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…

26 Sep 2024 SMART

Project no longer live.

By using SMART, Enschede municipality provides cycling challenge every month for two weeks. It started in March 2017 and is…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

01 Feb 2021 Intelligent Transport Systems in the European Union: a new start?

The European Union has finally decided to act on the Intelligent Transport Systems legislation and drive forward this interesting thread of the…

08 Dec 2020 BITS survey: what do the different types of cyclists think of ITS technologies in cycling?

In Spring, the BITS survey was launched on a large scale. Over 7000 inhabitants of the participating BITS cities and regions completed our survey on…