FITS · Pilot partners
The IT platform
behind FITS.
FITS makes cycling possible for people who cannot ride a standard bike. BeeManaged builds the platform that runs behind it: bookings, access to the bikes, fleet and reporting, for every pilot site.
Action 1 · closed
Pilot-partner questionnaire.
The questionnaire is closed. Thank you to every pilot partner who filled it in. We are turning your answers into the requirements for the platform, and the next action appears on this page as soon as it opens.
- 01QuestionnaireClosed
- 02Choosing which modules your site needsLater
- 03Reacting to the first wireframesLater
- 04A working session per siteLater
- 05A stretch of real useLater
The actions we ask of you
The questionnaire was action 1, and it will not be the only one. More follow as the project moves on: choosing which modules your site needs, reacting to the first wireframes, a working session per site, and later a stretch of real use where you tell us what the platform gets wrong. Each new action gets its own block on this page, so this stays the place to check what is open for the consortium.
About FITS
What FITS is
A cross-border project under Interreg VI A Deutschland-Nederland, running from 2026 to 2029. It develops and pilots a shared mobility system with adapted bikes for older people and people with reduced mobility, from fixed hub locations in the Netherlands and Germany. The bikes include duo-bikes, tricycles, wheelchair transport bikes, rickshaws and low-step bikes. Most shared mobility was never designed for people with specific mobility needs. FITS starts from those needs instead of adding them on afterwards.
The two service models
In FITS Volunteers, a trained volunteer accompanies or cycles with the user: planned, guided, often recurring rides. In FITS Stations, users reserve a bike and unlock it themselves at a connected hub. A pilot site can run one model or both. Running both side by side for four years is what will show which model holds up where, and what a location needs in place before self-service is realistic at all.
FITS Volunteers
In FITS Volunteers, a trained volunteer accompanies or cycles with the user: planned, guided, often recurring rides.
FITS Stations
In FITS Stations, users reserve a bike and unlock it themselves at a connected hub.
Who is behind FITS
A cross-border consortium of bike manufacturers, care and volunteer organisations, municipalities, regional authorities and knowledge partners. vanRaam is the lead partner and develops and supplies the adapted bikes. BeeManaged is the technology partner.
What BeeManaged builds
The platform behind the service: booking, matching riders with volunteers and bikes, access to the bikes at a hub, fleet status, notifications, and the figures each site reports. That is work package 4. The questionnaire was the co-creation step in work package 3, which turns each site's day-to-day practice into concrete requirements. We are not building a demo that lasts as long as the funding. The aim is one platform that works on both sides of the border and is still worth using in 2030, which is why the requirements come from you and not from us.
Where this goes after 2029
The project has an end date, but the service is meant to outlast it. FITS works towards models that keep the rides running once the funding stops, and towards a toolkit that lets another region set up the same thing without repeating four years of groundwork. It is also why the platform is built once for both countries instead of separately per site.
Accessibility is the point
FITS is for the people most software quietly leaves out: someone without a smartphone, someone who needs large text, someone whose carer operates the device on their behalf. The platform has to work for them, and at the same time for a coordinator planning twenty rides a week. That is a constraint we design around from the first sketch, not something we repair in a later release.
Dieses Projekt wird im Rahmen des Interreg-Programms Deutschland-Nederland von der Europäischen Union und den Interreg-Partnern finanziell unterstützt.Dit project wordt in het kader van het Interreg-programma Deutschland-Nederland financieel ondersteund door de Europese Unie en de Interreg-partners.