The full potential of ITS can only be achieved in a global scale and combining the efforts and the knowledge of multiple entities. This is also true for the current efforts towards the application of data, communications and services, to improve cycling and its integration into general mobility systems. The currently prevailing paradigm is based on disperse and self-contained custom processes, which fail to pro...
Bicycles equipped with sensors, processing capacity and communications can be a promising source of data about the personal and the collective reality of urban cycling. While this concept has been attracting considerable interest, the key assumption is the design of a closed system where a uniform set of sensing bicycles, with a concrete set of sensors, is used to support a specific service. The core challenge,...