The Netherlands is known for its high cycling shares and great cycling infrastructure. What many people less realize is the challenge to increase those shares even more to enhance cycling in the sustainability smart cities objectives. To push cycling to the next level a national collaboration has been set up to join forces in the field of cycling data collection, storage, visualisation and analyses. Next, cycling knowledge sharing between a variety of stakeholders, ranging from academic to highly applied level, is essential. This paper not only covers an overview of challenges of the national organisation and the development of a cycling data platform but also shows how European award winning best practises add to the smart city objectives in the Netherlands. Combining mobile phone data, GPS/GNSS data, traffic light data, national survey data, traffic forecast model data and virtual and augmented reality results in a joint approach to smart cycling cities and ITS cycling developments. These developments can lead to a greener mobility system, but if done wrongly eradicate the strengths of cycling in an autonomous-vehicle dominated city.

1. Cycling data as change agent
for sustainable mobility
Joost de Kruijf
Breda University of Applied sciences
4th June 2019 ITS Congress Eindhoven
Joost de Kruijf
Rick Lindeman

2. Content
 Cycling in NL
 Recent developments
 Cycling intelligence
 Real Time Data
 Challenges
 Concluding

3. Cycling in the
Netherlands
Amount of bicycles
outnumber the Dutch
inhabitants
Proportion of bicycles use as percentage
of total number of trips

4. Recent
governmental
developrnents
• Tour de Force
• SUMPS
• Cycling Highways
• Data to monitor measures
• Focus on ‘smart Mobility’

5. Cyling Intelligence
From data to information
and cycling policy decision
support
Interactive Cycling info dashboard
GPS and count data visualisation and analysis
Cycle Highway impact analysis

6. Real time data
& Bikes
Talking Traffic

7. Challenges
• Collection of Data
• Organisation
• Business Case
• Nature of Bicycles and Cyclists

8. Conclusion
• Rapid developments
• Redefining the smart city to embody
the city we actually want to live in
• Environmental impact (CO2)
• Happyness

9. Looking at the actual behaviour of cyclists
will not only learn us more about their
preferences,
it also enables us to make the switch to
customer friendly cycle policy
4th June 2019 ITS Congress Eindhoven
Joost de Kruijf
Rick Lindeman