Eindhoven

Eindhoven, the fifth largest city of The Netherlands, is a centre for innovation and technology.

Located in the province of North Brabant in the south Netherlands, it is infamous as a technology and design hub, it’s the birthplace of Philips electronics, which built the Philips Stadium, home to the PSV soccer team.

However, one of the consequences of this success is the growing supply of traffic and the increasing pollution of Eindhoven’s air quality; which the city is actively addressing across a range of initiatives, projects and policy agendas.

This includes, tackling existing bottlenecks and absorb new mobility by investing in the public transport system leap (rail, public transport, hubs), bicycle/cycling facilities (driving and parking), cycle routes, smart lanes, slow lanes, /location policy, intelligent traffic management (C-ITS) and from there on in behavioral change, employer approach, mobility as a service, shared mobility and smart logistics.

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One of the first transport measures were to plan and implement the realization of free bus lanes. Notwithstanding the fact that this measure as such created faster movement of buses to and through the city (center), the use of public bus transport kept decreasing.

The city has also led the way developing new platforms for data collection and sharing. Along with fellow POLIS members Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Rotterdam, the city helped developed a first version of the City Data Standard - Mobility (CDS-M), an open data standard for data exchange between cities and shared mobility operators- supporting cities across Europe in their own efforts to enhance public-private collaboration.

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Shared mobility has also been a focus. In April 2019, Eindhoven started organising shared mobility in the city. The Share Mobility Agenda sets out how Eindhoven deals with shared mobility as part of a wider modal shift.

Public transport in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) is well organised. From Eindhoven Central station, it is possible to reach Amsterdam or The Hague in less than two hours. City and regional buses are also available from the same central station from early in the morning to late at night. Most bus stops have a display with accurate time information. Eindhoven also an advanced bus with its own bus lane (the ‘Phileas’) that connects Eindhoven Airport with the Central Station.

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