The campus card serves as the ‘key’ to the secured parkings. TU/e staff and students don’t have to take action themselves, as the bicycle parking authorization will be activated automatically. Currently, campus residents have access to the secured bike parkings in vertigo, Helix, Hoofdgebouw, Traverse, Auditorium, Gemini, IPO, and Paviljoen. Last week Helix was fitted with 295 extra secured spaces, and Traverse, Gemini, and Auditorium will also get more secured parking spots for bicycles. Flux will also come to include a secured bike parking. The secured parking in Hoofdgebouw can’t be used anymore in 2015 because of renovation activities. The same goes for Potentiaal.The idea is that by 2018, half of the indoor bike parkings on campus are secured.

Over the next few months, two thousand new bike racks will be put on campus (see the image below for an example). They’ll be of a different type that has a ‘wider locking connection’. The new racks will either come to replace the older versions, of be put at spots where there were no bicycle racks yet. Flux will be treated to more than 900 new racks, for example.

There will be a major shift in bicycle stands in the years to come anyway. Since students at Helix/Matrix have a hard time finding a spot, it’s been decided to move 100 stands from Gemini to Helix. In 2015, more racks will move because people will have moved from Laplace building to Matrix, from Hoofdgebouw to Laplace building and Metaforum, and from several buildings to Flux by that time. In total, there will be an extra 500 bicycle parking racks on campus. The new situation will be most noticeable at Flux and Het Kranenveld (the small field behind Vertigo). DH is getting ready for 2018, when all bicycles have to be parked within the ‘compact campus’, all buildings south of De Zaale. By then, the number of bike racks will be half of the TU/e population, and half of that number will be secured. DH assumes that by 2020 there will be over 15,000 students and staff on campus, and wants to be prepared for that no later than 2018.

This image shows the future situation as planned.