You can learn to combine

How can you make your journeys greener? How can you help reduce traffic congestion? By choosing combined mobility! By combined mobility we mean combining cycling, walking, scootering or skating with, for example, public transport. We can help you with this sustainable choice, for example with our inclusive route planner.

Combined mobility and inclusive route planner

You’ll find a lot more than just our own bus and tram services in our route planner. It contains details of the complete NMBS-SNCB or MIVB-STIB offer, but also data about bicycles and scooters (shared or your own). We show you this information in an intuitive and inclusive way. With map display you can quickly find the necessary stops in your area – and this information is also accessible to the blind and partially sighted.

It’s also good to know that we promote the STOP principle with our route planner. This means that we show the transport options from most to least sustainable. First you’ll see the options for walking (S for stappen), then cycling (that’s T for trappen) and then public transport (O for openbaar vervoer). This will allow you to check out the train, tram and bus services in detail. Only if these options don’t work for you will you be able to see information about the car. Here too, we put the emphasis on sustainability: first we give you information about shared cars, and only then about your own car (P).

Of course we plan to take this a lot further in the future. Information about P+Rs, folding bicycles, shared and private cars is all on its way, as well as visual representations of vehicles and diversions.

Working together makes the difference

We’re playing our part on the digital front. We’re working with others on MaaS: mobility as a service. This will involve access to various sustainable transport services via a digital platform, offered by both public and private transport operators. We’re not the only MaaS player: Citymapper and Google maps have got involved too.

‘Before every journey you make, think critically about your choice of transport.’

Veerle from Ghent, who recently sold her car and now goes everywhere by bike, cambio and public transport.