Although last year less motorbikes were sold, sales went up the first three months of 2018 with 6%, as is stated by Belgian sector federation Febiac. A remarkable detail: growth is mainly concentrated in provinces with lots of mobility problems. […]
Dutch manufacturer 2GetThere is going to build a self-driving bus for Brussels Airport. Tests with the bus are planned by 2020, first passengers would be allowed as from 2021. The driver-less bus will take visitors from the national airport to […]
Pascal Smet (sp.a), highly debated Brussels Minister for Mobility and Public Works, diabolized by the taxi sector and even by his own Minister President, wants to prime a new Brussels movement beyond party boundaries, for mobility but also broader ‘citizen’ […]
The Walloon government has freed a 400.000 euro budget to develop the charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles. Goal is to have almost 10.000 electrical vehicles on the road by 2020, able to charge their batteries on the public roads in […]
In the wake of the dieselgate scandal the European Parliament has come to an agreement on the new type of approval for passenger cars in the EU and also on a better control of already approved cars. An independent European […]
Young Germans, especially those between 18 and 25 years old living in urban areas with more than 100.000 inhabitants, are no longer eager to own a car. While in general 73% of the German population thinks owning a car is […]
July 1st Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB will inaugurate the new ‘full electric’ bus line 33, connecting the Brussels uptown and downtown, from Dansaert, over Grote Markt, to Louiza. The buses on the line will be the recently bought Polish Solaris […]
The West Flanders’ province’s Testkaravaan (Test Convoy) to offer employees the opportunity to try out several sustainable alternatives for commuting from home to work, has convinced upon 40% of participating workers to keep on using these alternatives afterwards. As the […]
Arval, the leasing branch of the BNP Parisbas Fortis bank, launches its mobility card to offer employees a sustainable alternative for – or at least in combination with – a leased company car, after the example of pioneers like Q8, […]
Within 5 years China wants to abolish the restrictions forbidding foreign car manufacturers to control their local companies in the country, a move that is welcomed by almost all foreign trade partners. For manufacturing electric cars, restrictions will be already […]
Flanders would like to take over the blue shared bikes of Belgian railway company NMBS/SNCB but the constant bickering about the property on which the distribution centres for the bikes are situated are slowing down Blue-bike’s development plans. De Lijn […]
Five thousand people have participated in ‘Mobile Monday’, an initiative of Flemish public transport company De Lijn. The idea is to choose for alternative transport instead of the car at least once a week to tackle traffic jams. The company […]
Belgium has officially started the screening of flying passengers, a measure that fits in the context of fighting crime and terrorism. Today one-third is already screened but this should soon go up to 60% and later on to 100%. International […]
Flemish opposition party sp.a proposes to provide a 1.000 euro premium for people willing to have their old polluting car scrapped. “Mostly old diesels without a soot filter”, explains Sp.a leader Joris Vandenbroucke. “They are emitting unhealthy soot, particles and […]
Wallonia will soon dispose of 120 new charging stations for electric vehicles. Walloon Minister of Energy, Jean-Luc Crucke (MR), has put the issue on the coming order of the day for the Walloon government on Thursday. Only 280 charging points […]
Belgian railroad company NMBS/SNCB is planning to install concrete blocks at the entrance of 22 of the bigger railway stations in the country. “The preventive measure is meant to complicate access to the stations”, says NMBS/SNCB’s spokesman Bart Crols. He […]
The Flemish green party Groen wants to free big parts of the Antwerp inner city from cars and give priority to bikes, as was announced by Wouter Van Besien, candidate-mayor for Antwerp at the next local elections (October 2018). In […]
Belgian railway company NMBS/SNCB is planning to sell the old coal railway in Limburg, more specific, line 21a going from As via Dilsen-Stokkem to Maaseik (Limburg, Belgium), and line 21b going from Genk via As to Eisden (Limburg, Belgium). The […]
On Thursday in Antwerp Swapfiets (Swap-bike) was launched, a new bicycle system, based on the principle of personal leasing. The concept comes from the Netherlands, where Swapfiets already has 33.000 clients and was nominated ‘Dutch start-up of the Year’. It […]
Car sickness is one of the most frequently occurring forms of motion sickness or kinetosis, as the illness is called in medical terms. With the advent of autonomous driving cars people will be more prone to car sickness because they […]
Dutch railway company Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has released its app to inform passengers whether a train is crowded or not, as was announced in July 2017. Travelers can see on their smartphone in which carriage there still are empty seats […]
Death toll since 2010 in Europe went down with one fifth, in Belgium the number of people killed in traffic accidents decreased from 77 to 55 but is still higher than the European average. Last year 25.300 people lost their […]
With the technical face-lift of the popular Outlander PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) Mitsubishi has announced to aim for an entire energy network, including home, office, loading station and the grid. The substantial technical update of the Outlander PHEV announced at […]
Ride-hailing company Uber is taking over shared-bicycle company Jump Mobility, a start-up offering 12.000 electric shared-bicycles in 40 cities in the US. The free-floating bicycles can be left anywhere in the city and are unlocked by an app. No surprise […]
Poppy, the young free-floating car-sharing service in Antwerp supported by D’Ieteren with a fleet of 350 mixed electric and CNG cars, is sharpening its rental conditions to tackle growing misuse and vandalism. Other free-floating car-sharing companies learned the hard way […]
The scarcer the space, the more you pay for it, and prices for parking space differ a lot in the Netherlands, depending on the city or region you’re living in. This seems to be the conclusion of a study executed […]
Bicycle highways are not only a valuable alternative for commuting, they’re also a way of escaping from air pollution, as is the conclusion of researcher Jelle Hofman. Hofman lives in Kontich and works in Antwerp and between January and March […]
In Belgium the sales of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) are still growing. Where 30% of all sold cars in 2017 were SUVs, this could easily grow to 35% this year. The sales results of the first quarter of this year […]
As from Monday the Agency for Roads and Traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer) will start with the preparation for the building of rush-hour lanes on some of the acceleration and deceleration lanes in Lummen. Rush-hour lanes are extra lanes that […]
The airport of Ostend, together with airline company TUI, has inaugurated a new departure hall on Thursday, in the presence of Flemish Mobility Minister Ben Weyts (N-VA) and Flemish Minister for Energy Bart Tommelein (Open Vld). Unique aspect of the […]
Flying is environmentally unfriendly. Still we all fly more often and even cheaper than ever. A group of Belgian environment-minded friends started a sensitizing campaign, promoting a ‘summer without flying’, to do something about it. Impact of flying They want […]
Families with young children can borrow child’s bikes in the Fietsbieb in Diepenbeek (Belgium). A laudable initiative of Beweging.net Limburg (Movement Limburg), because “children are growing fast and before they reach the age of 12 they already have had at […]
More people are pronounced physically unfit to drive a car, according to Belgian traffic safety institute Vias. A tough and painful verdict, especially for elderly people, because for them mobility is part of their quality of life. People growing older […]
The way Low Emission Zones (LEZ) are organized at this moment isn’t very effective to reduce toxic emissions. That’s the conclusion of Nils Hooftman (MOBI-Brussels University VUB) after studying the research material on different European cities. In Low Emission Zones […]
With 20,9% of Walloon employees working at home and 20% in Brussels, the French-speaking part of Belgium is more into teleworking than the Dutch-speaking in Flanders, with only 15%. Teleworking can have a major impact on mobility during rush hours, […]
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