MegaBITS News

On November 1st and 2nd, Amsterdam hosted the Dutch National Traffic Conference, drawing over 400 professionals from the Dutch traffic and mobility sector. The primary goals were for professional to network with peers and gain insights into the conference's central theme: cross-border growth....

The project and strategic managers of the MegaBITS project, Ronald Jorna and Wim Dijkstra respectively, were recently interviewed for an article written for the Dutch magazine Stadszaken, published on October 2023. During the interview they had the opportunity to talk about THE successful implementa...

On October 17th, 2023, the MegaBITS partners consisting of Province of Overijssel (NL), the city of Zwolle (NL), the city of Enschede (NL), the Province of Antwerp (BE), the City of Copenhagen (DK), the City of Hamburg (DE), and Le Havre-Seine Métropole (FR), all gathered virtually for the inaugural...

The Netherlands continues to pioneer in the field of data collection for cycling....

In a recent partnership, Transport for London (TfL) teamed up with Google to imporve the cycling experience by helping riders find safer and less crowded routes by enhancing their visibility on Google Maps. This collaboration involves TfL sharing data with the American multinational, taking into acc...

The City of Denver recently unveiled an innovative pilot project with the objective of gathering data from smartwatches to pinpoint areas where cyclists encounter elevated stress levels....

On September 15, an interesting MegaBITS workshop regarding Floating Bike Data (FBD) took place. Over 50 participants joined this workshop - not only MegaBITS partners, but also other interested parties such as local regional and authorites authorities, knowledge institutes and market parties. Float...

An initiative called Bike2CAV tested a method for the cooperative detection of collision risks and developed warning concepts for cyclists during a pilot in Salzburg that ran for nearly 3 years....

What lessons did we learn from the various BITS implementations? That was the central question during the BITS presentation at the Dutch National Cycling Conference that took place on the 21st and 22nd of June. ...