Design Failure of Bicycle Crossings
Seoul wants to become a cycling city. Just recently, the city introduced bicycle crossings that allow cyclists to ride across a street. However, these bicycle crossings have large design flaws...
Seoul Becomes Korea’s First Green Transport Promotion Zone
Heavy traffic is chocking Seoul’s city center as cars, taxis and tourist buses fight for road space. The large amount of pedestrians has to stick to narrow, inconvenient sidewalks. Cycling...
Haenggunk Neighborhood After the EcoMobility Festival
On Friday, October 25, I revisited Haengkung-dong in Suwon. This neighborhood was the showcase for the first EcoMobility World Festival. I wrote about it several times in the last few...
Sustainable Transportation in Korea
UN-HABITAT published some weeks ago the GRHS 2013 (Global Report on Human Settlements) with a focus on sustainable human transport. The report sometimes mentions Korea/Seoul and it contains an info-box...
Opening of EcoMobility Festival
Today on September 1 was the EcoMobility Festival opening in Suwon. When I arrived there at 5 pm, the festival was already in full swing. There was a large stage...
Overview of Seoul’s Car-Sharing Services
Earlier this year, we wrote about Seoul Metropolitan Government‘s carsharing service which started two months ago. Actually that wasn’t the first car-sharing service in Korea’s capital and also some more followed...
Namsan E-Bus, First Commercial Electric Bus Worldwide
Last summer I went to the N-Tower at the mountain Namsan in Seoul. On the way up the mountain I used the convenient cable car and the view from the...