With strong residual values, low running costs and growing charging facilities, the electric car is starting to make more sense to fleet managers. According to leasing companies, the only real hindrance for employees and employers is a psychological one. With […]
Uber as well as rival Lyft are preparing to go public. The first is planning to do this fairly soon and be first on the stock market in the first quarter of next year, while Lyft is aiming for the […]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year 1,35 million people worldwide are getting killed in a traffic accident. More than one quarter of it are bike-riders and pedestrians, as was communicated by the WHO on Sunday in Geneva. […]
In January, the 97th edition of the Brussels Motor Show will take place (18 – 27 January) in Brussels Expo. Unlike other Motor Shows in Europe, Brussels keeps on seducing all brands as this is a ‘sales show’ in the […]
Provinces, municipalities, the cabinet and social organizations in the Netherlands are going to cooperate to improve traffic safety, as was announced on Thursday. Goals is zero deaths by 2030. The decision is taken because the decrease of the number of […]
Polly, an Israeli app that calls itself ‘the Waze of parking’, is now available in Brussels and will soon be coming to Antwerp, Malines and Ghent. Polly leads the driver to a likely free parking spot on the street or […]
Yesterday, Walloon Minister, Willy Borsus (MR), inaugurated the first CNG filling station of the Luxembourg Province, located on the Molinfaing industrial estate in Neufchâteau. Next year, two other stations should be opened in Arlon and Marche. By 2020, Belgium plans […]
American Waymo is the first company in the world to have launched a paid taxi service with autonomous cars. On Wednesday, the first passengers stepped into a robot taxi in Phoenix (Arizona, US). Although the taxis are self-driving, there is […]
Wearing airbag vests could prevent 10% of road deaths and many more serious injuries among motorcyclists. The French road safety organization, Sécurité Routière, is launching a campaign in this Advent to raise awareness of these airbags for motorcycles. Airbag jacket […]
French car maker, Renault, is starting a free-floating car sharing service with 200 electric Zoe cars in Amsterdam by January 2019. If the new service – a name has to be chosen yet – is successful, Renault will extend its […]
The so-called ‘Japanese crossing square’ at the Dusart bus stop in Hasselt (Belgium) has received a positive evaluation, although some changes will be made. The special organization at the large crossing square, where pedestrians coming from different directions can cross […]
In the presence of Flemish Mobility Minister, Ben Weyts (N-VA), local authorities of Glabbeek (Vlaams Brabant province, Belgium) have inaugurated a so-called ‘mobility point’ on Tuesday. The mobility point, or shortly ‘mobi-point’ is situated nearby a bus stop and consists […]
Thirty new routes for super-trucks or ecocombis that connect to Flemish motorways have just been approved. That reports the Agency for Roads and Traffic (AWV). “Only the safest routes haven been selected”, the Flemish authorities say. Short history In mid-2014, […]
The new double-decker trains of the NMBS/SNCB are not available yet. In 2015, the Belgian public railway company placed an order of 1,3 billion euro with the Bombardier-Alstom consortium for 445 new wagons and locomotives that normally had to be […]
According to a survey by the VRT news website, companies are far from keen on offering their employees a speed pedelec for commuting. They consider the risk of a serious accident too high. ‘Normal’ e-bike is booming That is why […]
The city of Antwerp is planning to forbid all parking within the inner-city (within De Leien) for visitors and reserve the right to park on the street to residents only. That would mean all parking metres to disappear and visitors […]
Belgian Federal Finance Minister, Johan Van Overtveldt (N-VA) is going to take reprisals against the use of the so-called ‘red’ diesel as fuel for cars. The increased diesel prices are one of the frustrations of the ‘yellow jacket’ demonstrations in […]
Buses of the Flemish public transport company De Lijn will depart again from Brussels North Station on Friday. After “constructive consultations with all parties concerned, there are sufficient guarantees to lift the temporary stop near the station, the transport company […]
After Moovin (Renault and Ada), it’s time for PSA to unleash its fleet of shared Free2Move cars in Paris on the ruins of Autolib’. The latter left 150.000 clients orphaned after Paris and the mixed syndicate chairs pulled the plug […]
Yesterday, the Luxembourg government announced that the country’s public transport will become completely free. The country took example on Switzerland and Estonia even though the latter’s model hasn’t shown any real change in citizen’s behaviour. Each one after the other, […]
According to Geert De Rycke, head of the Electromechanics and Telematica department of the agency for roads and traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer), about 150 of the 1.700 crossings with traffic lights could qualify for the introduction of the so-called […]
From 2019 onward, Belgian employees can choose for a mobility budget instead of the classic company car, but (too?) stringent emission limits are endangering the success of the formula. After the ‘cash for car’ settlement, where an employee drops his […]
‘Charging station clingers’, they are the new plague of electric drivers: cars that occupy a charging station for hours while their batteries are already charged. This frustrates other drivers with a nearly empty battery who can’t find a charging station […]
Since the introduction of the ‘Smart to Antwerp’ mobility project (Slim naar Antwerpen), the use of the car for commuting has decreased significantly. In 26 of the Antwerp companies participating in the project car use went down from 64% tot […]
By 2023, Brussels will be equipped with a dedicated cycling path separated from cars that will follow the inner ring road. Eight zones have been marked out, for which the Region already has the construction permits. This should make cycling […]
The number of lease bicycles is growing exponentially. Especially the electric bicycle is more and more popular as a means of transport and a kind of reward. Alternative for car and train Companies and commuters are keen on the alternative […]
Belgium is moving toward a reform of the famous ‘cliquet’ system. A political discussion should determine whether it will still be useful in the future because the current mechanism is primarily intended to standardize gasoline and diesel prices, which is […]
In a survey conducted last year by Belgian rail company, NMBS/SNCB, among 4.400 passengers, barely 60,9% gave the company an overall score of 7 out of 10 or more. This is a decrease of almost 5% compared to 2016 and […]
Bank and insurance company, KBC, is starting with the sales of train tickets via its own mobile app. With the app, travellers can also consult the timetable of trains. Next year KBC wants to add extra mobility options, like offering […]
The Belgian motorcycle park climbs towards 500.000 motorcycles and scooters because more and more motorists are tired of traffic jams. At the end of August, 26% more motorcycles were registered compared to 2008. According to Febiac (Belgian automotive and two-wheeler […]
The Flemish government will centralize all its traffic data in one platform. This platform, called ‘Mobility-data’, should benefit external apps, such as Waze, Coyote or TomTom, with more and better information, and that in turn should lead to better traffic flow […]
According to the German court in Augsburg, Volkswagen has to pay back the original purchase price of a VW Golf from 2012. The court judged that Volkswagen had acted immorally by using illegal emissions-cheating software. By doing so, the car […]
Today the French minister of Transport, Elisabeth Borne, launches the government’s legislation project on the future orientation of mobility (LOM). It wants to get better air quality, integrate new technologies and plan new infrastructures. It will be presented to the […]
Electric bicycles, electric wheelchairs or scootmobiles or monowheels and other individual transport means with a maximum speed of 25 km/h will be exempted from the legal liability insurance for motor vehicles, has announced Minister for Consumer Affairs, Kris Peeters (CD&V). […]
The Dutch start-up swap bike (Swapfiets) has officially entered Brussels on Thursday. It is the fourth Belgian city after Louvain, Ghent and Antwerp where the recognizable blue bikes will be visible in the streets. Alderman of Mobility, Els Ampe, welcomed […]
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