Annual POLIS Conference 2023 – Presentations
The POLIS Conference 2023 took place on 29 and 30 November in Leuven, Belgium.
Below you will find all the presentations from the event.
1A. Active mobility for all
- Making walking and wheeling more accessible: Taking an intersectional approach to prioritise underrepresented disabled voices,Tim Burns, Sustrans
- How can people with reduced mobility become an important driver of shared mobility?, Esen Köse, Mpact
- Cycling as an inclusive mode of travel? A study of the diversity of cyclists in Flemish cities, Sam Delespaul & Jan Christiaens, Mobiel 21
- Vélo Solidaire – A bike leasing scheme to support cycling school for disadvantaged residents, Christophe de Voghel, Brussels Mobility
- Walkability App. A tool for community, research and policy towards better decisions and more walking friendly environments, Carlos Cañas, Walk21
1B. Green roads ahead: Sustainable approaches to traffic management
- The role of intelligent Traffic Light Controllers (iTLC) in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, Arjan Bezemer, CROW (C-ITS Advies)
- Exploring proactive traffic management: Introducing bus priority in the opposite lane during rush hour – Pilot project, Julija Glisovic, Viken County Council
- Evaluating the societal benefits of C-ITS, Martijn Legêne, Goudappel & Mikael Ivari, City of Gothenburg
- Real time traffic predictions as the key to future traffic management, Edwin Papjes, City of Groningen & Lieuwe Krol, Goudappel
1C. Powering the Just Transition
- A longterm strategy for a just mobility system in the Vervoerregio Amsterdam, Kelly Pronk & Gerard Hellburg, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
- Increasing transport access through micro-mobility and micro-subsidies, Sebastian Schlebusch, Dott
- Transportation justice in the American context, Paulo Nunes-Ueno, Nunes-Ueno Consulting
- Diverse perspectives, accessibility and inclusivity: From kids to older people, from women to minorities, and from physical to cognitive impairments, active travel is for all. Is everyone being heard?, Rachelle Forsyth-Ward, Transport North East
1D. Safety, speeds and schools
- Safe to school: A “best of” from Flanders, Bart Nobels, VSV (Vlaamse Stichting Verkeerskunde)
- School transport plans in the City of Bruges: Towards a kids-proof school commute throughout the entire city, Idelien Van Laer, Traject NV & Reinout Cloet, City of Bruges
- Ortsmitte: The Baden-Württemberg Approach to sustainable mobility for rural and suburban areas, Christoph Erdmenger, Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg
- Reducing speed in Brussels, measures to support 30km/h in the city, Hinko Van Geelen, BRRC & Bastien Demecheleer, Brussels Mobility
- ISA, get the basics in order faster, Erik Donkers, VIA Software & Gerard van Dijck, CROW
- Say cheese! Together for safer roads with semi-fixed cameras and automated fine and insight management, Astrid Thienpont, InTouch Solutions & Carl Schwenke, SecuRoad
1E. Democratising e-mobility
- Europe is driving electric but are citizens following too? The EAFO 2022 consumer monitor, Gabriela Barrera & Dennis Verbist, VUB-MOBI
- The transition to electric vehicles in Belgium: Why are private customers not buying it yet?, Evi Dons, Vias institute
- Raising awareness on budget-friendly electric and shared mobility, Nele Sergeant, Brussels Environment
- The implications of EU policies for the affordability of car use in the future, Rosanne Vanpee, Transport & Mobility Leuven
- A Just transition to e-mobility? Lessons from American & European communities, Aaron Fishbone, GreenWay / Front & Centered
- Zeroemission mobility made inclusive!, Cindy Welters, City of Rotterdam
1F. Fixing the last mile
- Linking freight trip generation and commercial curb use, Kelly Rula, University of Washington Urban Freight Lab
- Roadmap towards safe, efficient, integrated city logistics in Flanders, Domien Stubbe, VIL
- Ecozones, an urban logistics model increasing livability and air quality in cities, Eline Camerlinck, Bpost
- Sustainable neighbourhood logistics: Opportunities for hubs?, Wout Nijhuis & Koos Johannes, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
- Making space for logistics – A framework for collection and delivery points in Groningen, Lorena Axinte, Bax & Company & Sjouke van der Vlugt, City of Groningen
- A fundamental last-mile solution within reach: Implementing urban consolidation centers made simple and accessible, Angel Batalla, Last Mile Team
1G. Gender equal mobility: Are we asking the right questions?
- Does MaaS address the challenges of multi-modal families? User perspectives from Brussels, Belgium, Erin Cooper, KU Leuven
- STEP UP: How to improve women’s perception of safety while walking through GIS and app-data, Lily Scarponi, Fondazione Transform Transport ETS
- Methodological guide and self-assessment tool to integrate a gender perspective in urban mobility plans, Sara Ortiz Escalante, COL·LECTIU PUNT6, SCCL
- Identifying the biases and gender data gaps in mobility services, Lina Mosshammer, Punkt vor Strich
Full session presentations here
1H. Let’s co-create!
- Between strategic, regional and local needs: Citizen participation on a regional scale for the SUMP of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Eugenia Kolb, Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg
- A new approach to sustainable mobility strategies in areas of economic activity: The case of Vic and Gurb (Barcelona), Xavier Sanyer Matias, Metropolitan Transport Authority of Barcelona & Joana Rodríguez Bergadà, Municipality of Vic
- Combo of innovative citizen science and local cohesion ensures modal shift and reduced emissions when school streets are introduced, Wouter Florizoone, Telraam
- Let it seep in! – Depaving and greening our city together with the citizens of Leuven, Baptist Vlaeminck, City of Leuven
- Using a gamified approach for co-creating inclusive public transport in 10 European cities, Eli Nomes, City of Leuven
Opening Plenary Session: It’s the economy, stupid!
2A. Mobility for proximity
- Implementing the 15-minute city: An accessibility and proximity knowledge hub to bring research and practice closer together, Ndèye Aïta Cissé & Alain L’Hostis, Université Gustave Eiffel
- The 10-minute city: One size fits all?, Therese Steenberghen, KU Leuven
- Bicycle-Oriented Development: Going above and beyond the 15-minute-city concept, Paul van de Coevering, Stichting Breda University of Applied Sciences & Birgit Cannegieter, APPM
- Tune our Block! Transferability of Barcelona Superblock concepts in European cities, Lisa Ruhrort, Difu
- Rethinking the historical ring of Mechelen: A multi-layer approach, Jeroen Bastiaens, Sweco Belgium
2B. Decoding digital multimodal mobility platforms
- Monapass, Frédéric Laithier, Flowbird
- Soft law regulatory framework & a broad analysis of MaaS benefits – for a MaaS community in Turin and Piedmont, Carlotta Gasparini, 5T & Gloria Tarantino, City of Turin
- Driving public transport usage by harnessing the power of mobility super app!, David Koral, FREENOW
- MaaSsive promises – Pragmatic insights & perspectives, Francois-Joseph Van Audenhove, Arthur D. Little & Hans Arby, City of Gothenburg
2C. Putting cars on the (parking) spot
- Automated Valet Parking (AVP) as the key to a positive parking agenda in cities, Frank Daems, ERTICO
- Hype or hope – How to increase efficiency with vehicle parking data along real city use cases, Lena Heitmann, Mercedes-Benz AG
- SHARE-North Squared: What does a smart parking policy for car sharing look like? Good practices from on street parking and integration of shared mobility in housing developments, Johannes Rodenbach & Esther De Reys, Autodelen.net
- All our mistakes in the first implementations of parking policies, Anja Slapničar, IPoP – Institute for Spatial Policies
- Enriched Neighbourhoods – Mobility services reducing car use and enabling more housing, more greenery and better public space in car-dominated residential areas, Maria Schnurr, RISE
Get to know PARKPAD: The parking audit tool for Small and Medium Sized cities
2D. Leveraging data to advance safety
- From the internet to your homes: The impact of parcel deliveries on road safety in Belgium, Mathias De Roeck, Vias Institute
- Leveraging mobility data for safer cities: Multimodal approaches to road safety, Anne Legendre, VIANOVA
- Developing a decision support tool for traffic safety using open data, Rodric Frederix, Transport & Mobility Leuven
- Capacity building by monitoring safety performance indicators for road safety in the Netherlands, Eric de Kievit, CROW
2E. Governing innovation, innovating governance
- Monitoring the impact of innovations – A concept for supporting R&I solutions in the Austrian mobility system, Florian Supe, AustriaTech
- Accelerating mobility innovation with regulatory sandboxing and knowledge capture – European & international best practices, Kim Watts, SAFE/Coalition for Reimagined Mobility
- Shared mobility is not just a start-uppers’ matter, Tommaso Bonino, SRM Bologna
- Innovating governance in the digital age: The case of geofencing, Anna Forsell, City of Stockholm & Jan-Hendrik Müller, City of Munich
- Translation of the ambitious cycling vision of Flanders to the local governments, Sofie Van Campenhout, Vlaamse Overheid
2F. Local to global: Integrating urban nodes into the TEN-T network
- SUMP for Urban Nodes, Wolfgang Backhaus, Rupprecht Consult
- Strengthening links between TEN-T corridors and urban nodes, Tiina Ruohonen, City of Oslo
- TEN-T and urban nodes: How to bridge the gap?, Andrea Pasotto, Roma Servizi per la mobilità Srl
- The role of airports in TEN-T urban nodes: Air-rail integration and novel airport access options, Javier Burrieza, Nommon
- Redevelopment of the R0 – the ring road around Brussels – in accordance with TEN-T guidelines versus local access on a ring road, Frank Vanden Bulcke, De Werkvennootschap
2G. Next generation SUMPs
- Planning better for uncertainty in SUMP using different forms of scenarios, Tom Rye, Molde University College
- Planning sustainable urban mobility transitions at the metropolitan scale, Juliana Carvalho & Jorge Pinho de Sousa, FEUP – University of Porto | INESC TEC
- A multi-level governance tool to shape the future’s mobility: The Sustainable Regional Mobility Plan for the functional urban area of the Stuttgart region, Nadine Müller, Verband Region Stuttgart
- The third generation of Slovenia’s national support programme for SUMP and how it is already improving SUMPs, Aljaž Plevnik, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
- From fragmentation to integration: The role of transition super labs in accelerating the transformation of regions towards climate neutrality, Morgane Juliat, Rupprecht Consult & Thomas Meister, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- EIB’s SUMP capacity building programme, Paul Riley, EIB – JASPERS
Full session presentations here
2H. Hopping to hubs
- Mobility hubs in Brussels – From policy visioning to implementation, Martin Lefrancq, Brussels Mobility & Karolina Borzecka, The New Drive
- A network of 130 urban mobility hubs to cluster shared mobility, Mariet de Haas, Municipality of Rotterdam
- Local Network of shared mobility hubs in Enschede (NL), Thomas ter Elst, City of Enschede
- Co-creating multimodal transportation hubs – How to close the gap between actors across different levels, scales, and sectors?, Philippe Stadler Benz, SBB AG
- Mobility Hubs: The journey towards a more sustainable and equitable city, Sofia Taborda, EMEL
3A. Active modes fully activated
- Walking and Cycling: The PATH to global change, Jill Warren, European Cyclists’ Federation
- Smart cycling, Wim Dijkstra, Provincie Overijssel
- The Smart ways to Antwerp route planner: Multimodal travel advice and ground-breaking live navigation, Michiel Penne, City of Antwerp
- Bicipolitana Bolognese: A cycling-oriented cultural transition, Giulia Maroni, Metropolitan City of Bologna
- Voetgangersbarometer/ Baromètre Piéton – Belgium’s first major pedestrian survey, Naomé Carmeliet, Voetgangersbeweging vzw
- Sustainable activation model for daycares and schools – Continuum of increasing capabilities, opportunities and motivation in children and their parents, Anna-Kaisa Montonen, City of Turku
- Supporting cities’ innovative bike-friendly street designs: The Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure BICI, Ed Lancaster, Global Designing Cities Initiative
3B. Setting the rules of the game: Making cities AV-ready
- A roadmap towards automated public transport services in Helmond, Patrick Hofman & Matthieu Graindorge, City of Helmond
- Tele-operation bridging the gap to automated mobility – The 5G-Blueprint project, Eric Kenis, Vlaamse Overheid
- How to prepare the physical and digital infrastructure for CCAM?, Gerard Van Dijck, CROW & Peter Morsink, Royal HaskoningDHV
- Mi-Link – The first scheduled autonomous bus service in the UK, John Birtwistle, First Bus
- How service design affects the impacts of shared autonomous vehicles, a case study for the city of Leuven, Lotte Notelaers, KU Leuven
3C. UVARs: Regulating access, improving the vehicle fleet?
- Low- and zero-emission zones from an equity lens: How European cities and regions financially support the transition to zero-emission vehicles and alternative transport modes, Sandra Wappelhorst, ICCT – International Council on Clean Transportation
- Access management control policies and ITS control in Rome, Fabio Nussio, Roma Servizi per la mobilità Srl
- Implementing zero-emission zones in Amsterdam, Noortje Labrujere, City of Amsterdam
- Zero-emission zones for light and heavy vehicles in the central parts of Stockholm, Robin Billsjö, City of Stockholm
3D. Making micromobility safer
- On-demand lighting to support active travel in rural areas, Lei Chen, RISE & Anna-Sofia Alklind Taylor, University of Skövde
- Live regulation and risk prediction for electric scooters based on usage sensor data, Karolina Aaland & Arve Kirkevold, Norwegian Public Roads Administration
- How micromobility is leading the way in speed control and safe riding, Christy Pearson, VOI Technology
- Helping visually impaired people navigate the streets safely, Dustin Williams, Bolt
3E. Multimodal and zero-emissions: Thinking out of the car-box
- Transformative living labs in urban electric mobility, Oliver Lah, Urban Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI)
- The energy transition and mobility in the Amsterdam region: Towards a comprehensive regional energy strategy, David Uiterwaal & Gerard Hellburg, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
- Decarbonisation through innovation: Upscaling e-bus charging infrastructure, Iván López de la Casa, EMT Madrid
- Alternatives to oversized cars, Barend Jansen, Province of South-Holland
- Cargo bikes: A relevant solution for urban freight?, Jacques Menu, Urbike
3F. Regional mobility: Collaborate to innovate
- Employers’ approaches to sustainable mobility management in the Ljubljana urban region, Klemen Gostič, Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region
- The 2040 Ile-de-France Region Environmental Master Plan (SDRIF-E), Françoise Guaspare & Justin Le Bihan, Ile-de-France Europe
- The Cycle Superhighway collaboration – A unique regional cycle collaboration, Signe Helledi, Cycle Superhighways Capital Region, Denmark
Full session presentations here
3G. Digitising mobility in the US and Europe – Panel discussion
3H. It’s never too late to change
- Lessons from a national emergency active travel programme, Heid Jerstad, Sustrans
- 30 days going on 365: Lessons learned from the ’30 Days of Less Cars’ campaign, Esen Köse, Mpact & Barbara Janssens, Netwerk Duurzame Mobiliteit
- Pin Bike: Understanding and nudging sustainable urban mobility, Annarita Leserri, Pin Bike
- Bruxell’Air subsidy: Get rid of your car and get a sustainable mobility budget!, Elodie Mertz, Brussels Environment
- “Using the car? What do(n’t) you think?” Incentives/drivers for car use collected, Kevin van der Linden, City of Rotterdam
4A. Mastering micromobility
- Meta-analysis of e-scooter’s car mode replacement and what it explains, Nils Fearnley, Transportøkonomisk Institutt
- Antwerp’s micromobility policy, Jelle De Keyser, City of Antwerp
- From targeting e-scooters as a local problem to governing micromobility as part of the solution, Kamilla Kjølberg & Arve Kirkevold, Norwegian Public Roads Administration
- From chaos, clutter and collisions to a micromobility revolution: Oslo’s success story, Christina Moe Gjerde, VOI Technology
- Unlocking shared scooter potential: A comparative analysis of regulatory models, Eirini Zafeiratou, Bolt
- Ask for permission, not forgiveness: Lessons learned from the evolution of shared mobility regulation, Maxim Romain, Dott
- Taxing shared micro mobility: Best practices from cities, Xavier Mirailles, Lime
4B. Digging into mobility data
- Mobility map boosting sustainable mobility, Stella Aaltonen, City of Turku
- Tools for mobility data analysis, Nerea Rojas, MLC-ITS Euskadi
- Regional data team, shared costs, shared data, shared knowledge, Eric van Dijk & Waldo Kolk, Province of Utrecht
- GBFS: From bikeshare to MaaS, Josée Sabourin, MobilityData
- Connecting the dots – How in-car notifications can change urban mobility for the better, Marcus Knoppik, Mercedes-Benz AG
- Keeping grip on traffic by ensuring high-quality data for in-car traffic information services, Gerard Martens, VM-IVRA (Talking Traffic Programme) & Vincent Lau, City of Amsterdam
- Bringing transport data into the digital age, Thomas Oesterle & Tamara Strassheim, City of Stuttgart
- Unlocking the value of data through Drive Sweden’s Innovation Program, Malin Andersson, Drive Sweden & Jonas Järnfeldt, The Train Brain & Jonathan Selbie, Univrses
4C. Mobility as a right, public transport as a service – In cooperation with UPPER
- A new public transport business model for quality of life, Mark Degenkamp & Constance Winnips, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
- Creation of a new regional rapid transit bus network (BRT), Cédric Aubouin, Ile-de-France Europe
- Making Bologna’s public transport and mobility services smarter and more sustainable, Mauro Borioni Metropolitan City of Bologna
- UPPER’s tools and methods for better public transport, Mircea Steriu, UITP
- Navigating complex technology needs for public transport: Publicly available decision-making tools & methods, Janae Futrell, Civic Sphere
- The potential of Smart Mobility Hubs – Results of a large-scale choice experiment, Kelt Garritsen, University of Twente
- How integrating the bike sharing system with public transport can replace car trips and decongest popular public transport lines, Marion Galan Alfonso, Donkey Republic
4D. When urban planning meets logistics: Pathways to SULPs
- Roadmapping urban freight governance: Sustainable visions, targets, and pathways for SULPs and LEZs/ZEZs, Regina Clewlow, Populus
- SULPs: Building a governance, integrating urban freight in public policies and moving into action/implementation, Lucie Carriou, CEREMA
- New SULP for Stockholm – A roadmap to 100 % electrified freight transport by 2030, Victoria Herslöf, City of Stockholm
- The Rotterdam Roadmap: 3 years of experience in preparing the city for a 40 km2 Zero Emission zone for City Logistics, Tim Sjouke, City of Rotterdam
- Towards zero emission logistics – the Brussels Green Deal, Lucas Demuelenaere, Brussels Capital Region
- Local shops, sustainable drops: How the city of Leuven empowers local businesses while talking sustainable city logistics, Marij Lambert, City of Leuven
- Consolidated zero-emission deliveries for 1 shopping street under reconstruction, Roos Lowette, City of Mechelen
- Stakeholder engagement in the Sustainable Urban Logistics Planning: the case of Rome, Edoardo Marcucci & Valerio Gatta, Roma Tre University
- TACTIC (Tools for locAl Commerce logisTICs) Living Lab Barcelona, Ariadna Sancho Garcia, Barcelona City Council
4E. Embracing the SCALE: Accelerating the growth of e-mobility
- Smart charging with 100% green and locally produced energy in Mechelen, Veerle De Meyer, City of Mechelen & Emmanuel Vierstraete, Ingenium
- Developing market driven charging networks: Lessons from Turku’s charging masterplan, Jussi Saari, City of Turku
- Data-driven rollout strategy of public charging infrastructure for battery electric vehicles in a city context, Stefan Sallinger, VUB-MOBI & Damien Sury, Brussels Environment
- eCharge4Drivers – Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure for improved User Experience, Angel Lopez Rodriguez, Barcelona City Council
Panel discussion:
- Transforming urban EV charging Infrastructure: How UZE is empowering sustainable cities, David Coertjens, UZE
- Mapping out the future of charging, Gijs van der Poel, Urbanista Analytics
- Flex and the city: Why EV smart charging is a great match for consumers and the city’s energy network, Jaap Burger, Regulatory Assistance Project
- Flexible and smart charging, Mette Hoé, Rambøll
- Smart e-mobility in cities, Stefaan De Ganck, TotalEnergies Charging Solutions Belgium
4F. Mission impossible? Towards climate-neutrality by 2030
- Leuven’s first Climate City Contract – the road towards a climate neutral city, Jessie Van Couwenberghe, City of Leuven & Katrien Rycken, Leuven 2030 vzw
- Aligning transport decarbonisation across policy levels, Henrik Gudmundsson, Concito
- The perspective of climate-friendly urban development and mobility: A comparison of 10 European cities, Martina Hertel, Difu
- Patterns CO2: Data to measure modal shift and carbon footprint over a territory, Sylvain Hippolyte, Hove
- Exploring new ways of stakeholder involvement and commitments to sustainable mobility. Focus on the urban mobility commitments in the Leuven Climate City Contract, Hans Tindemans, Sweco Belgium & Tim Asperges, City of Leuven
Full session presentations here
4G. Stimulating sharing, and also in suburbia
- Solving challenges that shared mobility faces in 2024, Harry Maxwell, Fluctuo
- Shared mobility as a shared responsibility: Which public-private funding options lead to access for all?, Birgit Cannegieter, APPM & Astrid Zwegers, City of Eindhoven
- Bicimad: Bicycles for all, all over Madrid, Pedro Fernández, Municipality of Madrid
- Cash-back system for kick-starting new mobility services with a high service level, Hilke Evenepoel, City of Leuven
- Promoting sustainable and demand-responsive transport services in rural and suburban areas, Martin Schiefelbusch, NVBW – Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH & Benedikt Krams, Match Rider GmbH
- Implementing the largest European e-motosharing in the Barcelona metropolitan area, Mariona Conill de Azpiazu, Barcelona Metropolitan Area
- Decarbonisation and optimisation of suburban mobility, Santosh Rao Randa, Uber
- On-demand transport – How to avoid the pitfall of low productivity, Lukas Foljanty, The Routing Company
4H. Smart & Just
- Deployment of New Mobility Services whilst boosting just transition to leave no one behind, Edwin Mermans, Province of Noord-Brabant
- Can politicians make a difference in large scale deployment of new mobility services?, Arno Bonte, City of Helmond
- Involving citizens in transformation to smart, sustainable urban mobility: Easier said than done, Delphine Grandsart, European Passengers’ Federation
- How to enable public transport to compete with the convenience of cars, Dami Adebayo, The Routing Company
- Start and scale-ups as catalysts in deployment of new mobility services, Janneke Brouwer, Mobility Lab & New Mobility Services community
- Mainstream shared mobility complementary to public transport, walking and cycling to make cities better, Tjalle Groen, Mpact
- NXTMobility: Co-creating the building blocks for smart and integrated mobility, Stijn Vernaillen & Emilie Couwenberg, City of Antwerp
- Driverless technology boosting the uptake of new mobility services, Guido di Pasquale, PAVE Europe
- CityFlows – Toolbox, Yanick Van Hoeymissen, Imec
- Unlock full scale-up potential in a maturing mobility market, Niki Sie, Tekkoo
- Data 4 Oeiras: From Building to the Municipal Level, an Accessibility Index, Nuno Alpalhão, NOVA IMS – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Practical tools to make cities and neighbourhoods more accessible and inclusive, Luana Bidasca, EIT Urban Mobility
- CIVITAS and deployment of smart, sustainable, connected, shared urban mobility involving all stakeholders, Octavia Stepan, CINEA
Full session presentations here