News 2019

Here you can find the 2019 news on the BITS project and other relevant developments in the domain of Cycling and ITS.

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Shared bicycles scheme with air quality sensors

03 November 2022

As a partner of the Dutch 365 days of cycling Foundation, Deelfiets Nederland, provider of shared bicycles, participated in the opening conference on October 13th 2022, presenting the We…

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Four recommendation workshops held with stakeholders

28 October 2022

Within the scope of the BITS project recommendation workshops were organised with external local stakeholders over the past weeks. The aim of these recommendation workshops is to bring BITS partners a…

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A review of state-of-the-art bicycle technologies affecting cycling safety: level of smartness and technology readiness

19 October 2022

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

Electrification in cycling has been increasing rapidly during the last few…

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RopeLight through forest in Aarhus

20 September 2022

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 lack of possibility to implement normal street li…

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BITS Final Conference is approaching

20 September 2022

The final event for the BITS project, held in person, will conclude four years of Europe’s first and only cycling specific ITS project. Bringing together project partners and stakeholder from the c…

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WOW arrives in Withernsea

20 September 2022

As part of the Blue Doors bike library project, which is co-funded through the Bicycles and Intelligent Transport Systems (BITS) project by the  North Sea Region (NSR) Programme, the South Holderness…

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PrioBike-HH: Enhancing cycling comfort and safety in Hamburg

20 September 2022

By Ute Ehlers, Samaneh Beheshti-Kashi, Sven Fröhlich

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg strives towards a mobility transition within the following years, making mobility more sustainable a…

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The CO² Fit Challenge by Baron Mobil in Oldenburg

20 September 2022

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.

Baron is cooperating with a new app provider in…

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Lessons Learned from the Measuring Bike

20 September 2022

By Griet Vanwynsberghe (VIVES University of Applied Sciences)

Within the scope of the BITS project, one of the ITS implementations of the city of Bruges was the . This bicy…

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BITS Project meets in-person again in Aarhus

06 July 2022

By Matteo Candelari

After 2 years of pandemic, BITS Project partners gathered again in-person in the city of Aarhus on 22-23 June. The Danish municipality hosted the Steering Group Meeting of th…

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