Barcelona, 26 of May 2025

This last week, RedBici participated in the ITS European Congress in Seville. The congress aims to connect the mobility, technology, and innovation sectors by bringing together experts, legislators, and key players from industry and academia to advance the field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). The congress provides a platform to share initiatives and solutions that address today’s and tomorrow’s mobility challenges.

At this year’s edition in Seville, RedBici actively participated in two sessions: the first panel focused on “Collaborative Solutions for Sustainable Urban Distribution”, and the second session addressed “How ITS Can Help Make Active Mobility in Public Spaces Safe”.

In the first panel, Carmen Estévez, head of European projects at RedBici, presented the Decarbomile project alongside two other European projects currently underway on the same topic: Urbane and Green-log. The three projects are linked to innovative, sustainable, and decarbonized urban freight distribution.

Several living-labs across Europe are developing pilots to test from multimodality (public transport and cycle logistics), IoT and AI systems for operational optimization, robotics for autonomous delivery, to the implementation of microhubs for consolidation and collaborative space with cyclelogistics activity among all stakeholders involved in the field.

All this innovation in urban logistics present many challenges: regulation, management, governance, technology, and more. We shared the main lessons regarding the projects we are carrying out: prioritize the local stakeholders’ involvement to ensure the success and continuity of these innovative projects, support innovation with flexible regulation, invest in interoperable and digital infrastructure, and prioritize the co-creation of future urban logistics strategies.

The event was also the opportunity to gather DECARBOMILE patners RedBici and Sarajevo municipality (featured below).

In the second session, on “How ITS Can Help Make Active Mobility in Public Spaces Safe,” the Secretary General of RedBici, Sílvia Casorrán, organized the roundtable together with representatives from the POLIS network,, the City Council of Cologne in Germany (Stadt Köln), the CLIME – Innovation Cluster for Electric Micromobility, and EIT Urban Mobility.

During the panel, various experiences with technology available on the market to improve road safety for pedestrians and cyclists were shared. Among them, the pilot projects Spinovate in Dublin (AI sensors to generate real-time information about the conditions of cycling infrastructure) and Screen with Cycle Rap in Sarajevo and Barcelona (to automate the evaluation of cycling infrastructure using cameras mounted on bicycles) were explained. The experience of automatically reducing speeds in shared spaces through “geofencing” (virtual geographic barriers) was also discussed. One application of this technology has been in shared scooters in pedestrian areas, where it has been possible to automatically limit the speed to 10 km/h. 

On the other hand, the representative from the City Council of Cologne explained how a pilot project with Ford freight vehicles was carried out in the city of Cologne, which worked very well, to automatically adapt maximum speeds to the speed limits of the road. This functionality is particularly interesting for application in public spaces where different modes of transport coexist at varying speeds.

Since July 2024, Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) has been mandatory in all new vehicles registered in Europe. This new regulation opens up a very interesting exploratory field for administrations to better control traffic speeds on public roads. Every day, there are around 3,300 deaths worldwide as a result of traffic accidents (1.3 million each year, according to the Global Road Safety Partnership). The available technology could significantly help reduce these deaths (as well as the number of people seriously injured). Now, the question arises as to what administrative and social barriers exist to implementing these ITS solutions that are already available on the market.

In the exhibition area of the congress, various technologies that improve knowledge and road safety for cycling mobility were present, such as Ecocounter counters or the APP Beloo, which warns about cyclists on the road and is available in the sistema de DGT 3.0, the connected vehicle platform. Google Maps and Waze also had their own spaces, where the growing interest in data on supply and demand related to cycling mobility could be observed.