Since I got no responses to this [question][1] at Stack Exchange, please let me try my luck here. Call a continuous map $\pi:E\to B$ between CW complexes a *homotopy fiber bundle* if for any $x$ in the image of $\pi$, there is an open neighbourhood $U\subset B$ of $\pi(x)$ and homotopy equivalence $\pi^{-1}(U)→U\times F$ over $U$. I don't know if this has a different name in the literature or even if it is reasonable. Replacing ''homotopy equivalence'' by ''homeomorphism'' should be the definition of an ordinary fiber bundle. > How relates a ''homotopy fiber bundle'' to the notion of a Serre fibration? At least both properties imply that the fibers over connected components are all weakly homotopy equivalent. [1]: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/91560/what-is-the-relation-between-a-homotopy-fiber-bundle-and-a-serre-fibration