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 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 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 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…

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…

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 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.

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…

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…

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…