Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The city of Utrecht beat Copenhagen on the Copenhagenization Index– a competition to be the best at biking and urban mobility. We visit the city to steal the cheat codes to the top (so other cities can get back in the race).
#PlanetA #Cycling #Utrecht
Credits:
Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal
Video Editor: Andreas Hyronimus
Camera: Henning Goll
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Adam Baheej Adada, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read more:
The city's vision for 2040: https://healthyurbanliving.utrecht.nl/our-vision-for-utrecht-in-2040
Original video of Utrecht from 1993: youtube.com/watch?v=Ndp4-HLYrig
Dutch Cycling: Quantifying the Health and Related Economic Benefits: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4504332
The Dutch Approach to Bicycle Mobility: Retrofitting Street Design for Cycling: international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl18004/chap04.cfm
The Economic Case for Cycling/cost-benefit analysis: itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CC_MAKING-THE-ECONOMIC-CASE-FOR-CYCLING-2022_JUNE11.pdf and https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-six-times-more-expensive-travel-car-bicycle#:~:text=If%20the%20costs,every%20kilometre%20cycled.
Persistent pedestrianism: urban walking in motor age America, 1920s–1960s: cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/abs/persistent-pedestrianism-urban-walking-in-motor-age-america-1920s1960s/8241AC5118CD01C7B1F2AF9D8E8965F9
Dutch cycling blog: bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/future-fast-cycle-route-utrecht-amersfoort
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Follow Planet A on TikTok: tiktok.com/@dw_planet
00:00 Intro
00:35 The transformation of Utrecht
03:31 The biking city
05:32 Looking back to look forward
07:40 Can this work elsewhere? / The cheat codes
10:12 Conclusion / Another crisis and opportunity
The city of Utrecht beat Copenhagen on the Copenhagenization Index– a competition to be the best at biking and urban mobility. We visit the city to steal the cheat codes to the top (so other cities can get back in the race).
#PlanetA #Cycling #Utrecht
Credits:
Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal
Video Editor: Andreas Hyronimus
Camera: Henning Goll
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Adam Baheej Adada, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read more:
The city's vision for 2040: https://healthyurbanliving.utrecht.nl/our-vision-for-utrecht-in-2040
Original video of Utrecht from 1993: youtube.com/watch?v=Ndp4-HLYrig
Dutch Cycling: Quantifying the Health and Related Economic Benefits: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4504332
The Dutch Approach to Bicycle Mobility: Retrofitting Street Design for Cycling: international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl18004/chap04.cfm
The Economic Case for Cycling/cost-benefit analysis: itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CC_MAKING-THE-ECONOMIC-CASE-FOR-CYCLING-2022_JUNE11.pdf and https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-six-times-more-expensive-travel-car-bicycle#:~:text=If%20the%20costs,every%20kilometre%20cycled.
Persistent pedestrianism: urban walking in motor age America, 1920s–1960s: cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/abs/persistent-pedestrianism-urban-walking-in-motor-age-america-1920s1960s/8241AC5118CD01C7B1F2AF9D8E8965F9
Dutch cycling blog: bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/future-fast-cycle-route-utrecht-amersfoort
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Follow Planet A on TikTok: tiktok.com/@dw_planet
00:00 Intro
00:35 The transformation of Utrecht
03:31 The biking city
05:32 Looking back to look forward
07:40 Can this work elsewhere? / The cheat codes
10:12 Conclusion / Another crisis and opportunity
