City launches live navigation for Smart to Antwerp app | Antwerp
AntwerpSmart to Antwerp for its smartphone app a new live navigation. This is how the city wants to find an alternative to its own car. Four new providers of shared scooters, bicycles, scooters and cars have also been added to the existing route planner. Furthermore, the app now takes into account the current occupation of the new Park and Rides on Linkeroever, Luchtbal and Merksem.
The Smart ways to Antwerp app has been around for four years and has more than 25,000 users. This week the app received an update, which includes live navigation in the route planner. After obtaining their route and being able to follow it in real time, users receive information and access resources.
Multimodal Navigation
“No route planner worldwide works out multimodal routes as extensively as those from Smart to Antwerp. The update of the app contains routes on foot, with the (folding) bicycle, e-bike, bus, tram, train, boat, car, shared bicycle, scooter, scooter and car,” said Alderman for Mobility Koen Kennis. . “Users are guided through notifications and pop-ups every step of the way. In principle, each step is fully automatic, but it is still possible to manually start a previous segment of the next segment. If a route is no longer feasible, the app will suggest an alternative. There is also guidance with current passages, visual indication of the intermediate stops and notifications to get off. As a bonus, users also get to see live weather information for each route.”
new providers
During the update, the route planner and the slim map immediately added as many modes of transport as possible that were included in Antwerp last year. These are Cargoroo shared cargo bikes, Lime shared scooters, GO Sharing shared scooters and GreenMobility shared cars. They complement the existing suppliers Velo, Poppy, Cambio, Bird and Blue-bike. Donkey Republic’s electric shared bicycles will be added in the course of this autumn. Finally, the live occupation of the Park and Rides on Linkeroever, Luchtbal and Merksem can also be seen.
Where possible, the city of Antwerp integrated these mobility solutions for the entire Benelux. This way, visitors and commuters who come from further afield can also use the app. In addition, get a reminder to take their bike lights with them and turn them on when they move after. Users also receive a notification if they drive too fast with their (shared) car or shared scooter.
The multimodal route planner and navigation is still under development and will be improved in the coming weeks and months. The current beta version is therefore certainly not final. Users of the app can provide their feedback to the Slim naar Antwerpen team via email to [email protected] or via social media.
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