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On Friday German car makers BMW and Daimler announced an investment of one billion euro in their merged mobility services. Actually it concerns five joint ventures: Reach Now (mobility services), Charge Now (charging of EVs), Free Now (taxi ride-hailing), Park […]
The mobility budget is likely to start with a wider choice of cars than initially stated. Approximately 10% instead of 4% of the existing models will be considered. The strict emission standards will only be introduced gradually from 105 g/km […]
The Walloon Public Transport Operator (OTW) presents its ambitious plan for 2023. It aims at increasing the number of transported passengers by 25% and by 150% for 2030. It wants to reduce CO2 emissions by 30%. Free public transport still […]
If one in three Belgians worked at home regularly, there would be five deaths and 39 seriously injured people less on the road every year. And if the number of teleworkers doubles, then every year cars will travel 25 million […]
In the future, newly produced cars will have to be much safer. The Internal Market commission voted on Thursday for the mandatory integration of more safety systems in new cars. Goal is to halve the number of traffic victims on […]
The new Mobility Budget will allow employees to allocate their company car budget to other, supposedly greener, means of transport. Yet, electric scooters, hoverboards and unicycles aren’t included in the bill. Ecolo points to a much too slow adaptation of […]
By 2030, twice as many goods will have to be transported by rail. It is a lot more ecological and it would also make our traffic more fluent. However, different handicaps might slow down the breakthrough of the freight train. […]
Supported by D’Ieteren’s Lab Box, Lizy shakes the car leasing sector up with its new online platform. The young Belgian start-up offers low-mileage used cars for short-term lease at 15 to 40% cheaper rates than conventional leases. In Belgium, leasing […]
Driving economically can yield a profit for the environment. Still, this aspect is completely ignored in the climate debate. “A missed opportunity”, says Martin Kroon, former project leader of The New Driving, (Het Nieuwe Rijden). Driving more economically Between 1990 […]
Belgian-Luxembourg transport giant, Jost Group, is furious about the confiscation of 19 trucks by the federal public prosecutor. The company is accused of social fraud, social dumping and human trafficking. Summary proceedings The federal public prosecutor wanted to confiscate 300 […]
The common speed camera is past its peak. It is replaced by ANPR cameras. The first speed camera was inaugurated on December 17th, 1997 in Flanders. In 2013 there still were 1.455 of such cameras along the Flemish regional roads […]
Belgian national mobility club Touring pleads for a re-federalisation of decision making about mobility and wants a Marshall plan for Belgian transport and its infrastructure. In view of the coming general elections (May 26th 2019), the mobility organisation has send […]
Launched in 2017, the Allianz Bonus Drive app monitors drivers’ behaviours to reduce their car insurance premium if they adopt a good and safe driving style. The current average score stands at 82%, which allows for a 35% price reduction. […]
Belgium supports fossil fuels with some 2,7 billion euro a year in tax breaks. This is the conclusion of a study by the Climact consultancy commissioned by WWF for the period 2014-2016. For example, Belgium encourages the use of individual […]
With elections on the horizon on May 26th, the Belgian Federation for cars and cycle (Febiac) publishes a document asking for an inter-regional pact on car taxation. The federation wants a simpler and greener tax system with an intelligent kilometre […]
Women ride a lot faster than men on the electric bicycle. This is clear from the Monitor project by the safety institute Vias and the FPS Mobility, for which more than 10.000 Belgians accurately track all their journeys. This shows, […]
Last year the average length of the daily traffic jams in the Flanders Region has ‘shrunk’ with eight kilometres to 150 km. But not on the Brussels’ and the Antwerp ring roads. Ghent meanwhile fears if Antwerp solves its traffic […]
With the shift from petrol to electricity in Belgium’s mobility, governments and experts wonder what would be the best solution to compensate for the tax loss. Last year, cars and trucks brought 5 billion euro into the government’s bank accounts through […]
Antwerp authorities have approved a charter for a new bicycle parking platform, called VeloPark.be. “Users will be able to find a safe shelter for their bicycle through an app”, explains Antwerp Alderman for Mobility, Koen Kennis (N-VA). Open and shared […]
According to an estimation of Transport and Logistics in the Netherlands (Transport en Logistiek Nederland, TLN), there must be 136.000 trucks driving around in the Netherlands, of which 2.000 so-called super trucks or eco-combis. Breakthrough? Since Belgian and German authorities […]
Thursday, the Walloon government approved the draft decree on administrative fines. As of now, technical Highway Code violations and minor speeding tickets will not pass through the prosecutor’s office anymore. Offenders will receive an automatic payment order. “In Walloon cities […]
With the upcoming elections in sight, Stéphane Obeid, in charge of Mobility for the MR group at the Brussels Parliament, presents the party’s mobility program from the Brussels Region. The program includes a tax reform with an eco-bonus, a mobility […]
In the Netherlands, people are spending ever more money on used electric cars. The last twelve months the budget went up with 3.000 euro, according to a study by second-hand car site, gaspedaal.nl. Digital searches doubled In January 2018 the […]
Figures from the ‘bicycle counting week’ show that the use of the bike has grown significantly. Not only during rush hours but all day long. “The bicycle has become an evident means of transport”, says Wout Baert, coordinator of Flemish […]
Logistic service provider, H.Essers, and private railway company, Lineas Intermodal, have launched a direct rail connection. It’s the first direct rail connection between Belgium and Italy, connecting Genk (Limburg, Belgium) and the Italian port of Trieste (Italy). Secured/cold chain transport […]
Anyone who sticks stubbornly to the middle lane on a highway will pay a 116 euro fine instead of 58 euro from April on. The Parliamentary Commission has approved a bill to consider it a violation of the second degree. […]
Walloon Mobility Minister, Carlo Di Antonio (cdh), wants to promote car sharing in the Region. He asks major cities to provide free parking for shared cars or at least give a preferential rate. Goal is to reach one shared car […]
On Tuesday, Dutch State Secretary for Finance, Menno Snel (Democrats 66), has presented a European tax on CO2 emissions of airplanes. He emphasized the urgency for measures related to climate change. Most polluting Minister Snel wants a tax on the […]
In France, the private car was the most important means of transport for commuting in 2015. Seven out of ten French used their car to go to work. Other means of transport were public transport (16%), walking (7%), (motor)cycling (4%), […]
Tuesday, the first four charging points of the new Brussels charging network ‘Charge.Brussels’ have been inaugurated in Evere. In the next few years, concession holder PitPoint will roll out some hundred other stations to provide 100% green electricity to Brussels […]
Almost 180.000 people in Belgium are using shared cars, the number of users tripled in three years. In Flanders the number of users went up with 250%, in Brussels even with 350%, according to figures from the Flemish Network for […]
According to data from the buses and coaches Belgian Federation (FBAA), the coach travel sector is growing with a tourism trip market share of 7,2% in 2017. Stays of more than three nights and grouped tours represent the major part […]
With the elections approaching, traffic safety institute, Vias, is calling on politicians through a ten-point program to make traffic in Belgium drastically safer. The most striking proposals are an obligation for bicycle helmets for children younger than 14, an alcohol […]
The new ‘manyways.be’ website shows various mobility data from Brussels, which are brought to life on an interactive map and a real-time dashboard. These open data allow us to make the ideal mobility choice in terms of traffic density, weather […]
People living in and around Paris are getting sick more rapidly than other French citizens. An explanation for this phenomenon is noise pollution. Real nuisance Paris has three airports, 1.700 km of asphalt, 7 train stations and 16 subway lines. […]
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