Best Practices | Cycling Industries Europe (CIE)

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

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…

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…

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

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…

Project no longer live.

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

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

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

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

‘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…

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

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

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

Electrification in cycling…

By Ute Ehlers, Samaneh Beheshti-Kashi, Sven Fröhlich

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

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.

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

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

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

By Griet Vanwynsberghe & Julie Tieberghien (VIVES University College)

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

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

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…

Griet Vanwynsberghe & Julie Tieberghien (VIVES)

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

Janika Hintzsche (baron mobility service gmbH)

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

The…

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…

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

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…

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

In the Province of North Brabant, an instrumented bicycle…

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

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

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…

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…