Bicycles & Electric Bikes

Bicycles & Electric Bikes

Mobility active, also called soft mobility or mobility for non-motorized is a form of mobility for the transport of persons, and in some cases of goods, which makes use solely of physical means of human being, for locomotion. The means of transport assets more widely used are walking and cycling. However, other means less frequent with human-powered such as, for example, any bike on non-motorized skates, skateboard or scooters, also fall within the mobility active.

The mobility of the active part of the sustainable mobility, being promoted predominantly in urban areas and within public policies (municipal, where if gives a greater emphasis to the occupation of public space for sidewalk cafés, parks, gardens, streets, spaces, pedestrian and a broader public space descongestionado road traffic.

Mobility active, and there are security conditions, on the average, within the mobility options of each individual, reveals himself to be the most inexpensive, healthy and practical up to a distance of about 5 km. By making use only of the physical force of the human being, it is also more energy-efficient. The various forms and means of transport that make use of the mobility active, are referred to as modes active.