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Perspectives and analysis on mobility, infrastructure, and connected transport from the Be-Mobile team.
Operating Design Domains and pick-up locations: who decides where autonomous vehicles drive and stop?
Operating Design Domains and pick-up locations decide where autonomous vehicles drive and stop. What road authorities need to be able to do, seen from China.
Nicolas Talpe — Managing Director Be-Warned
"The self-driving car is not happening in the near future"
The self-driving car is still to come, but the connected car is gradually becoming a reality. Be-Mobile Innovation Director Bart Lannoo explains why full autonomy may take until 2040 or 2050.
Bart Van Moerkerke — Journalist
Mobilidata: how data can make our traffic greener
Be-Mobile CEO Jan Cools on how the Flemish Mobilidata project, including 350 intelligent traffic lights, uses connected vehicles and infrastructure to make traffic in Flanders safer and greener.
Jan Cools — CEO
Smart cities are not as futuristic as they are suggested to be
Smart cities are not at all as futuristic as sometimes assumed, says Flitsmeister's Jorn de Vries.
Jorn de Vries — Managing Meister at Flitsmeister
The evolution and future developments of GNSS tolling
It is time to establish industry standards and create uniformity among tolling stakeholders.
Kirsten Velghe — Marketing
Why C-ITS is the next logical step in traffic
In times of advanced technologies and an ambitious vision on the future of mobility, roadside infrastructure still remains the most widely used technique in traffic management. Toll gantries, variable message signs and barriers are filling the streets, while they each have a perfectly finetuned software alternative: think of GNSS tolling, C-ITS and ANPR. So is it wise to keep investing in hardware? Is it durable? In the end, the investment cost in hardware can amount up to three times as much: from purchase to installation, maintenance and finally, replacement. It is unquestionable that C-ITS technology cuts the costs, but it also gets the information to the driver faster and improves both road safety and driving comfort. Equally significant, it will make the transition towards autonomous driving smoother. But most importantly, the ultimate upside to C-ITS is that it allows road operators to do traffic management directly in the dashboard of the car.
Bart Lannoo — Innovation Director