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Telraam’s Year in Review. Reflecting on 2024 and Setting Our Sights on 2025

Insights

With 2024 behind us, we at Telraam are taking a moment to reflect on the past year and look ahead to exciting opportunities in 2025. This blogpost is about some of the highlights from 2024 and what’s on the horizon for 2025.

Kris Vanherle 10 January 2025

Commercial use of Telraam-data, for the benefit of citizens

Insights

This blog post explores the opportunities and challenges of using citizen-generated traffic counting data from Telraam sensors for commercial applications. It’s a careful balancing act: aligning the interests of the citizens who generate data, the clients who buy sensors and subscriptions, and third parties interested in developing commercial applications. Consider this post as a “White Paper” on how Telraam is positioning itself to navigate these dynamics.

Kris Vanherle 28 October 2024

Partnership!

Collaboration always works better than trying to do everything yourself. That’s why we’re looking for people and companies to partner with us. If you’re curious about the why, how and who, read on.

Kris Vanherle 6 June 2024

The Value of Citizen-Science Powered Data Counting for People-Friendly Streets

Using citizen-science to make people friendly street projects in the UK more effective

Robert McIntosh 24 June 2024

Insights from Telraam data - a case study of an Island in the Netherlands

How can you gain insights such as seasonal traffic in long-term Telraam data? And what is the importance of long-term traffic counts? We share our insights from an interesting use case in Ameland (Netherlands).

Wouter Florizoone 9 April 2024

Beta testing the night counting algorithm

We are nearing the time where we will be able to update all existing Telraam S2 devices with their latest skill - Night Counts.

Robert McIntosh 23 February 2024

Bye 2023, Hello 2024

Time flies when you’re having fun. That certainly has been the case for us at Telraam in 2023. Read here about our year recap and look into the future.

Kris Vanherle 18 January 2024

News and new features!

Data subscription, Telraam S2 evaluation & outdoor Telraam

Autumn is slowly starting to set in but we’ve not been lazy over the summer! In this blogpost, we will give an update on some new features and some changes to the webpage. Take a few minutes to read up on what we’ve been up to and what’s coming next.

Kris Vanherle 4 October 2023

Citizen Engagement in Liezele: lessons from a campaign

Liezele

What can we learn from the experience of a dedicated group of residents in Liezele who want something done about the traffic through their town? Quite a lot in fact. Note: This post is a long-read, focussed on the citizen engagement with Telraam. If you're looking for ideas how to integrate Telraam in your citizen engagement campaigns, this is a good practical example

Robert McIntosh 9 November 2023

Telraam wins prestigious prize at Velo-City Conference in Leipzig

Telraam Velo-City

Today, Telraam won the 'Smart Pedal Pitch' at the Velo-City Conference in Leipzig. This is an annual international competition for the most innovative and market-ready technology to shape the future of bicycle mobility in cities. Telraam won the final from Northern Irish company See.Sense and Austrian company Velovio. The prize includes the roll-out of a mobility project in the city of Leipzig worth 17,000€.

Wouter Florizoone 12 May 2023

What can and can’t you do with Telraam data?

Data

Data interpretation is important, and that is why we believe there is great potential in a citizen science approach to traffic data gathering. Not only are citizens motivated to gather and review the data, but they can also provide local knowledge and experience in order to add the all-important context. I hope this blogpost helps to provide some insights into what you can do to start with your Telraam data.

Kris Vanherle 10 May 2023

Press Release Launch Telraam S2

Telraam S2

Affordable AI traffic counting for better urban planning together with citizens. Today, Telraam officially launches the Telraam S2, a custom designed and upgraded version of the Telraam multimodal traffic counting device. Using AI technology to support highly accurate and targeted citizen science data generation, this new device will make the installation and connection of new devices much easier, with a view to growing Telraam’s international reach.

Wouter Florizoone 7 March 2023

Unwrapping the Telraam S2: Updates on the Product Roadmap, Validation Counts, and New Webshop

Telraam S2 - update

Ho ho ho! It's that time of year again and we have a special festive present for you: updates on the new Telraam S2 device.

Robert McIntosh 23 December 2022

Municipality of Heusden-Zolder wants all students to bike to school

Heusden-Zolder

Like many other municipalities, Heusden-Zolder wants to encourage children (and parents) to cycle to school. The Limburg municipality's Municipal Schools Plan, for instance, aims to design school environments on child-size and to improve road safety on the main routes to and from local schools. Eventually, all schools in the municipality should be safe enough so that parents and children can cycle and walk to school carefree.

Wouter Florizoone 30 September 2022

An update on the new Telraam sensor

Telraam S2

Over the past few months there has been a lot of development work done on the new Telraam sensor, and we thought it was time to update you on this work.

Elke Verhoeven 27 September 2022

Insights from your Telraam data - a case study from Antwerp

Monitoring traffic during calming measures and road works

If you have been running your own Telraam device or a Telraam Network in your municipality for some time, you may be starting to think about what insights you will get from your Telraam data. In this article, we will explore the case of Ranst, a municipality in the periphery of Antwerp.

Wouter Florizoone 26 August 2022

Some insights on Telraam data validation

Precision, accuracy, and validations of the original Telraam sensor

Since the start of Telraam, our sensors counted over three billion road users over approximately 5000 locations. That's a lot! In this article we want to share some insights on the precision, accuracy and validation of all these data.

Robert McIntosh 28 July 2022

Traffic model with Telraam data

Traffic model

The European MOMENTUM project lays the foundations for a bite-sized dynamic traffic model for every local authority.

Wouter Florizoone 15 April 2022

New style, admin and more!

releases

The past few weeks we have been working hard on a new digital identity. This resulted in a number of changes to the website, dashboard and ... a new logo! Read below what has changed.

Dave Driesmans 24 March 2022

Give your traffic sensor a second life!

Telraam recycle

Have you collected enough data? Then you don't have to leave your Telraam idle.

Wouter Florizoone 3 March 2022

Traffic counts in Savannah, Georgia

Telraam abroad

We have contracted with environmental agency EPA in the United States to roll out traffic counts in Savannah, Georgia. You can find the press release issued by Belga here.

Wouter Florizoone 17 February 2022

Slow backwards and fast forward

Recap 2021

It almost feels like yesterday, writing a blogpost reflecting on our successes and lessons learned in 2020 and looking forward to 2021. Yet here we are, another year has passed; 2021 is done and we are in 2022! So, how do we look back to 2021 and forward to 2022, find out in this blogpost.

Dave Driesmans 13 January 2022

An interview with Lieven Raes

Interview Lieven Raes

Lieven Raes works for Digital Flanders, the regional government agency for the digitisation of government (BE). He is an experienced consortium and project coordinator active in several EU funded H2020. With the end of the year in sight, he made some time for us to talk about the new European project COMPAIR. A project in which we, at Telraam, are also partners.

Wouter Florizoone 22 December 2021

What satisfied customers say: City of Halle (Belgium)

Telraam testimonial

With more than 30 Telraam networks on the counter, we are now firmly launched. But how does our local contact look at the cooperation? In this series, we zoom in on our cooperation with local authorities.

Wouter Florizoone 18 November 2021

Network in the spotlight: circulation plan Aalst

Circulatieplan Aalst

In the city of Aalst, a circulation plan was introduced for the city center on August 16 last summer. This plan aims to increase traffic safety and stimulate active forms of transport in the city. Within this plan, the choice was made to slow down the through motorized traffic in certain well-chosen streets. Some strategic axes through the city were also reserved for bicycle traffic in the first place.

Wouter Florizoone 17 November 2021

Telraam at school

Telraam at school

Twelve Flemish schools are starting a pilot project in which they measure traffic using Telraam devices, a combination of a microcomputer, sensors and a camera.

Wouter Florizoone 21 October 2021

Street profile: compare your street with other streets

Ranking & Straatprofiel

Is there much or little traffic in your street and how does your street compare to other streets in terms of morning and evening peak traffic? You can now enter your "street profile" on Telraam.

Wouter Florizoone 29 October 2021

New 3D printed camera holder

New camera holder

This new camera holder was 3D printed in Belgium and ensures that the camera can be installed at a perfect angle without the risk of falling out of position.

Wouter Florizoone 29 October 2021

Telraam & Privacy

privacy

Cameras and privacy can go hand in hand: the Telraam sensor shows that it is possible.

Wouter Florizoone 26 October 2021

Are you a fan of live traffic data, and you like maps too?

Update API

Then our latest API offering should really interest you! With the freshly released traffic snapshot API we provide an easy and convenient access point to traffic count and segment geography data in a single call.

Wouter Florizoone 6 October 2021

Research by KU Leuven thesis students provides interesting and valuable insights for Telraam

Thesis students

There is always a lot going on behind the scenes of Telraam that is not immediately visible for our users. As you might have read in our 'Who is Who' already, some of us are working on improving the IT architecture to make sure the servers and APIs are always up for the task, while others are busy with maintaining and growing the Telraam family by working with the interested citizens and various levels of governments, with work ranging from writing technical business proposals to providing a dedicated helpdesk to resolve any potential questions coming from current and future Telraam users.

Wouter Florizoone 16 September 2021

A more autonomous Telraam

outdoor

UCLL experiences on power supply and connectivity when setting up an outdoor, autonomous operational Telraam: great results with battery and solar panel...until it rains!

Dave Driesmans 16 July 2021

Who is who?

team

You've probably wondered many times, who is actually behind Telraam and what are these people working on now? In this blog post, we’ll give you a brief insight into what we are working on now:

Dave Driesmans 10 June 2021

Telraam Sensor V2

New Sensor

Telraam has started a new project to develop a completely new sensor and we need your help building it! In this blog-post, we explain our approach, timeline and explain how you can contribute to this new project.

Kris Vanherle 10 February 2021

What a year 2020 has been for Telraam!

Recap 2020

As this unexpectedly challenging roller coaster of a year is coming to an end, we take a brief moment to reflect on Telraam’s successes and failures these past 12 months, and look forward sharing with you what we can expect from Telraam in 2021. We’ve had plenty of highlights, and we’ve had our struggles too. 2020 has been a wild ride for Telraam for sure.

Kris Vanherle 23 December 2020

Car-free Sunday increases bicycle traffic by 38% in spite of less weather

Effect car-free Sunday

During the car-free Sunday on 27 September 2020 in Leuven, a selection of about 10 active "Telramen" found that - despite the weather conditions - there was significantly more walking, cycling and less driving.

Wouter Florizoone 28 September 2020