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Europe’s second-largest postal operator, with total sales of €35.4 billion. La Poste is France’s second largest employer after the State, with more than 250,000 employees, and was an early adopter of electric bicycles. As early as 1893, the company encouraged its postmen and women to use bicycles. In 2008, after a long period of widespread use of internal combustion-powered transport, the group made the switch to soft mobility and equipped its postmen and women with electric bicycles. There are now 25,000 of them.

Nextbike by TIER is the European leader in self-service bicycle hire (mechanical, electrically-assisted and cargo bikes) and a pioneer in the market. Founded in 2004 in Leipzig, Germany, the company is renowned for its reliability, adaptability and secure installations around the world. Today, the company has more than 300 sites in 21 countries. As a member of the TIER Mobility group, Nextbike’s aim is to make a lasting difference to mobility. As an integral part of public transport, the company offers millions of users the ideal means of transport for their daily journeys.

Savoir et Compétences was set up in Paris in the 1990’s as a social integration enterprise. Its aim was to offer a social and economic approach to disability. For the past 8 years, Savoir et Compétences has been responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of 800 electric bikes belonging to La Poste in their workshop located in Illkirch. To date, the association has around 40 permanent employees and 25 beneficiaries per year.

As an operator and integrator of all forms of mobility, Transdev enables 10 million people to travel around the world every day thanks to safe, efficient and innovative solutions that serve the common good. Transdev employs more than 100,000 men and women serving passengers in 19 countries on every continent.

Active throughout the Bas-Rhin since 1975, the Two Wheeler Action Committee (Comité d’Action Deux Roues 67) is an association that promotes cycling, in all its forms, to as many people as possible. Their actions aim to improve conditions for cycling, both technically and in terms of behaviour. They actively campaign to defend the rights of cyclists and to ensure that all road users – pedestrians, cyclists and motorised vehicles – have their rightful place.