Oplossing voor first en last mile
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Oplossing voor first en last mile
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Witkar brengt je op plaatsen waar het openbaar vervoer niet rijdt, de zogenaamde first mile en last mile. Witkar is een systeem van deelvoertuigen. Witkar rijdt op veilige stads- snelheid en is geschikt voor individueel vervoer.
Het voertuig heeft geen wachttijden en is daarmee op de korte afstand toch snel. Witkar heeft een netwerksysteem, geen stelsel van lijnen. De gebruiker rijdt rechtstreeks naar de hub van bestemming en hoeft dus niet over te stappen. Doordat het individueel is, is het geschikt voor gebieden met weinig vervoer. Het OV en Witkar vullen elkaar dus perfect aan.
Witkar heeft een trapgenerator waarmee je de snelheid van de elektromotor aangeeft. De overkapping kun je zelf openen en sluiten.
In een Witkar-hub is ruimte voor meerdere deelvervoermiddelen zoals OV-fiets, Felyx of Biro. Witkarren gebruiken 25% van de ruimte die auto’s innemen.
Witkar is in 1974 gestart op initiatief van Luud Schimmelpennink.
Een prototype van de nieuwe Witkar wordt op dit moment ontwikkeld.
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On December 18, join us for an evening in Amsterdam where we talk about Speed and Safety in cities. Do safer vehicles make us forget the need for safer streets?
Townmaking Institute in collaboration with Gemeente Amsterdam
In conversation with
Carl Honoré: Writer, speaker, broadcaster, advocate of the Slow Movement
Luca Bertolini: Professor of Urban Planning UvA
Onno Kramer: Head Collection Management at Accel
Vehicle speeds, whether cars, trucks, or e-bikes, profoundly affect our experience of cities. What feels too fast or too slow often depends on the place we occupy in traffic: a pedestrian may feel endangered by a motorist’s speed, while the motorist simply wants to reach their destination.
Traditionally, fixed speed limits have been the solution, but these don’t account for the dynamic nature of urban spaces, nor the emergence of new vehicle types. Unsafe streets push people into safer vehicles, but in doing so, we risk neglecting making safer streets.
To create safer, more livable streets, we need to rethink our approach to speed regulation, considering the evolving complexity of urban life.
This event marks the start of our journey towards the Speed Summit in 2025. The conversation opens with Carl Honoré, Luca Bertolini, and Onno Kramer exploring what should come first for liveable cities: safe streets or safe vehicles.
Event Details:
Wednesday, 18th December 2024
At 20:00 hours.
Grote Zaal, Pakhuis de Zwijger,
Piet Heinkade 179,
1019 HC Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Townmaking Podcasts.
Listen to the Townmaking episodes to dive deeper into the ideas that help shape the conversation.
https://www.townmaking.com/search/cls-townmaking-podcasts/cnt-s1e7-speed-liveability-and-safety
This free of charge training will be given in Dutch!
Protect your ideas and strengthen your competitive advantage with the basic Intellectual Property Rights training.
What will you learn during the training?
- Introduction to different IP rights: get a clear understanding of the IP rights that protect you.
- Real-life examples of collaboration and ownership: Learn how IP rights work in collaborations.
- Freedom to operate: discover how to preserve room to innovate without legal risks.
- The value of technical details in patent publications: Understand how these details give you an advantage in the market.
When: Monday, 9 December 2024 15.30 - 18.00
Location: Ondernemersplein Almere (cityhal Almere), Stadhuisplein 1, 1315HR Almere
During our Knowledge and Demo Day on 10 October (2024), Guus Kruijssen and Rombout Huisman (Province of North Holland) led a working session on their recent scenario studies – Smart Mobility North Holland 2050. In this report, I will share the four ‘Context’ scenarios they developed, the process, and the discussions with the session participants.
What do we actually mean by future visions and scenarios? What are the different types, and how can they be used? A discussion among the participants quickly highlighted the many different motivations, forms, and use cases. Rombout and Guus began by explaining their aim for this study.
The province of North Holland plays various roles in the field of mobility as a policymaker, road manager, and concession provider. Given the major challenges related to housing, CO2 emissions reduction, and road safety, their perspective on the future of mobility revolves around Reducing (travel), Improving (travel options), and Changing (travel behaviour). This perspective forms the basis for developing, operationalising, and maintaining their strategy – a cycle that spans approximately 50 years. However, digital developments and innovations are making the world change faster than ever, necessitating greater awareness of possible contextual changes. The key question is: how do the choices we make now relate to the different possible futures?
To explore this, a team of colleagues embarked on developing four challenging context scenarios. Working with internal and external experts, they moved from an environmental analysis and contextual factors to scenarios and strategic insights. The process and outcomes were kept administrative and had no political or policy-driven focus. The result is not a set of visions to choose from but rather a representation of various developments and challenges that may arise, to which you can assess your own projects and actions against.
Four distinct context scenarios were developed. Here is a summary and a few key aspects of each:
Rombout and Guus guided the group through the process and results of these scenario studies. We discussed the developments and contextual factors used in the study, and considered if anything was missing. They openly shared their approach and how they plan to use these insights to assess their own policies and projects, and welcomed questions and suggestions from the group. There was also room for discussing the challenges. Because, while people can easily align on scenarios, opinions can still vary greatly on how we should act on them now.
Many of our partners are already working with future visions and scenarios. See, for instance, our report on a session with trendwatchers from the Municipality of Amsterdam. The purpose, process, and impact on policy, projects, and actions vary across organisations. However, there was agreement that sharing methods and scenarios is valued, particularly in a neutral setting like our innovation network. It fosters mutual understanding and offers valuable lessons from each other's research methods and practical applications. In the coming period, we will explore how we can contribute to this in our network on various transition themes.
Would you like to know more about this study from the Province of North Holland? Feel free to send me a message, and I will connect you. Interested in brainstorming about how we can approach this more frequently or systematically within the network? Let me know at pelle@amsterdaminchange.com.
Hai Luud en Hans, Lijkt mij een heel interessant project (witkar of ELF) om als recreatieve verbinding zoals bijvoorbeeld in het groengebied DeBretten, tussen Sloterdijk Centrum en Het Laatste Huis. https://www.amsterdam.nl/toerisme-vrije-tijd/parken/bretten/denk-mee-toekomst-bretten/
Hallo Luud,
leuk om weer van witkar te horen.
ik heb de oude witkarpas nog steeds, ging regelmatig rijden vanaf Elandsgracht. Heb paar jaar geleden nog geprobeerd om de ELF van Organic TransIT https://organictransit.com/ naar Almere te krijgen, 2 ELFs rijden nu nog in Almere.
Misschien kan ik iets voor je betekenen rondom de verwerking van de data.