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A new train departure procedure called ‘LINDA’ is currently being tested by train attendants of Belgian railway company NMBS/SNCB. With LINDA, or Location Based INtelligent Departure Approach, the train attendant and train driver would communicate via smartwatch, smartphone, and tablet. […]
Superethanol, a mix of petrol and 85% bio-ethanol, might soon be officially available in Belgium. The royal decree allowing it is being finalized by the federal energy minister, Marie-Christine Marghem (MR). If the process goes well, the decree will be […]
Using his famous tweets weapon, US President Trump has attacked the car manufacturers that concluded a deal about future emission rulings with the state of California. He calls their CEO’s weak and crazy, considers the companies to be disloyal. Four […]
Transport economists Bruno De Borger (University of Antwerp) and Stef Proost (University of Louvain) plead for ‘supersmart’ road-pricing. With a road tax varying every 5 minutes you can spread traffic so efficiently that congestion disappears. “The departing times of the […]
Recently, a study of HR service provider Acerta concluded that banning company cars would be bad for the environment. Chief Economist Etienne de Callataÿ (Orcadia Asset Management) contradicts this and gives four significant arguments. The Acerta study has found that […]
The new Flemish government in the making will have to decide if the new, more stringent, WLTP emission rules will have an impact on car taxes. If so, this will only count for individual car owners; company cars are taxed […]
While a Walloon Region decree from February bans them under the act of waste prevention, car retailer cards still find their way on windscreens. An increasing number of municipalities have started a crusade against the small plastic-covered paper cards. Offenders […]
More than 50 Flemish entrepreneurs have written an open letter to Belgian politicians outlining 36 proposals for a better policy. Besides a radical reform of the Belgian fiscal system and a new view on migration, the entrepreneurs also have recommendations […]
After the launch of the electric Uber Jump bikes in Brussels, the company is looking to expand its services in Belgium further. New Uber products will be added in Brussels shortly, but no dates are set. In some cases, a […]
Last year, the Flemish car buyer paid 15,7 million euros more than budgeted to register his new car. That might be good news for the treasury, but not for the climate. It means the ‘greening’ of the car fleet is […]
Jay Inslee, a Democratic candidate for the presidency and governor of the state of Washington (US), pushes the climate issue way forward on the democratic agenda. He is solely talking about this, to make his point perfectly clear and convincing. […]
In his seven-pages-long starting note to assist negotiations for a new Flemish government, Bart De Wever limits the ‘climate ambitions’ to achieving the ‘sky-high’ goals already set. But at the same time, he sees a role for Flanders to become […]
While electric step scooters are not road legal in The Netherlands, France is debating stricter rules because of their popularity. Since there is no European legislation for electric step scooters, the regulations in every country are different. Many Dutch buy […]
The Brasschaat municipal administration is working on a regulation that prohibits trucks from parking within the city boundaries due to the number of vehicles that are causing problems. Parking is allowed According to Mayor Jan Jambon (N-VA), residents are increasingly […]
The new government of the Brussels Region is going to scrap 65.000 on-street parking spaces, a measure many Western European cities are taking. Less than 200.000 should remain by 2030, while there are around 265.000 at the moment. The objective […]
So far German FlixTrain, the new branch of the popular FlixBus, is the only candidate to challenge the Belgian rail operator NMBS/SNCB on one of its state lines from 2021 on. On January 1st, 2021, the first step of the […]
Several Belgian non-governmental organizations want Belgium to reduce its objectives to use more biofuels. They launched their joint statement following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last Tuesday. The report confirmed that large-scale biofuel production has a negative […]
Politicians in France’s less central areas are angry about the growing lack of public transport outside metropolitan areas. Local train services are being discontinued in favor of the TGV and bus services canceled, deemed uneconomic. Rural France feels disconnected from […]
Mining giant Glencore has announced that it will close the largest cobalt mine in the world. The price of cobalt has decreased, and the offer is starting to exceed the demand. In a letter to the personnel, British-Swiss mining giant […]
Many drivers in the Netherlands don’t want to use their seatbelt, causing unnecessary traffic deaths. In 2017, 18 people without seatbelts died in traffic in The Netherlands. This represents more than a quarter of highway traffic deaths. The Dutch organization […]
Two Frenchmen have started an organization for the regulation of free-floating electric step scooters. Both of their partners got hit by this mode of transport they call dangerous. The association is called Apacauvi, short for ‘Association philanthropique action contre l’anarchie […]
The Dutch police are seriously concerned about the increasing antisocial behavior on the road. That’s why they’re going to be tougher and more forceful with road hogs. In addition to traffic police officers, all other police officers will also have […]
In recent weeks, there was some commotion about the requirement for electric and hybrid vehicles to emit noise. The increasing popularity of the electric car could be a relief for all those who crave for silence, but the lack of […]
Four years after the dieselgate scandal erupted, 100.000 US Volkswagen TDI models are still waiting for their second life. The German car manufacturer had to buy back about 400.000 diesel cars with emissions-cheating software in the US. While the company […]
Spain is going to use drones to detect traffic infringements from Thursday. For the time being, three drones with a high-resolution camera will fly above the roads of the Canaries. Later, other drones will be deployed in different regions of […]
On Wednesday, prosecutors of the Munich Court in Germany have laid criminal charges of fraud, false certification, and deliberately misleading advertising against Rupert Stadler (56), former CEO of Audi. It’s up to the Munich District II Court now to decide […]
ProRail, the Dutch railway network infrastructure manager, wants to ban the cigarette from all stations and platforms, but Dutch railway company NS, the unions, and travel organizations hesitate. Engineers and conductors like to smoke now and then, and the company […]
Question marks arise around the French ‘péage’ toll road system of privately maintained user-paid highways. Users find the system too expensive, and reports show the margins for the operators are high. According to critics, the latter indicates that the French […]
The recent heatwave made it clear: public transport fails to deliver when the temperature gets high. Meanwhile, a leaked internal audit of Infrabel (rail infrastructure company in Belgium) also shows that there is chronic underinvestment in public transport. The heatwave […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) wants to stop investing billions in fossil fuel projects by the end of 2020. EIB makes this major change because the world is not on track to meet the Paris climate targets. “An important signal,” […]
Traffic regulation is different in European countries. Every country has its specific rules, and that is confusing for drivers. That is why former Belgian Minister for Economy and Vice-premier, Kris Peeters, and Cindy Franssen (CD&V), both European members of Parliament […]
Despite having been announced in January, the single transport ticket project for Brussels and its surroundings is still nowhere to be seen. Current affairs, elections, and disagreement between the four operators have run the measure into the sand. Back in […]
Speed pedelecs have been included in the Belgian road code since 2016, and are now part of the new category ‘class P moped’. In Antwerp, speed pedelecs are to be regarded rather as a bicycle than a moped. Additional rules […]
Four car manufacturers have concluded a first agreement with the State of California concerning the reduction of greenhouse gases from car emissions. By doing so, they challenge the Trump administration, who wants to soften the emission regulations. After a secret […]
Flemish Minister of Housing, Poverty, Domestic Policy, Integration, Equal Opportunities, and Social Economy, Liesbeth Homans (N-VA), has reversed a decision of the local authorities of Bierbeek (Belgium). Bierbeek wanted to discourage cut-through traffic by using ANPR cameras. The goal was […]
