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The Flemish public transport company, De Lijn, is investigating whether tickets should be more expensive during peak hours and cheaper during off-peak hours. Sources within the company report this. To be clear: it is only about tickets, not subscriptions. For […]
The 70-year-old Van Mossel Automotive Group, the car dealer giant (140 establishments) in The Netherlands, is going to sell trucks. The company always opted for autonomous growth and acquisitions. “Scale size is important,” says CEO Eric Berkhof. Expansion Holland has […]
For the first time in Wallonia, a device will be used that can measure the emissions of vehicles – CO, CO2, NOx, and particulates – on the road in real-time. A battery of smart cameras connected to the sensing device […]
Trendy vehicles, like e-scooters, hoverboards, or monowheels, were always forbidden on public roads in The Netherlands. Those vehicles had to comply with so many safety requirements that it was almost impossible for manufacturers to get permission for the road. The […]
The increasingly more popular Sports Utility Vehicles, the so-called SUVs, are the second most important source of air pollution in the world after the energy sector, but before heavy industry (like cement or steel), heavy trucks or aviation, Fatih Birol, […]
The Dutch government says there are 46.000 public and semi-public charging stations, as well as over 100.000 private ones in the country. It makes the country the European leader in the matter. Throughout the world, only China and the US […]
According to the recent report of the European Environmental Agency (EEA) (Europese Milieuagentschap), 400.000 Europeans will prematurely die as a consequence of air pollution. But in 1990 there were half a million more. Harmful substances The quality of the European […]
Freight transport by trucks and vans has a much higher impact on health costs than estimated so far in some parts of Brussels. This is the conclusion of a new study by the VUB on the share of freight transport […]
The city of Courtrai is showing off with a scoop: all citizens of Courtrai still have until Sunday to vote for the possible introduction of a monthly car-free Sunday in the city center. They can do this by using their […]
The electric car will spark a new electricity ecosystem open to a wide variety of producers. That’s the conclusion of an Accenture report, based on interviews with 6.000 Europeans and North-Americans. The company estimates the potential market in France will […]
Brussels orthopedists are raising the alarm: the number of fractures suffered in accidents with e-scooters and bicycles is exploding. To relieve the pressure on the standard emergency services, the Brussels hospitals of ‘Hôptiaux du Sud’ are setting up a specific […]
The number of bicycle shelters in Flanders is far from sufficient and, what’s more, they’re not easily accessible and not safe. The risk of theft is real. Every year 35.000 bicycles – 270 a day – are stolen in Belgium, […]
Brussels’ newly appointed Climate and Energy Minister, Alain Maron (Ecolo), explains the path for Brussels to become carbon neutral by 2050. More drastic insulation requirements will be imposed on housing, and a new road tax system favoring light and eco-cars […]
Each fine issued prevents about 50 new fines, as is the conclusion of a study by Libor Dusek and Christian Traxler, two Czech economists who received traffic data from traffic cameras gathered by the police in Ricany, a suburb of […]
The Netherlands is considering to lower the maximum speed on the highway to 100 km/hour to decrease the level of nitrogen in the air. Would this be a good idea for Belgium as well? Some, like Erik Grientens, are in […]
Bus traffic has to become more fluent in New York. That is why local authorities have decided to equip the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) buses with smart cameras. The cameras will register and film all vehicles on the bus lines […]
According to a report from the Consulting Committee for Rail Travelers (CCVF), Belgian rail manager, Infrabel, and operator, SNCB/NMBS, aren’t ready for the 2023 liberalization. The lack of investments, punctuality, or any shared vision is pointed out as significant issues. […]
Beci, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry, launch their ‘City Climate Challenge 303030’. With 30 projects elaborated between now and March next year, they want to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% before 2030. At the end of September, the president of […]
Dutch truck manufacturing company, DAF, is not a die-hard believer in the electric semi-truck, it told Dutch financial newspaper FD. It’s instead focusing on hybrid drivetrains today, with a combustion engine and electric motor. “Reliability takes precedence over rapid innovation,” […]
Two days after the introduction of the electric Bird scooters in Luxembourg, the city has threatened to remove them for safety reasons. Local authorities have reserved the right “to ban them if they occupy public space or endanger the safety […]
Alphabet daughter and autonomous car division Waymo has announced it will offer driverless taxi rides in Phoenix. In the last decade, the company has been experimenting with self-driving passenger cars in some outskirts of the city. Until now, there always […]
The Finnish fuel company, Neste, introduces renewable diesel to the Dutch market, which is made from offal. The fuel is cleaner than regular diesel and perfectly compatible with conventional engines. By being renewable, it reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 50 […]
From spring 2020, you will be able to wave-and-pay on every tram and bus in Flanders. In the course of next year, cash on trams and buses will even disappear completely. To this end, the Flemish public transport company, De […]
The French automotive group, Renault, gathers all its mobility activities under one roof with its new subsidiary, Renault Mobility As an Industry (Renault M.A.I.). The aim is to use the brand’s expertise in the mobility sector to make an industry […]
“Flanders will ‘probably’ not meet the set goals to reduce greenhouse gases,” the Climate Minister, Zuhal Demir (N-VA), said in the Flemish Parliament. The climate measures that Belgium has taken until now will not decrease the emissions of greenhouse gases. […]
The Flemish authorities have decided to replace 40 speed control cameras annually by average speed checks because they’re more efficient in the battle against speeding. The Agency for Roads and Traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer, AWV) has confirmed the plans. […]
According to a recent study by IBM, among 11.500 consumers, shortly, people won’t care anymore about which car brand they drive. Almost half of the interviewees (48%) state that by 2030, the costs of the car and the digital ease […]
Transporting parcels and goods by tram would be a good idea to release cities from traffic jams, but the solution seems to be far too expensive, for the time being. The road network around cities like Antwerp and Brussels is […]
Anyone who listens to music on a bicycle in traffic is up to ten times more likely to have an accident. Pedestrians and joggers are up to six times more at risk when wearing headphones. This is the conclusion of […]
The number of cars in The Netherlands has risen from 6,34 million in 2000 to over 8,5 million today. But many of those are older, second-hand cars. The average age of a car in The Netherlands today is 10,7 years, […]
The automotive company, VDL dcar, is suffering from the shrinking automotive industry. The company that only works for BMW is forced to drop 700 temporary jobs. The gradual dismissal will start in the week of November 4th and will stop […]
Last Monday, the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion, blocked the central axes in several capitals all over the world. Thousands of rebels gathered in the streets of Amsterdam, London, Berlin, and Madrid, but also in New-Zealand and Australia. Extinction Rebellion […]
Austrian public railway company, ÖBB, plans to start operating a night train between Brussels and Vienna as early as January. That’s what CEO Andreas Matthä said in an interview with the daily Wiener Zeitung on Sunday. A year later, a […]
Philippe Henry (Ecolo), Wallonia’s new Energy, Climate, and Mobility Minister, explains the different measures to be put up to reach the government’s climate objectives. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by 55%. Proposals include a new road tax […]
The number of air travelers worldwide will be doubled by 2035 to 8 billion passengers. So, where is the ‘flygskam’? But at the same time, the opposition against the noise, pollution and the nuisance, in general, will increase. According to […]
