New platform for research and help promote cycling in Portugal
Aveiro is the headquarters of a body that is intended to help the economic actors and the public administration to develop innovative projects around the bike and sustainable mobility. The bike technologic platform and Smooth mobility has the seal of the University of Aveiro (UA).The new platform involves 30 researchers at the UA-related to diverse areas of study â€" and intends to be much more than "a new body to do applied research", underlines José Carlos Mota, one of the researchers who coordinates the platform.According to the public, the new platform has a number of partners outside the Academy, such as the National Association of industries of two wheels, hardware, furniture and the like (ABIMOTA) and Federação Portuguesa de Ciclismo."The objective [of this platform] also help the economic actors and the public administration to develop innovative projects in this area, and to create conditions so that the bike is used increasingly in the movements of citizens," adds the Aveiro University faculty member. And, equally or more important than all of this, "it is intended to help economic operators to create new products and services, which also create jobs", underlines José Carlos Mota.At birth in a region which also gives conspicuous by the fact that host a large number of national sector industries of two wheels, this body also wants to solve the "difficulty of dialogue that often exists between the actors in the public sector and the private agents". "It is necessary to coordinate efforts among the various actors", highlights the investigator of the AU.More than 3.9 percent of the city's inhabitants are regularly bike, when the national average is 0.5 percent. The data compiled by the National Institute of statistics (INE) indicate that more than half of the population of this region has a bike at home (bycicles 535 per thousand inhabitants).It is recalled that the topic of bicycle and bicycle mobility is taking a growing interest in the national policy agenda â€" the Government published the Bicycle promotion plan and Other Soft Modes 2013-2020-, beside that there are encouraging data that arise."In 2012, sold in Portugal more bicycles than cars", José Carlos Mota, reveals the purpose of numbers that leave no room for doubt: that year, 350,000 were marketed bicycles, against the 113,408 automobiles sold. More still: "the Portuguese industry is in the ' top ' of the European production of bicycles and accessories", vinca the investigator.Foto:  quinnums / Creative Commons
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