GoinGDutch • Makes you cycle

We are goinGDutch

We are passionate cyclists who started out in 2019 in response to a specific request from Schiphol: was there a way to get 10,000 of the airport’s 70,000 employees coming to work by bike?

goinGDutch emerged from an ideology centred on building on The Future Of Cycling, but which recognised that the challenges presented by urbanisation and mobility are too complex to be solved by one party alone.
Through this initiative, BAM Infra, Schiphol, Microsoft and OrangeNXT have joined forces, working as partners to benefit governments, businesses and end users. In the past, we would all provide our own separate pieces of the puzzle, but now we focus on the end result together, working on new concepts and services that place end users front and centre.

We See

… that there are major issues where mobility, health and fitness, and the climate are concerned. We see increasing urbanisation. People commuting between their home and work, city-centre logistics, schoolchildren and tourists all make a significant contribution to these issues.

We also see health and fitness becoming increasingly important. A healthy diet and sufficient exercise reduce the risk of illness and make you happier and more productive. And we see more people wanting a green environment, along with a conscious change in travel behaviour resulting in lower carbon emissions.

We Believe

… that the bicycle as a means of transport can be a significant part of the solution to issues surrounding mobility, health and fitness, sustainability and liveability, and that bikes can become at least equally as important for commuting and city-centre travel as cars and public transport. Bicycles take you quickly and predictably from A to B without any delays, and produce no or next to no carbon. Cycling is also beneficial to physical and mental health.

We believe that we can use technology to increase cycling safety, and to make it more attractive and fun. And that together, we can get more people cycling greater distances (makes you cycle).

And thats why we want

To make cycling a valuable alternative for commuting and city-centre travel

How we are doing this

Connecting

We are connecting the Living Lab Schiphol to local authorities and the business community, and responding to local ambitions, issues and situations as we do so. And by conducting research in collaboration with universities, we are connecting services and behaviour to the achievement of common goals for authorities, business and industry, and users.

Cyclist as the focus

In everything we do, the cyclist comes first. We aim to make bicycles a valuable alternative to cars and public transport and do everything we need to in order to facilitate and understand cyclists. We then use that information to build technological solutions.

Technology

By making smart use of technology, we can remove any obstacles that stop people from cycling. To achieve this, the four companies are working together as they learn and then design and build new concepts and services that provide effective solutions.

‘THE INCREASING URBANISATION, THE GROWING NUMBER OF TOURISTS AND THE INCREASING AMOUNT OF HOME-TO-WORK AND FREIGHT TRAFFIC DEMAND
NEW SOLUTIONS IN THE DOMAIN OF MOBILITY AND A SUSTAINABLE LIVING ENVIRONMENT’

Our three promises

Mobility

Improved balance in mobility

Digital infrastructure
(for bicycles)
Car parking spaces x% ↓
Traffic volumes x% ↓
Improved accessibility x%
Charging facilities x%
Bike Assistant x%

Health and fitness

Improved productivity

Lower costs x% ↓
Absenteeism x% ↓
Making fitness accessible to all x%
Cycling community x%
Exercise when working from home too x%

Sustainability

Smaller footprint

Carbon reduction of x% ↓
Contributing to the solving of societal challenges

Our Partners

goinGDutch came into being from the ideology that mobility has to be improved and changed, but that the challenges presented by urbanisation and mobility are too complex to be resolved by one, single party.

goinGDutch is a partnership in which BAM Infra, Schiphol, Microsoft and OrangeNXT combine their strengths to offer value to companies and end-users. Whereas in the past we all used to provide a single piece of the puzzle, now we are jointly concentrating on the end-result and working together on new concepts and services in which all attention is focussed on the end-user.

NEWS

goinGDutch increases reachability and mobility around cities and airports

24 February 2020

GoinGDutch is going to realise further improvements of the reachability and mobility around towns and airport cities under the auspices of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water management (I&W). Smart mobility solutions, a progressive technological infrastructure and a powerful biking community.

GoinGDutch – a healthy lifestyle is just a bike ride away!

24 January 2020

The first goinGDutch users are expected to cycle to Schiphol by March 2020. 'We want to contribute to a healthy environment for everyone at the airport. One way to help achieve this ambition is to encourage safe, active, quick and comfortable cycling to and from work, and goinGDutch is a great way to do this,' says Johan Winnubst.