clean and non-motorised transport

In Vienna 39 % of all journeys are made by public transport – more than elsewhere in Europe. Car-free residential zones have a long tradition here. The city’s first car-free residential complex with at total of 244 rental apartments was opened back in 1999. The pilot project “model car-free housing project“ is an alternative for residents willing to live without a car of their own. What makes the development so special is that, upon signing their rental agreements, tenants commit themselves to giving up their own car.

A Wiener Stadtwerke project is bringing hundreds of eTaxis to Vienna’s streets from March 2016. waff and AMS are assisting with the search for taxi drivers. Wiener Stadtwerke’s eTaxi project has won an Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) tender and is one of the world’s largest e-taxi projects. In two years’ time, a total of 250 eTaxis will be on Vienna’s roads. This represents almost double the electric cars registered in Vienna and around five percent of all Vienna’s taxis.

EYES-FREE NAVIGATION: Navigate with eyes-free turn-by-turn directions at your fingertips – smrtGRiPS’ haptic technology puts the power to know where to go in your hands. Turn-by- turn directions are communicated through your left and right grips. The right grip vibrates signaling you to turn right, or the left grip for a left turn. BIKE FINDER: With the smrtGRiPS app for iPhone and Android, you can quickly locate your bike using the distance indicator or by tapping the “Ring your ride” button that causes your bike to immediately signal its location.

The Copenhagen Wheel transforms your bicycle into a smart electric hybrid, quickly and easily. The Wheel contains a motor, batteries, multiple sensors, wireless connectivity, and an embedded control system.

‘Rekola’ (could be translated as rebike) is a community bikesharing. It’s a very recent project which started in April 2014 and initiated by two young men from association Rekola.cz. They are using old bicycles which are repaired and painted in pink. It’s for everyone, without any bike stands, just find a bike in one of four Czech cities – Prague, Brno, Olomouc and Pardubice – and go! How does it work? Every rider has a mobile phone application where he or she can see the availability of pink bikes near their surroundings.

A free public bicycle system started with an approach integrating universities and mass transit, along with other key destinations of the city to serve tourists.

Copenhagen Super Bikeways are a network of bikeways under development in the periphery of Copenhagen, Denmark. A collaboration between Copenhagen Municipality and 18 surrounding municipalities in Greater Copenhagen. The objective is to facilitate and increase commuting by bicycle.

Smart motorways and expressways: Over the coming years, a national spine of smart motorways will add more than 400 miles of extra capacity to our highways. And we’ll introduce a new standard for A roads, known as ‘expressways’: with modernised junctions, refuge areas and specialist technology to quickly detect incidents and get traffic moving again. Unblocking bottlenecks: We’ll tackle congestion hotspots across the country, ranging from improving the A14, to progressing plans for a new lower Thames crossing. Safer roads: Our roads are already some of the safest in the world.

A lot has been written about intelligent highways since the eighties. However, until now the focus of innovation was on the car. Heijmans and Studio Roosegaarde tackle this issue on a large scale by innovating the road deck with designs such as ‘Glow-in-the-dark Lining’, ‘Dynamic Paint’, ‘Interactive Light’ and ‘Electric Priority Lane’. Together they want to make the road sustainable and interactive through means of smart lighting, harvesting energy, and traffic signs that adapt to the road situation.

Design of EV charging station whose supply source is regenerative braking system embedded in rolling stock. Power electronics enable to integrate the recovered electricity and control the transformation centre in appropriate way. In parallel, commuters may combine both road transportation means with railway for different purposes (urban routes, long distance) by using EVs.