MegaBITS News

The smart locking station Locky was claimed as winner of the Smart Pedal Pitch 2024, hosted during Velo-city, one of the world’s biggest annual cycling conferences, bringing together policy makers, advocates and cycling industry representatives for more cycle-friendly cities....

We caught up with Renske Graafland, the project manager of Province of Overijssel, MegaBITS' Lead Partner. We asked her about the goals, developments and benefits of the three MegaBITS implementation overseen by the Province. Read the full interview below....

BITS took home a REGIOSTARS Award for its ground-breaking work in making cycling smarter, safer, and more enjoyable. As the digital layer in mobility and transport becomes ubiquitous, the cycling industry is developing new products and services that leverage this for an improved cycling experience.&...

At a recent session at the ITS World Congress in Dubai Jørgen Wanscher (Hermes Traffic Intelligence) and Christina Mose (Head of the Traffic Department in the City of Copenhagen) highlighted the importance of equal data collection for both cars and bicycles in the city. ...

The report "Shared Ambition 2024" by Cycling Industries Europe (CIE) and supported by the MegaBITS project offers an in-depth benchmarking study on bike sharing across 148 strategic European cities. The aim is to assess the performance of bike-sharing schemes in the context of urban mobility, climat...

The Bicycles and Intelligent Transport Systems (BITS) project, the predecessor of the current MegaBITS project, has been nominated for Europe’s Regiostars Award and you can help the project win! ...

MegaBITS partner Cycling Industries Europe (CIE) is pleased to announce its participation in the European Commission's ITS Advisory Group, a strategic platform under DG Move. The ITS Advisory Group is instrumental in guiding the implementation of the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Directive, a...

In its latest call for projects, EIT Urban Mobility is looking to support the European cycling industry via a funded call to “promote a competitive and sustainable European cycling industry”. Further to input from CIE, Topic 4 of this call aims to support the cycling industry in a number of areas, s...

The NAPCORE Taskforce on Cycling Data, alongside the Cycling Ambassadors, is excited to announce a series of online workshops dedicated to exploring the role of data in improving cycling infrastructure. These workshops will focus on the use cases and data types needed to enhance cycling experiences...