal combustion versions. "

"The company transforms normal cars into temporary self-driving vehicles to improve logistics around the production line ANNA JOHANSSON 2 OCTOBER 2017 Big-name companies have been using Detroit as a testing ground for self-driving vehicles lately. In fact, they're expecting that the first consumer-owned driverless vehicles will hit the market within just a few years. Swedish technology firm, Semcon, wants to use the technology to significantly reduce the number of people who drive in your car. The initiative is called Born to Drive, and it involves a number of high-profile contributors."

"Bicycle-sharing is part of the country's nascent experiments into the so-called sharing economy, with Japan looking to widen its transportation options along the same lines as it has done in accommodation with services such as minpaku (private lodgings). While bicycle sharing is still operating on a trial basis in Japan, domestic and overseas companies, including Chinese bike-sharing services such as Mobike and Ofo, have begun to show an interest in the growing market. Docomo Bikeshare Inc., a subsidiary of NTT Docomo Inc., the country's largest mobile carrier, has been working with local governments to directly or indirectly operate bicycle-sharing experiments in central Tokyo and other areas across the nation. According to Kiyotaka Hori, president and representative director of Docomo Bikeshare, the company originally began looking into bicycle-sharing from a social rather than profit-driven perspective."

"In fact, electric bikes have become as commonplace as, well, bicycles themselves. Yet, when it comes to electric vehicles, the car industry captures most of the headlines, as automakers such as Telsa and Nissan push technology beyond combustion engines. However, the number of electric cars on the roads - about 2 million worldwide - is dwarfed by the number of electric bikes that are in circulation. Navigant Research estimates that annual global sales of electric bikes are expected to reach 40 million by 2023. China, which has for decades been leading the electric bike market, accounts for about 80 percent of all electric bicycles sold."

"Aujourd'hui, si le secteur s'électrifie à vive allure, c'est avec les recettes du passé, ratant ainsi l'occasion de révolutionner la façon de nous déplacer et notre rapport à l'automobile. Le marketing de l'abondance l'emporte sur celui de la sobriété. Un acte manqué qui aura des conséquences économiques et écologiques."

"Enfin, le groupe prépare la révolution suivante : faire de ses véhicules "le 6e média, avec tout ce que cela veut dire en termes de monétisation et de services.""

"a ville de Lyon détient un nouveau record du monde officialisé par le Guiness book des records. Avec ses 1 600 cases pour une longueur de 1 623 mètres, « Les Traboules du Temps » est la plus grande bande dessinée du monde. Elle est à découvrir en ce moment le long du tunnel mode doux de la Croix-Rousse et se lit dans le sens Rhône-Saône. Elle est l'œuvre collective de Jibé, Yan Le Pon, des écoles lyonnaise Emile-Cohl et barcelonnaise Joso Comic rapporte Le Progrès."

"Kiev-based photography collective UUA (Urban Underground Athletes) are intent on proving that the country is about much more than strife - that it is also a place of rivers, mountains, forests and breathtaking landscapes full of the potential for adventure. Cycling in Ukraine is far from popular as a way of getting around or commuting. Its rarity makes for a close-knit community of enthusiasts. UUA was originally founded in Kiev in 2011 as a cycle courier company, but the collective's pursuits have expanded in line with the interests of its members - Lesha Berezovskiy, Vladislav Andrievsky and Anatolii Todorov - who share a passion for photography as well as cycling. By 2014, says Andrievsky, "UUA had became something bigger. We started hanging out, doing graffiti and printing T-shirts." With Ukraine riven by civil unrest, cycling also became a way for the group to see the country on their own terms. "In July 2014 I had to move to Kiev because of military unrest in eastern Ukraine. I met Anatolii and Vladislav and we started going on cycling trips together. We travelled to the Carpathian mountains and started photographing everything together.""

"The Nike-sponsored Biketown program, which rents 1,000 carrot-colored "smart" cycles for $2.50 a trip, has logged 160,000 journeys since July for a total distance of 312,690 miles. That's the "equivalent of 49 round-trip rides from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine," according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Last year also saw 3,000 people sign up for year-long contracts, which cost $12 a month and provide 90 minutes of free riding daily."

"comment, à offre quasi constante (et atteignant déjà un bon niveau de performance), continuer à convaincre encore davantage de citoyens d'utiliser  les transports urbains ou interurbains, réguliers ou à la demande."

"A l'occasion de l'exposition Doré & Friends, au Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg,  consacrée à Gustave Doré (1832-1883), célèbre illustrateur de Strasbourg, la CTS a habillé 3 rames de tramway et la station Broglie aux couleurs de l'artiste."

"La démocratisation du vélo s'observe, logiquement et inévitablement, à travers la multiplication de commerces dédiés. Si la plupart prennent la forme de magasins standards, d'autres cherchent à donner un certain cachet à ce mode de transport, dont le côté "tendance" est indéniable en occident. Ces magasins prennent donc des noms bigarrés : "bicycles stores", "bike shops" et autres boutiques de vélo "vintage" pullulent, souvent autour d'un modèle économique assez trivial mais qui déjà prend la forme d'une hybridation, à mi-chemin entre atelier, magasin de vélo et boutique de vêtements. On y trouvera donc de quoi réparer son vélo ou personnaliser ses atours de cycliste : casques, gants gilets ou même parkas... D'autres vont tout de même un peu plus loin, en mutualisant au sein d'un même lieu, différents types de services plus ou moins relatifs au vélo. L'objectif est simple : il s'agira d'offrir aux cyclistes un lieu qui lui soit véritablement réservé, et ainsi de constituer une "communauté" cycliste autour de ce mode de transport qui s'avère souvent une passion. On retrouve ici le même type de réflexion que pour les tiers-lieux de coworking, ou comment le regroupement de services et activités permet de répondre aux besoins émergent (et donc encore mal définis) d'une pratique en plein essor."

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