This map offers a glimps of where people commute by bicycle (and by car). It starts from a very large scale survey of all companies larger than 100 employees. Individuals are known by their postal code only, so are assigned some random start point within that area. The actual route is based on a robust cycle route planner that uses OpenStreetMap data. So the routes are what seems logical with the available data.
EDIT: since a lot of the discussion is about the difference between north and south:
– it only includes employees at larger organizations. [This image](https://imgur.com/ZRrTmXb) shows the absolute number of employees involved. So Wallonia is a LOT less dense than in the North.
– But if you look at [the % of residents who cycle to work](https://imgur.com/MXp6VNL)
, yeah there’s something more going on! Not exactly at the regional boundary either, there’s also a clear north-south gradient in Flanders. Which happens to correlate to hilliness, but also a bit to less populated places.
EDIT 2 : For those wondering about cycle infrastructure in north & south, this map highlights actually designated cycleways: https://amenagements-cyclables.fr/fr/statsThis map is better for closer zoom: https://www.cyclosm.org/#map=14/50.4132/4.4592/cyclosm Even Charleroi 😉 has some cycle lanes, though most are just painted, not separated tracks
Love these kind of maps.
Wasn’t expecting that much of a difference between Flanders and Wallonia. Then again, traffic jams are much less of an issue in Wallonia, so going by car is much more convenient.
I love the fact that you can see some of the Fietssnelwegen in Flanders
Can we have a overlay with an elevation map?
Or an overlay where there are decent cycle lanes?
Another point to take into consideration for the difference between North-South is that most likely it only count those that declare coming to Work by bike only.
Most of us Walloons also need a car, biking 35 minutes to work is ok in the summer, but as soon as it rains, it means being soaking wet, as soon as it’s freezing or snowy it’s a shit show.
So even those doing it from times to times by bike will use a car/bus/dropoff transportation at those moments. not considering the bicycle as their main mean of transportation.
https://www.opencyclemap.org/ is nice as well, really shows how much biking infrastructure we have compared to other European countries
I’m sensing a pattern here, but can’t put my finger on it…
I took a glimpse of the map and I wanted to correct you that this was only the map of Flanders. Then I saw it. Lol
Lol barely in Wallonië
Tamme walen
that long straight from Ottignies to Namen is also pretty weird, definitly not easy to ride
EV Route 5 from Brussels to Namur: Gekoloniseerd
Who paid for this study?
Funny, I’m in mobility data in Belgium as well. We should get a coffee some day!
You can see a couple of rail lines on this map.
Ahh I love to see the bicycle highways so clearly. These and the riverside paths are delightful to ride on.
i live in the city of Belgium
Wallonia: How ’bout no ?
The so called fietsostrade starting from Hove is horrendous the previous part is what I’d call a fietsostrade
/rant
I am a caveman from Wallonia, I was very surprised when I went to Leuven for the first time and saw 90% of the people outside riding a bike. Idk if it is a difference of culture or just the absence of hills favourising the use of bikes
Could that be the influence of Netherlands?
OK I’m a seperatist now. u/suckmybike what do you think about this?
i live in pelquim
Big up the few guys in Luxemburg making an effort for climate change lol
I ride my Bike 2 times a week to my work. Its 40 k to my work and 90 % is the F4. The moment the weather starts to be better a lot of People use this road.
Who is that brave soul single handily biking between Aaron and Étalle. The faintest of lines.
So far they have counters on 15 locations in Flanders, but this should get expanded this year to 75 counters. The data gets updated daily. It’s interesting to see how the amount of cyclists correlates to the weather etc.
I was here in Belgium for 1.5 months and commuted to work on bicycle only. I used to ride 10 km (back and forth) daily. I developed a lot of stamina and now love to ride a bicycle. Now that I am going back to India, I am going to take this habit with me. What really shocked me, was the fact that even old people ride on bike and stay soo healthy! Belgium is a really nice and safe country for commuting on bike.
Did people in Wallonia simply not participate or is this a correct representation of the distinction between the regions?
48km everyday (in total) for me 😇 we need more safe bicycle lanes though!
So the Walen do use bikes at all?
Either not many cycle in Wallonia, or not many work.
Here in Wallonia we don’t work
ah look a roadmap of Flanders. Almost exclusively.
Kind of crazy how shit bikepath (more Lack there of) are in Antwerpen looking at this map
Wait, the Waalen don’t use bikes? Is it because of all the hills or??
Ben ook in België
Mandatory jokes about Walloons not working.
C’est facile en Flandre, c’est tout plat. Bientôt il faudra des pédalos.
It looks correct but a map like this need a clarification about how the data is collected and how largethe sampleand time frame.. Let say it is done by a specific app. If that app is nearly not used in a specific area it makes sense there are no riders. But would be based on phone locations. Their speed and location. That should make it possible to filter the bikes out.
Wallonia really has to improve the cycling infrastructure
Geen fietsers in Westhoek & Zuid-oost-vlaanderen? Of geen werk?
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This map offers a glimps of where people commute by bicycle (and by car). It starts from a very large scale survey of all companies larger than 100 employees. Individuals are known by their postal code only, so are assigned some random start point within that area. The actual route is based on a robust cycle route planner that uses OpenStreetMap data. So the routes are what seems logical with the available data.
Zoom in on [the interactive map](https://www.anyways.eu/map/?view=trips&layer-2=false#9.56/51.0581/4.2212) to get a better view of volumes. Click on a segment to see what the source and destination is of the people using that segment.
EDIT: since a lot of the discussion is about the difference between north and south:
– it only includes employees at larger organizations. [This image](https://imgur.com/ZRrTmXb) shows the absolute number of employees involved. So Wallonia is a LOT less dense than in the North.
– But if you look at [the % of residents who cycle to work](https://imgur.com/MXp6VNL)
, yeah there’s something more going on! Not exactly at the regional boundary either, there’s also a clear north-south gradient in Flanders. Which happens to correlate to hilliness, but also a bit to less populated places.
EDIT 2 : For those wondering about cycle infrastructure in north & south, this map highlights actually designated cycleways: https://amenagements-cyclables.fr/fr/statsThis map is better for closer zoom: https://www.cyclosm.org/#map=14/50.4132/4.4592/cyclosm Even Charleroi 😉 has some cycle lanes, though most are just painted, not separated tracks
Love these kind of maps.
Wasn’t expecting that much of a difference between Flanders and Wallonia. Then again, traffic jams are much less of an issue in Wallonia, so going by car is much more convenient.
I love the fact that you can see some of the Fietssnelwegen in Flanders
Can we have a overlay with an elevation map?
Or an overlay where there are decent cycle lanes?
Another point to take into consideration for the difference between North-South is that most likely it only count those that declare coming to Work by bike only.
Most of us Walloons also need a car, biking 35 minutes to work is ok in the summer, but as soon as it rains, it means being soaking wet, as soon as it’s freezing or snowy it’s a shit show.
So even those doing it from times to times by bike will use a car/bus/dropoff transportation at those moments. not considering the bicycle as their main mean of transportation.
https://www.opencyclemap.org/ is nice as well, really shows how much biking infrastructure we have compared to other European countries
I’m sensing a pattern here, but can’t put my finger on it…
I took a glimpse of the map and I wanted to correct you that this was only the map of Flanders. Then I saw it. Lol
Lol barely in Wallonië
Tamme walen
that long straight from Ottignies to Namen is also pretty weird, definitly not easy to ride
EV Route 5 from Brussels to Namur: Gekoloniseerd
Who paid for this study?
Funny, I’m in mobility data in Belgium as well. We should get a coffee some day!
You can see a couple of rail lines on this map.
Ahh I love to see the bicycle highways so clearly. These and the riverside paths are delightful to ride on.
i live in the city of Belgium
Wallonia: How ’bout no ?
The so called fietsostrade starting from Hove is horrendous the previous part is what I’d call a fietsostrade
/rant
I am a caveman from Wallonia, I was very surprised when I went to Leuven for the first time and saw 90% of the people outside riding a bike. Idk if it is a difference of culture or just the absence of hills favourising the use of bikes
Could that be the influence of Netherlands?
OK I’m a seperatist now. u/suckmybike what do you think about this?
i live in pelquim
Big up the few guys in Luxemburg making an effort for climate change lol
I ride my Bike 2 times a week to my work. Its 40 k to my work and 90 % is the F4. The moment the weather starts to be better a lot of People use this road.
Who is that brave soul single handily biking between Aaron and Étalle. The faintest of lines.
Useless map 😂 doesn’t tell u nothing
FYI: there is the “Fietsbarometer” by the province of Antwerp:
[https://fietsbarometer.provincieantwerpen.be/geoloketten/?viewer=fietsbarometer](https://fietsbarometer.provincieantwerpen.be/geoloketten/?viewer=fietsbarometer)
Also the “Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer” has some open data on their website from their bike counters:
[https://wegenenverkeer.be/wegen/fietsinfrastructuur/fietstelpunten](https://wegenenverkeer.be/wegen/fietsinfrastructuur/fietstelpunten)
So far they have counters on 15 locations in Flanders, but this should get expanded this year to 75 counters. The data gets updated daily. It’s interesting to see how the amount of cyclists correlates to the weather etc.
I was here in Belgium for 1.5 months and commuted to work on bicycle only. I used to ride 10 km (back and forth) daily. I developed a lot of stamina and now love to ride a bicycle. Now that I am going back to India, I am going to take this habit with me. What really shocked me, was the fact that even old people ride on bike and stay soo healthy! Belgium is a really nice and safe country for commuting on bike.
Did people in Wallonia simply not participate or is this a correct representation of the distinction between the regions?
48km everyday (in total) for me 😇 we need more safe bicycle lanes though!
So the Walen do use bikes at all?
Either not many cycle in Wallonia, or not many work.
Here in Wallonia we don’t work
ah look a roadmap of Flanders. Almost exclusively.
Kind of crazy how shit bikepath (more Lack there of) are in Antwerpen looking at this map
Wait, the Waalen don’t use bikes? Is it because of all the hills or??
Ben ook in België
Mandatory jokes about Walloons not working.
C’est facile en Flandre, c’est tout plat. Bientôt il faudra des pédalos.
It looks correct but a map like this need a clarification about how the data is collected and how largethe sampleand time frame.. Let say it is done by a specific app. If that app is nearly not used in a specific area it makes sense there are no riders. But would be based on phone locations. Their speed and location. That should make it possible to filter the bikes out.
Wallonia really has to improve the cycling infrastructure
Geen fietsers in Westhoek & Zuid-oost-vlaanderen? Of geen werk?
Wallonia will start the development of new modern Bike infra in 2023. The planning started in 2021. The goal is a completely bike able Wallonia till 2030.
[Bikelane plan](http://mobilite.wallonie.be/home/politiques-de-mobilite/wallonie-cyclable/le-plan-wallonie-cyclable-2030—gouvernance.html)
And for what it’s worth if you live in Wallonia and want to buy a bicycle, or if you use a bicycle you can get a bonus of max 20% of the cost of your bicycle.
[Bonus](http://mobilite.wallonie.be/news/obtenir-une-prime-regionale-pour-lachat-dun-velo-ou-dun-kit-adaptable)
Belgium is like a little town in Australia.
Any site where we can zoom in on this map?