citizen science Archive - 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

August 11, 2025

AtrAI Bikes Workshop

Data-driven cycling city!

The workshop takes place on September 11, 2025 at the Intsitute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Münster.

How can mobility and environmental data help to improve our cycling infrastructure in a targeted manner? Join us at the Institute for Geoinformatics (University of Münster), where our partners re:edu and Instituto Cordial and we present and discuss results of our Atrai Bikes project!

🔍 Focus

📊 The Atrai Bikes project’s open-source data platform for collecting, visualizing, and analyzing traffic data.

🛣️ Data sources such as the senseBox:bike, which records temperature, particulate matter, passing distances, and road conditions (partly AI-based).

🚴 User testing and feedback: Interfaces, file formats, export options

💬 Discussion: How can we use this data for more sustainable, bicycle-friendly urban planning?

💡 Lightning Talks: Short presentations by project partners and participants on data-driven approaches to the transportation transition with a focus on bicycles.

👉 Get involved: If you would like to contribute, please indicate this when registering.

*Atrai Bikes has received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

April 28, 2025

Tickets Available for Atrai Bikes Workshop

We sitll have space at our workshop with the senseBox:bike tomorrow, Tuesday 29.04.2025!

Help shape the mobility transition and actively collect data that could contribute to improving bike paths in Münster! Join us tomorrow 17:03 – 19:30 CEST at the Haus der Nachhaltigkeit in Münster.

The workshop will be held in collaboration with Smart City Münster and the City of Münster’s bicycle office and is part of the Atrai Bikes project by 52°North GmbH, Instituto Cordial and re:edu, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and FAPESP.

October 11, 2024

Ride the senseBox:bike to the data-driven bicycle city

Participate in the AtrAI Bikes workshop!

The senseBox:bike is an open-source sensor technology that collects environmental and traffic-related data while traveling. Using an innovative, AI-based approach, dangerous passing manoeuvres by cars, road conditions, particulate matter and temperature are measured on the move. Join the workshop and you can assemble the technology, try it out and discuss how this data can contribute to improving the safety of cyclists and the cycling infrastructure. If you would like to be part of this citizen science campaign, we will lend you the senseBox:bike for a measurement campaign at the end.

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October 8, 2024

Visiting an old friend

52°North at ITC

Several colleagues from 52°North traveled to our Dutch founding member, the ITC of the University of Twente, for a joint symposium. We had not been to the ITC since it moved to a new building. To grasp the dimensions of the Langezijds building, we were given a guided tour of the departments and labs. 52°North and the ITC departments gave an overview of current projects and research topics in preparation for the discussions on further joint activities and to identify commonalities and complementarities. During the afternoon, topic-specific break-out tables were set up for lively discussions. We came up with many ideas and identified concrete measures to shape our future collaboration. Many thanks goes to the ITC team for the very warm welcome, their hospitality and the fruitful exchange of exciting ideas!