11 Feb 2025 Enschede Fietst app

By using the Enschede Fietst app, Enschede municipality provides various cycling challenges throughout the year. The app is active for many years now…

06 Nov 2024 Measuring overtaking manoeuvres between bicyclists and vehicles

Cycling has been acknowledged by the European Commission through the Declaration on Cycling as a healthy and sustainable mode of transport to be…

24 Oct 2024 BikeQuality

For environmental protection and sustainability, cycling is the best means of transport for short to medium distances. In order to increase the share…

23 Oct 2024 Bike2CAV research project

Developing the connectivity and automatization of vehicles represents a great opportunity to improve cycle safety. A consortium, led by Salzburg…

23 Oct 2024 Schulradeln

Together with pupils, teachers and parents, the schools collect as many kilometres by bike as possible during a campaign period of three weeks. An…

23 Oct 2024 Stadtradeln

Stadtradeln is a campaign of the Climate Alliance. The Climate Alliance is a network of European municipalities in partnership with indigenous peoples…

23 Oct 2024 Radwelle Oberhausen

The bicycle wave reduces waiting times for cyclists at traffic lights. Anyone approaching a traffic light is detected at an early stage either by a…

23 Oct 2024 Ride the Green Wave

Mobile phone app that can also be used when using the bike, but was not developed for this purpose. The “traffic pilot” makes cycling more relaxed and…

23 Oct 2024 Leezenflow - Green wave assistant for cyclists

More comfort, better speed flow for cyclists, fewer red light offences. Leezenflow is connected to traffic lights (Bike-to-X); displays the remaining…

26 Sep 2024 Projektgruppe Bicycle Data Website

The product is an interactive website, where users can, on the one hand, individually compile and download the processed raw data. And on the other…

26 Sep 2024 Ring Ring

With the Ring-Ring-app on the smartphones (iOS/ android) of citizens, cyclists are tracked (100% automatically) what distances and routes they cycle…

26 Sep 2024 Data collection bicycle (meetfiets)

The Data Collection Bicycle is a bicycle equipped with sensors to detect location, sound, vibration and air quality. These variables are measured to…

26 Sep 2024 Provinciale Fietsbarometer (provincial Cycle Barometer)

The provincial Cycle Barometer maps/visualizes safety, comfort and use of cycle routes in the municipality/cities of the province of Antwerp.

26 Sep 2024 Cycling Data Spaces White Paper

Bicycle Data Spaces (BDS) have emerged to manage and interpret the diverse data generated by the various actors in the cycling ecosystem. As cycling…

10 Jun 2024 Sniffer bicycle (snuffelfiets)

‘Sniff box’ with a sensor for air quality (particulate matter), a sensor for vibrations, a thermometer and a GPS. The box is attached to the bicycle…

24 Jan 2023 Final Remarks on the BITS Project

With the end of the BITS (Bicycles and Intelligent Transport Systems) project per 31 December 2022 we want to take this opportunity to thank you for…

24 Jan 2023 Learning by Doing: Lessons from the BITS Project

‘The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the…

23 Jan 2023 BITS as a model project for cycling data collection.

Last 28th November 2022, the BeNeLux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) and North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) launched a joint bicycle…

05 Dec 2022 Dynamic lighting at industrial area Hessenpoort in Zwolle

Safe and comfortable use of new cycling paths by night with an eye for the environment, that has been possible in Zwolle since last year. The recently…

16 Nov 2022 Lessons learned from the 3D camera

Within the scope of the BITS project, one of the ITS implementations of the Province of Antwerp is the 3D camera(BITS newsletter February 2020 -…

03 Nov 2022 Shared bicycles scheme with air quality sensors

As a partner of the Dutch 365 days of cycling Foundation, Deelfiets Nederland, provider of shared bicycles, participated in the opening conference on…

19 Oct 2022 A review of state-of-the-art bicycle technologies affecting cycling safety: level of smartness and technology readiness

By Georgios Kapousizis, PhD candidate from the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Twente, the Netherlands

Electrification in cycling…

20 Sep 2022 Lessons Learned from the Measuring Bike

Within the scope of the BITS project, one of the ITS implementations of the city of Bruges was the measuring bike. This bicycle is equipped with…

20 Sep 2022 RopeLight through forest in Aarhus

The City of Aarhus has implemented a solution with LED light in the cycle path, as part of the BITS project. The solution has been chosen because the…

20 Sep 2022 PrioBike-HH: Enhancing cycling comfort and safety in Hamburg

By Ute Ehlers, Samaneh Beheshti-Kashi, Sven Fröhlich

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg strives towards a mobility transition within the…

20 Sep 2022 The CO² Fit Challenge by Baron Mobil in Oldenburg

After two successful bicycle challenges in 2020 and 2021, Baron started with it’s third pilot, the CO² Fit Challenge on the first of September 2022.

05 Jul 2022 Lessons learned from the parking referral system for bikes in Bruges centre

By Griet Vanwynsberghe and Julie Tieberghien (VIVES University College)

Within the scope of the BITS project, a parking referral system for bikes…

30 May 2022 Cyclists get green light sooner in Hengelo thanks to new trial

It is the frustration of many cyclists: waiting endlessly at a red light. In Hengelo, they have found a solution to this problem. On May 9th, the city…

05 May 2022 The Cycle Barometer of the Province of Antwerp celebrated its 5th birthday

On 30th of March 2022 we raised a glass on our 5th birthday, with two years delay due to the corona crisis. Local administrations, technical and…

05 May 2022 Oldenburg site visit takes a closer look to Smart Cycling Innovations in Northwestern Germany

By Johannes Schering, Zora Becker, Janika Hintzsche & Roland Hentschel 

Although we get used to online meetings in the past years and its potential…

06 Apr 2022 Lessons learned from the Cycle Data Hub and Bicycle Data

By Griet Vanwynsberghe & Julie Tieberghien (VIVES University College)

 

Within the scope of the BITS project, two platforms focusing on sharing…

06 Apr 2022 City of Utrecht experimenting with a way to relieve the experience of bike crowding

BITS partner Cycledata, together with the municipality of Utrecht, is piloting whether speed recommendations on busy cycling routes improves the…

05 Apr 2022 University of Oldenburg (Department of Business Informatics VLBA) and the Province of Antwerp are collaborating in research about the measuring of the surface roughness of bicycle paths

By Jana Klemp and Johannes Schering

The quality of the bike path surface is an important factor whether cyclist feel comfortable when using the bike…

10 Dec 2021 Lessons learned from two Baron Mobility Challenges in Oldenburg using a mobile app

Griet Vanwynsberghe & Julie Tieberghien (VIVES)

With the BITS-project, we aim to raise awareness of good practices of smart cycling, and to benefit…

10 Dec 2021 Oldenburg Bike Challenge and Company Challenge proves: App with gamification and tracking functions can lead to an uptake of cycling

Janika Hintzsche (baron mobility service gmbH)

"Gamification features have the potential to change people's behavior and can increase cycling."

The…

10 Nov 2021 University of Oldenburg (Department of Business Informatics VLBA) and Province of Antwerp publishing research results on near accident analysis

The BITS project is also spreading its results to the scientific community. To publish the key findings of the data analysis results regarding the nea…

28 Jul 2021 The Bicycle Monitor (“FietsMonitor”) helps to translate data into valuable, policy-relevant information

Working with data sounds easier than it is. Different types of data are collected and stored in different ways and locations. Dutch consultancy and…

22 Jun 2021 Zwolle action plan allows Zwolle residents to cycle even more

In 2014 Zwolle was named the best cycling city in the Netherlands. In almost no other city in the world people cycle more and more often than in…

04 May 2021 Assessing the safety of cycle paths with artificial intelligence

This article was originally published in Dutch by Fietsberaad/CROW and can be found here.

In the Province of North Brabant, an instrumented bicycle…