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Mobility is moving fast 🚀.

Jun 10, 2020
1 min

Mobility is moving fast 🚀.

Let's check the latest news: 🚲 After the 40 km additional bicycle lanes in Brussels, Antwerp will add 19 km. (https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20200603_04979813/antwerpen-legt-versneld-19-kilometer-fietsstraten-aan) It has been decided that NMBS-SNCB and Infrabel should team up to create new fast-cycling path network (https://www.rtbf.be/info/belgique/detail_la-chambre-veut-que-la-sncb-et-infrabel-participent-a-l-elaboration-d-un-reseau-cyclable?id=10515621). The sales of bicycles

🚲 Today (3rd of June) is the world bicycle day 🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🚴🏾‍♂️.

Jun 2, 2020
1 min

🚲 Today (3rd of June) is the world bicycle day 🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🚴🏾‍♂️.

In this post-covid period, implementing company bikes is requested by many employees (see an increase of bicycle use in the chart). What the best timing to highlight some of the main stages: 1. 📈 Highlight the potential: how many of your employees could switch to bike? Different methods and approach could be used here. 2. 🎯 Find the supplier that fits your needs. Each supplier has its own characteristics in terms of bicycles, services and operational process. 3. 📝 Define p

Great mobility news this week

May 19, 2020
1 min

Great mobility news this week

🚀 Brussels and its Good Move Plan won The European Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) Award from the European Commission. The feedback is inspiring: "The jury was particularly impressed by its approach to reaching these goals, which sees the city as an ‘ecosystem’. The city’s achievements are underpinned by strong stakeholder outreach, impressive citizen participation, and the implementation of “superblocks”, an innovative urban planning concept." The goals mentioned

Post lockdown mobility habits of Belgians

May 12, 2020
1 min

Post lockdown mobility habits of Belgians

Maestromobile and Espaces-Mobilités published the results of their survey on post lockdown mobility habits of Belgians. Here are some of the main conclusions (more details by following the link in the comments): 📌 43% have the intention to change their mobility 📌 22% will use less their car (and 9% will not use it anymore) 📌 34% intend to use more bike or steps What is interesting to see as well are the reason of those changes: safety, environment and physical activity are

"New (im)mobility: Can we avoid the private car revenge?"

May 5, 2020
1 min

"New (im)mobility: Can we avoid the private car revenge?"

Today I would like to share this interesting article from Joel Hazan, Pierre-François Marteau and Benjamin Fassenot (reference in the comments). Main elements I share: 📉 The lockdown highlights the fundamental link between mobility, socio-economic development and the environment. See for example the anti-correlation between GDP and air quality. 🏡 The promotion of immobility i.e. working from home. As we are forced to homework, we have to be creative to make this newest wa

The impact of the lockdown and its easing on mobility

Apr 29, 2020
1 min

The impact of the lockdown and its easing on mobility

When looking at the mobility data provided by Google and Apple we see the clear rupture when the lockdown starts. Since the end of March, walking 🚶‍♀️and driving 🚙 are growing slightly again. The impact on #bicycles 🚲 usage in #Brussels can be deducted from the Brussels Environment 's open data. There we see that at some points the level is even higher than before (as it can be observed on the streets by the way). Today Elke Van den Brandt announced the creation of 40 k

On the lifecycle, what does emit less an electric car, a diesel or a petrol one?

Apr 21, 2020
1 min

On the lifecycle, what does emit less an electric car, a diesel or a petrol one?

You can find plenty of articles related to this topic. Transport & Environment (T&E) published a comparison tool to compare both in a specific case. This lifecycle analysis (#LCAA) takes into account the car size, the battery production country and the electricity mix in the country where the car is used. One element is not included: the recycling cost and impact of batteries (because still unknown and unclear) This tool will be useful when considering fleet electrificatio

"Drivers check your rearview mirrors: More and more cyclists are taking to the roads"

Apr 14, 2020
1 min

"Drivers check your rearview mirrors: More and more cyclists are taking to the roads"

"Drivers check your rearview mirrors: More and more cyclists are taking to the roads, and they’re not going away anytime soon." That is the way the last chapter of the "Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Predictions 2020" from Deloitte starts. The growing use of bicycles is one of the 10 predictions mentioned in this report. (source: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/722835_tmt-predictions-2020/DI_TMT-Prediction-2020.pdf) To summarize: 📌 Del

How and where bicycles are used in Brussels?

Apr 1, 2020
1 min

How and where bicycles are used in Brussels?

Bike Citizens published on their website a heat map of the bicycle usage in Brussels (first picture). We can clearly see the axe Tervuren-Montgomery-Loi which is (in normal time) quite crowded. On the other side, #bike is used everywhere, most of the streets are used in the city centre. And what about the shared bikes? JUMP Bikes published also a heat map with the use of their #ebikes. In both cases, it is the pentagon and the south-east zone (Ixelles, Etterbeek) which is the

Extensive homeworking test phase 🏡.

Mar 24, 2020
1 min

Extensive homeworking test phase 🏡.

Because of Covid-19, most of us have to work from home. Last week, Viviane Kock invited by Benoît Minet (Cellule Mobilité de l'UWE) for a webinar to remind some good practice (find the video and the slides in the link in comment): 📌 Use the right tool (to communicate, to share information, to manage projects, etc.) 📌 Organise your self and set up a routine (incl. pause) 📌 Work in full transparency and communicate 📌 Align on emergency management (how to communicate within

More public transport than cars in Brussels

Mar 17, 2020
1 min

More public transport than cars in Brussels

Acerta published his analysis on the way people #commute in #Brussels. Some conclusions (figures include #multimodal commutes): 📌 Results are different for #Brussels than the rest of the country due to his better accessibility with #publictransport 📌 45,9% of the people working in Brussels use public transport for their commute. It is more than last year and more than the one using their car which confirms the previous point. The national average is 8,3% 📌 The #bike part i

GoodMove approved for Brussels. What is it about?

Mar 11, 2020
1 min

GoodMove approved for Brussels. What is it about?

The #GoodMove plan for #Brussels has been approved last week. The main target is to reduce by 24% the use of individual cars. The measures are the following (source in comments): 📍Divide the Region into some fifty mesh areas 📍Use the STOP principle (1. 🚶‍♀️ walk, 2. 🚲 bike, 3. 🚊Public transport, 4. 🚙 car) 📍Remove about 65.000 parking spots. Today cars are using about 70% of the public space needed for other means of transport 📍Improve safety with the introduction of