Challenges on the path to company bicycles for everyone
With the Tax Reform of 2020, Austria introduced the company bike model, allowing businesses to provide their employees with bicycles with tax benefits. Where do we stand three years later, and how could it evolve if specific barriers for employees [...]
Ministry for Climate Protection: Funding 9,300 Bicycles and 87 Projects
The current evaluation by the Ministry of Climate Protection (BMK) shows that the purchase incentives within the klimaaktiv mobility grants for 2023 are being well received. Vorarlberg leads in E-bike support, Vienna is keen on folding bikes, and cargo bikes [...]
Cycle Competence excursions showcase good practices
What do Leithaprodersdorf and Paris have in common? Only one thing: this summer, Cycle Competence Austria organised two excursions exploring the topic of cycle infrastructure. In June, the Mobility Academy ADMA from the French capital visited to explore good examples [...]
Vienna’s largest bicycle garage: the skyscraper-high Bicycle Arcade
Between Vienna‘s Southeast Tangent motorway and the Gasometer, there is the new residential complex called "The Marks," which not only serves as a highly visible landmark with three residential towers over 120 meters high but also houses Vienna's largest bicycle [...]
Austria-wide survey: huge potential for cargo bikes
The results of the first representative cargo bike survey in Austria have arrived. The goal of the 1511-participant survey is to identify potential for increasing the use of emission-free family vehicles and to understand the attitudes and needs of Austrians. [...]
Study on improving recreational cycling in Vorarlberg
At the start of the summer holidays, the topic of cycle tourism is at the forefront of our minds! The province of Vorarlberg commissioned a study by Rosinak & Partner, member of Cycle Competence, to analyse the potential for [...]
Vorarlbergs expansion of multimodality: VMOBIL stations opened
The combination of bicycle and public transport is to undergo a major expansion plan in the Cycle Competence member province Vorarlberg. The goal of the federal railways ÖBB, the province of Vorarlberg, municipalities and the transport association is very ambitious: [...]
Tax reform makes company bicycle models possible
On the subject of company bicycles the Austrian parliament has reached an important decision: As part of the tax reform passed at the end of September employers will be able to claim back input tax on purchases of company bicycles [...]
Where does the tax reform for company bicycles stand?
The long-demanded legal equalization of e-bikes and electronic cars as company vehicles had been hinted at in spring. Now that there has been a government re-shuffle the tax reform seems to have been pushed way back again. The timing is [...]
Company bicycle instead of company car
Healthy, good for the environment and stress free! With a company bicycle model (“Job-Rad”) employers can support their employees to increasingly switch to a healthy and environmentally-friendly mode of transport both for commutes as well as private travel. The CycleCompetence [...]