Walking and Cycling
Improving the Quality of Walking and Cycling in Cities
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
14 February 2024
- Focus on improving the quality (not quantity) of walking and cycling in cities.
- Democratise mobility space to ensure citizens can travel more safely, healthily and in comfort.
- Incorporate violence reduction as a critical transport policy goal.
- Remove car blinders from transport appraisal methods and consider a broader range of alternatives.
- Remove moto-normative policies to increase the effectiveness of new pro-walking and cycling policies.
- Decouple walking and cycling to focus on the different needs of pedestrians and cyclists.
- Ensure access to high-quality collective transport to enable better walking and cycling.
Transit-Oriented Development and Accessibility: Case studies from Southeast Asian cities
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
8 October 2023
- Ensure sufficient availability of public transport and infrastructure for active modes.
- Integrate transport planning with land use planning for co-ordinated implementation of measures.
- Embrace disruptive mobility trends in ways that ensure improved accessibility.
- Collect more and better-quality data on urban mobility to underpin transit-oriented development.
- Learn from international experiences with transit-oriented development and apply them locally.
Shifting the Focus: Smaller Electric Vehicles for Sustainable Cities
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
26 September 2023
- Shift the focus of policies that promote electric vehicles to end the dependency on large, under-used vehicles.
- Help make smaller electric vehicles an attractive choice for citizens.
- Ensure the transition to smaller electric vehicles goes in hand with adequate safety provisions.
- Fast-track the electrification of shared mobility services in complement with public transport.
- Ensure the availability of enough charging points to make electric mobility attractive.
The Freight Space Race: Curbing the Impact of Freight Deliveries in Cities
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
5 December 2022
- Manage curb space with a focus on the needs of both passengers and goods transport.
- Apply access restrictions for delivery vehicles in urban areas while considering business practices.
- Use more logistics data to better monitor and manage freight flows.
Advancing Sustainable Mobility in Greece: Promoting electric vehicle uptake and SUMPs
Project,
31 October 2022
Streets That Fit: Re-allocating Space for Better Cities
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
17 February 2022
- Adopt meaningful indicators for how urban street space is used.
- Re-allocate street space to account for diverse uses and users.
- Prioritise people over vehicles when allocating street space.
- Explore the benefits of dynamically re-allocating certain street spaces.
- Adopt Safe System principles to guide the re-allocation of street space.
Artificial Intelligence in Proactive Road Infrastructure Safety Management
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
15 December 2021
- Develop a competitive market for the sharing and monetising of traffic and mobility data.
- Do not wait for real-time data before developing risk maps.
- Mandate the sharing of aggregate vehicle data.
- Learn from other fields and best practice for data sharing and privacy protection.
- Support research and innovation towards trusted and explainable AI.
- Align new tools with precise policy objectives.
- Develop new skills and digital infrastructure.
- Clarify regulatory frameworks for data protection and digital security.
- Design user-friendly risk-mapping tools.
Walkability in Amsterdam: More space for the mother of all modes of transport
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Safer City Streets - Current Research on European Cities
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Reviewing speed limits: the case for multi-criteria analysis
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Prioritising walking to create a safe and accessible city
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
How to monitor motorist behaviour at pedestrian crossings
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Invisible Road Signs: Why truck drivers' visibility must improve to enhance road safety
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
New directions for data driven transport safety: Impact of GDPR on road safety policy making
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Crowdsourced sensor data helping to improve cyclist safety
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Speed and crash data: Combining speed and crash data for safer city roads in The Hague
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Estimating city-level burden of road-traffic-collision fatalities
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Integrating Urban Public Transport Systems and Cycling
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
25 April 2018
- Design interchange stations to provide secure, uncongested conditions for transfer by the shortest routes possible.
- Provide adequate bike parking areas at stations and stops.
- Integrate ticketing and information systems as well as the physical transport infrastructure.
- Establish integrated urban transport plans in consultation with stakeholders and the public.