This is a collaborative open project that aims at gathering detailed information about the Traffic Codes (or Street, Road or Highway Codes) enforced in european countries (a geographical focus, but contributions about other countries, such as Brasil or USA are welcome).

Project's contacts:

Webmaster: Bruno Santos - brunosantos @ bicicultura . org
Content: Mário Alves - mariojalves @ gmail . com
Content: Ana Pereira - anapereira @ bicicultura . org

Bicicultura.org is a development platform for projects from and for the portuguese cycling community. It's an informal, non-commercial and open endeavour - its content is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0, and most of it is collaboratively created in open wikis. The purpose of Bicicultura.org is to aggregate and promote initiatives that showcase, develop and expand the culture of cycling and the cycling in culture, defend and expand the legal rights of cyclists (and pedestrians), and promote awareness and debate of all things cycling (mainly as a transportational and recreative activity).

• Traffic rules and regulations for cyclists and their vehicles - European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO)
• Comparação entre 12 Códigos da Estrada Europeus (Mário Alves) [2005]

• Code de la route [1975]
• See also the section Mobilité - Portail Belgium.be

• “Lights of my Life - Danish Bike Light Regulations” (Mikael Colville-Andersen) [2007]
• “Rock and Rules - Wider, Longer, Higher” (Cycles' legal specifications.) (Mikael Colville-Andersen) [2009]

• The German Road Traffic Ordinance ("Strassenverkehrsordnung") [2006]

• Road Traffic Signs and Regulations in the Netherlands

• Código da Estrada [2005]
• Sistemas de sinalização luminosa, bem como os reflectores dos velocípedes, quando circulem na via pública [2005]
• Regulamento de Sinalização do Trânsito (RST) [1998]
• Guia de Sinalização Rodoviária [2003]
• FAQ “O CÓDIGO DA ESTRADA E OS VELOCÍPEDES - Perguntas Frequentes” [2007]

• Reglamento General de Circulación [2003] Changed in 2006.
• Reglamento General de Circulación (summary for bicycles from ConBici - more relevant legislation gathered by them, here) [2004]

• Highway Code in html an in pdf [2007]

• “Biking Rules - A new street code for NYC cyclists”, Transportation Alternatives
• A video explaining the Idaho Stop Law (“rolling stop”, turns stop signs into give way signs).

• Código de Trânsito Brasileiro [1997]
• A slideshow of a seminar by the ONG Transporte Ativo here [2008].
• Código de Trânsito Brasileiro de Bolso [2007]

• “Strict liability”
• “Loi de Badinter”

Help us find and translate the relevant data for cyclists in your country's Road Code.

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• (Other)

Please always include a reference (with a link, whenever possible) to the source of the information you share.
Formatted text makes it easier for others to read it and search it.
If it's OK, leave your contact (name and e-mail address) so you can be reached by others.

On a subsequent phase we might be able to create a comparative chart.