24/09/2018 – Last Friday (21/09), the municipality Bekkevoort introduced her new, digital school route map. As a small, rural municipality, with only three primary schools, Bekkevoort shows that creating a digital school route map is not only for large municipalities or urbanized areas. After all, Route2school wants safer school routes […]
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Celebration digital school route maps in Evergem
21/09/2018 – Yesterday, under the massive interest of 435 school children, the new school route maps of Evergem were introduced: the paper version of the province of East-Flanders and the digital version of Route2school. The school route maps were inaugurated by the mayor and aldermen of Evergem, BicyClet and Velotien […]
Route2school starts in Borgerhout
19/09/2018 – On September 24, six schools in Borgerhout will start with Route2school, a project of the Transportation Research Institute of Hasselt University. Route2school is a mobile application with which parents, pupils, teachers and management can indicate exactly via which streets pupils can walk or cycle safely to school and […]
The city of Geel is soon launching a digital school route map
04/09/2018 – At the beginning of this year, the city of Geel asked the Route2school team to map the bottlenecks on school routes in the municipality and the travel behaviour of pupils. Nearly 180 reports have now bee, collected and analysed, after which a digital school route map is drawn […]
The safest route to school in city Region Turnhout
11/09/2018 – “Practice the safest route to school a couple of times.” That is the most important tip that VIAS, the traffic safety knowledge centre, gives you when your child goes to school by bike. The four municipalities of the city region Turnhout already distribute paper school route maps for […]
Province wants to repel car from school environment
27/08/2018 – In response to the start of the new school year, the province of Limburg calls municipal authorities and schools to structure the school environment as school streets, as much as possible. At the beginning and the end of the school day, cars are being repelled and only pedestrians […]
New Kipling satchels collection commits to coolness and visibility on the road to school
02/08/2018 – In one month, students and pupils will return to their classes and most of the time, they do this by car (52%), on foot (39%) or by bike (29%). But for almost 1 out of 2 children, visibility is not important. They especially want to look cool and […]
Because cyclists also need to comply with traffic rules
21/08/2018 – During the last couple of weeks, there was a lot of confusion about the priority rule for cyclists. What is allowed and what is not? Touring gives you a handy overview (in Dutch) of the most important traffic rules for cyclists. The following topics are covered: For whom […]
Children use school route map for the first time
22/05/2018 – Thanks to Route2school, Dendermonde has, just like many other Flemish cities and municipalities, a school route map. About 180 children used it for the first time on Friday, the 19th of May. “The map shows the most appropriate cycling routes to school, and additionally gives a bit of […]
Route2school: now on Facebook
07/05/2018 – Since last week, Route2school is also active on Facebook. Like our page and stay updated on every news item and developments. You can visit the Facebook page by clicking on the Facebook icon in the upper right corner or by clicking here.