Bus Depots of the Future: From Parking Lots to Strategic Assets
Bus depots are no longer just places to park and refuel buses. The shift to electric fleets, driver shortages, and new mobility models are transforming depots into strategic assets that enable transport operators to improve their business models and scale their fleets. In this insight, Bax Public Mobility Consultants Giel Mertens and Merlijn Zurek explore […]
Bax positions itself at the forefront of challenge-driven urban innovation with DUT partnership
Bax recently confirmed its commitment to progressing Europe’s sustainable urban future with the launch of a four-year collaboration with the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership. The DUT Partnership is an intergovernmental research and innovation programme supporting much-needed urban transformation processes across Europe. It aims to strengthen capacities and tools to make urban change happen and […]
Human-centric urban design and active mobility create liveable cities
Written by Jamie Coles Imagine a city. What do you see? Tower blocks, perhaps, cutting through the sky. Perhaps a grid of tarmac—streets choked with the droning of car traffic. But consider the spaces between these blocks—the parks that soak up rainwater to prevent floods, shaded paths that cool the air, mitigating urban heat islands. […]
Illuminating the paths to green logistics while leaving no one behind
Public authorities have been trialing solutions to decarbonise logistics and transport for years. However, the implementation thus far has often been experimental, without clear frameworks for large-scale rollout. A consequence of bolder and larger-scale policies is that many businesses will lose access to cities. The GLEAM NSR project directly addresses these challenges by supporting cities […]
Putting people at the heart of urban mobility
Active ways of getting from A to B like walking and cycling are low-cost, healthy, and sustainable. But towns and cities are not always designed to promote active travel. To find people-first solutions to the way we move around cities, Bax is supporting eight cities to pilot new solutions as part of the Active Cities […]
How can we make electric mobility more sustainable? Four circular business models for the reverse logistics of EV batteries
This is an extended version of the article originally published on EIT’s Mobility Innovation Marketplace. The electric mobility revolution needs its own ‘fuel’ – millions of batteries made up of tonnes of scarce raw materials. Fortunately, unlike oil, this fuel can be kept in the loop. In this article, Bax Battery Circularity Specialist Piotr Grudzień […]
Hamburg is making public transport available everywhere within 5 minutes using autonomous mobility
The City of Hamburg wants public transport to be accessible within 5 minutes everywhere by 2030. This vision requires up to 10,000 new vehicles, which with conventional vehicles would mean 10,000 new drivers. But faced with an ongoing driver shortage, Hamburg is exploring autonomous options to fulfil its ambition for one of the highest-quality public […]
SCAPE: Pioneering sustainable mobility with next-gen electric vehicles
In the pursuit of a greener and more sustainable future, the European Union is backing a ground-breaking project that aims to reshape the landscape of electric vehicles (EVs). SCAPE (Switching-Cell-Array-based Power Electronics conversion for future electric vehicles) brings together a dynamic consortium of nine partners, of which Bax is proud to participate, to embark on […]
Citizen movements reclaiming space for bikes in cities
Walk around Barcelona on a Friday morning and you’ll probably come across a bunch of kids on bikes (and other wheels) who take over the city’s streets. Escorted by their parents, volunteers, and sometimes the police, they get to school in a healthier and more sustainable manner. Barcelona has a long history of citizen movements […]
Why Europe’s towns and cities need a long-term roadmap for automated public mobility
Chronic bus driver shortages across Europe are threatening to push mobility transition goals off the road. Recent leaps in automated mobility technology could lead the way to low-marginal cost, high-frequency demand-responsive solutions. But where does this automation fit in a city’s mobility strategy and practical planning? Over the past six years, consultants of Bax spin-off […]
How we deployed autonomous vehicles across Europe in 2022
2022 was the year that Bax spin-off Pendel’s autonomous mobility service hit the road and showed public authorities and site operators what autonomous vehicles can really do. On a sunny morning in May 2022, a bus drove its passengers from the car park of the Port of Barcelona’s headquarters to the doors of the offices. It […]
Did shared mobility pilots reduce CO2 emissions and car usage in the five MOBI-MIX cities?
The Interreg 2Seas project, MOBI-MIX, has shown in the past three and a half years that shared mobility can bring numerous advantages if cities nurture collaboration with private mobility providers and together seek to continuously improve services. Partner cities have experimented with various solutions, such as Mobility as a Service (Antwerp), mobility hubs (Norfolk, Valenciennes), shared cars […]
Connectivity, Mobility, and Healthy Cities
The Healthy Cities Network aims to deepen the relationship between health and the urban environment, following a holistic approach by focusing on three overarching topics: greening and landscaping, mobility and connectivity, and lifestyle and sports. To gather expert advice for urban planners on improving health outcomes in cities, we are creating a series of three […]
Crowd data can improve city services, efficiency, and quality of life. Ghent’s Justine Ottevaere explains why.
Crowd monitoring in cities gained considerable attention with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The City of Ghent, however, was a step ahead, as they were already working with crowd data well before the start of the pandemic in 2020. To understand how and why cities should strategically look at crowd data, we interviewed Justine […]
Improving public-private collaboration in cities
As people develop new ways to navigate their urban environments, Shared Mobility and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) are becoming increasingly popular. Today, many options for these services are available such as carsharing, bike sharing, scooter sharing, autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing, and Mobility as a Service (MaaS). These applications allow users to access and pay for a […]
Major milestone reached in automotive lightweighting research
September 2016 marked a major milestone in automotive lightweighting research in Europe, with the completion of the 4-year R&D work of the EU-funded ALIVE and ENLIGHT projects (FP7 programme). At the same moment, in October, the new large-scale H2020 project “ALLIANCE” launched which will carry on the advancement of innovation in this field for the […]
