PRESTO – “Promoting Cycling for Everyone as a Daily Transport Mode” is a project of the EU’s Intelligent Energy – Europe Programme granted by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI).

PRESTO is about competence building in cycling policies. The project aims to offer a set of tools for technicians to create cycle friendly urban environments, to implement sound cycling plans and to start up targeted promotion campaigns. Besides the local activities in the five PRESTO cities are meant for the people, to encourage the use of bicycles also among elderly or those who live in very hilly areas.

Today, pedelecs (bicycles assisted by an electric motor) are making cycling even more accessible and PRESTO will involve dealers to set up “try-out days” of pedelecs where people can test and see for themselves the advantages. Finally PRESTO will test an E-learning tool focusing on cycling policies aiming to become a long lasting training course.

The PRESTO website offers an overview of the project and its results. Find training material, Policy guides and Fact sheets in the top menu and download the files in six languages. We hope you will find this website and its content useful to improve the cycling level in your city!

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PRESTO was endorsed by the European Commission's Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign as an Official Partner in the period 2010-2011.