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 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…

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 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…

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 -…

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 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 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 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…

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…

26 Apr 2021 Live measurement of cycling travel times

Source: Fietsberaad, 23 March 2021. Image's source: Algemeen Dagblad

A trial is being conducted in Rotterdam with the live measurement of bicycle…

14 Mar 2021 ECOSense: how bike sensors can contribute to improve cycle infrastructure

As the Corona pandemic has shown, there is a growing demand in the improvement of the bicycle infrastructure. In order to be able to keep sufficient…