Polis Conference 2019 Presentations

The Polis Conference 2019 took place in Brussels on 27-28 November 2019. Below you will find all the presentations from the event.

 

1A BOOSTERS FOR CYCLING

• Safe cycle intersection – Trialling radar cycle detection in Dublin, Karen Hosie, Dublin City Council
• Cycling policy powered by data, an integrated approach, Nathan Hooghof, Province of Noord-Brabant & Joost de Kruijf, Breda University of Applied Sciences
• Promoting the bike at regional level – Catching up as a late starter, Christoph Erdmenger, Ministry of Transport Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Communicating the potential of cycling – Innovations from Sweden, Ulf Eriksson, Region Stockholm

1B. HARNESSING THE DATA POTENTIAL

• Sustainable mobility and data analysis: The SMASH project, Luca Giovannini, Dedagroup Public Services
• Data-enriched urban transportation policies in Breda, Paul van de Coevering, Breda University of Applied Sciences
• Taking control of the ticket vending machines by understanding and using the data, Rob Roemers, STIB-MIVB
• Past, present and future of transport modelling in Budapest, Tamás Halmos, BKK Centre for Budapest Transport

1C. PLANNING, DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES

• Gamechangers in last mile solutions at the Heijendaal campus in Nijmegen, Bas Kippers, Province of Gelderland
• City regions boosting sustainable mobility by strengthening clean international corridors, Arnout Smit, Arnhem Nijmegen City Region & Kevin van der Linden, Rijkswaterstaat
• The Squares of Grand Paris: Streetscaping intermodal hubs while building the new metro, Georgina Mendes & Thomas Barbé, Société du Grand Paris
• Hybrid Oriented Development (HOD) makes the change for sustainable cities, Erik Tetteroo, APPM & Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
• New technologies for optimal allocation of road space in urban areas: The MORE project, Paul Curtis, Vectos

1D. SAFER INFRASTRUCTURE AND VEHICLES IN CITIES AND REGIONS

• Intelligent Speed Assistance, Sophie van Velzen, City of Helmond
• The Bus Safety Standard and future casualty gaps, Alix Edwards, TRL & Kerri Cheek, Transport for London
• Cycling crashes risk assessment in road infrastructure types: A case study from Berlin, Rafael Milani Medeiros, Berlin Institute of Technology
• The New Paradigm for Safe City Streets, Pedro Homem de Gouveia, Polis

1E. SUMP: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW PRACTICES

• SUMP 2.0 – Moving towards implementation, Siegfried Rupprecht, Rupprecht Consult
• Good Move for Brussels – A participatory process for SUMPs, Bruno van Loveren, Bruxelles Mobilité
• Transferring good practices in SUMP development, Maria Chatziathanasiou & Maria Morfoulaki, CERTH/HIT
• Helping local transport authorities become AV-ready, Wolfgang Backhaus, Rupprecht Consult

1F. LOCAL AUTHORITIES TAKING OWNERSHIP OF URBAN FREIGHT MANAGEMENT

• Flanders: Teaming up for innovative and sustainable urban logistics, Jasper Van den Berghen, Government of Flanders – Department Mobility and Public Works
• The challenge: Towards integrated planning in SUMP Bologna Metropolitana, Catia Chiusaroli, Metropolitan City of Bologna
• Zero emission zones: Current experiences and potential logistics effects, Bram Kin, TNO
• Sustainable urban freight through clean and silent night operations, Robin Billsjö, City of Stockholm

1G. HAVING A VISION, BEING ON A MISSION

• Reshaping cities for light mobility, Philippe Crist, International Transport Forum at the OECD
• Integrated network management 3.0 – Should we be afraid of the private city?, Sylvain Haon, UITP
• Transition urban mobility pathways – Opportunities of innovative e-mobility solutions, Oliver Lah, UEMI
• Unlocking unprecedented data-driven decision making through new mobility solutions, Philippe Rapin, Urban Radar

OPENING PLENARY – KEYNOTE SPEECH

• Don’t Worry About Missing Out!, David Zipper, Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government

2A. UNDERSTANDING, PREDICTING, CHANGING BEHAVIOUR

• Understanding people who drive and how to deliver traffic restraint, Tim Burns, Sustrans
• School streets case studies from Southampton. How using temporary street closures and trial interventions can help to gain support for permanent changes, Hannah Chivers, Southampton City Council & Alan Wong, University of Southampton
• ViaLibera: Giving the streets back to the people, Francesco Iacorossi, Roma Servizi per la Mobilità
• “Veligo Location”: Deployment of a long-term e-bike rental service, Christian Gioria, Ile-de-France Mobilités

2B. THE CHANGING FACE OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

• TMaaS, a new, innovative approach to mobility management in small to medium-sized cities worldwide, Sophie Gillaerts, City of Ghent & Stephanie Leonard, TomTom
• The Dutch approach to multi-modal traffic management, Terry Albronda, City of Groningen
• Proof of concept Utrecht trilogy, The third and final book!, Peter-Jan Kleevens, City of Utrecht
• Innovation and technology for future mobility concepts in the City of Dresden, Robert Franke, City of Dresden

2C. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PARKING

• Managing kerbside access and policy with the digital evolution of on-street parking payment infrastructure, Thierry Brusseaux, Flowbird
• An empirical study into the effects of private automated vehicles on drivers’ parking location choice, Daphne van den Hurk, Goudappel Coffeng
• Ticketless entrance, payment and exit in parking garages in Gent, Katrien Vandenhecke, Mobiliteitsbedrijf Stad Gent
• From parking challenges to parking policy with data-driven public participation, Urban Jeriha, IPoP – Institute for Spatial Policies
• Step up your game in parking management: First outcomes of the PARK4SUMP project, Laurens Vander Kuylen, Mobiel 21

2D. BENCHMARKING ROAD SAFETY IN CITIES

• Mapping and visualising road safety data in areas of deprivation and what it teaches us about the reasons for risk inequality, Alexander Quayle & Alasdair Anderson, Sustrans Scotland
• In-depth collision research in urban environments, Nicola Hylands, TRL Ltd
• Data-driven road safety innovations for cities, Alexandre Santacreu, International Transport Forum
• The effect of mobility characteristics on road safety in European cities, George Yannis, National Technical University of Athens

2E. MEASURING EMISSIONS IN CITIES

• Clearing the Air! A consideration of the practical challenges of decarbonising city transport, Philip Blythe, UK Department for Transport
• Green NCAP, a new consumer programme for greener cars, Laurianne Krid, FIA Region I
• Air Quality mapping goes mobile in the streets of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Burtscher, VALEO thermal system
• Low Emission Zones policy: How remote sensing data can contribute, Sandra Wappelhorst, ICCT – International Council on Clean Transportation
• Smoke & Mirrors: Flanders addressing high vehicle emissions in real driving conditions, Roel Vaneerdeweg, Department for Environment and Spatial Development – Flanders Region

2F. INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR OPTIMISING URBAN FREIGHT MOVEMENTS

• New trends in urban freight transport: Stakeholder engagement to foster sustainable solutions, Edoardo Marcucci, University of Roma Tre
• Sustainable and attractive cities where people will want to live, without curbing their economic and commercial dynamism, Delphine Janicot, URBY, Groupe La Poste
• Smart on-street goods deliveries: Building on a big data analysis of the Vic pilot and Last-Mile Delivery innovation programmes in EU cities, Simon Hayes, PARKUNLOAD & Joana Rodriguez, Vic City Council
• Autonomous droid for urban deliveries, Constance Lauffet, CARA, European cluster for mobility solutions & Vincent Talon, TwinswHeel/SOBEN
• An insight into ALICE: The European Technology Platform for Logistics, Fernando Liesa, ALICE

2G. SECURING MOBILITY IN SMC’S, PERI-URBAN, AND RURAL AREAS

• Challenges and priorities for Small and Medium-Sized Cities, Guido Rink, City of Emmen
• Connecting Southampton – Better transport for a sustainable city, Iain Steane, Southampton City Council
• Innovative mobility and transport addressing the particular challenges of peri-urban areas. Findings from a multi-criteria analysis in France, Verena Ehrler, IFSTTAR
• Rural shared mobility in Europe: Key findings from the SMARTA Project, Lucia Cristea, European Integrated Project
• Welcome on board – Serving remote hilly areas in Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) thanks to DRT, András Ekés, Mobilissimus Ltd.

3A. ACTIVE TRAVEL AND SPACE DESIGN

• Transport’s role in improving health outcomes among younger people, Andy Cope, Sustrans
• Implementation strategy for walking and cycling for an attractive and healthy Rotterdam, Bart Christiaens, City of Rotterdam
• Adapting the city centre to shared mobility, Joanna Holi-Sosnowska, City of Czestochowa
• Glasgow Avenues Project, Derek Dunsire, Glasgow City Council

3B. ON THE ROAD TO AUTOMATION

• Enhanced traffic management of connected and automated vehicles in transition areas, Sven Maerivoet, Transport & Mobility Leuven
• Road infrastructure challenges for automated vehicles, Kris Redant, Belgian Road Research Centre
• Automation functions on ElectriCity buses, Peter Lindgren, City of Gothenburg, Urban Transport Administration
• What do people want? Citizens’ views on driverless mobility in Lille, Benoît Wiatrak, Lille Métropole & Yves Mathieu, Missions Publiques

3C. ACCESS FOR ALL

• The blind side of shared mobility, Esen Köse, Taxistop & Merel Vansevenant, Autodelen.net
• Involving end users in the creation of inclusive mobility services, Evelien Marlier & Delphine Grandsart, European Passengers’ Federation
• Generating demand-responsive bus routes from social network data analysis, Stefano Persi, Mosaic Factor
• Measuring and improving urban accessibility in French Cities: Methods, policies and lessons learned, Pablo Carreras, Codra
• Rotterdam’s growth, a mobility transition and the role of public transport, Gert Jan Polhuis, Municipality of Rotterdam

3D. THE EUROPEAN START-UP PRIZE FOR MOBILITY: CHECKING OUT THE LATEST INNOVATIONS

• Eyes for Autonomous Vehicles, Paul Arndt, Business Development Manager, Blickfeld
• Carrying the future of congestion free cities, Erik de Winter, Co-Founder, Cargoroo
• Using data to inable better cycling, Antoine Laporte-Weywada, Head of Development, Geovelo
• Mobility for everyone, with everyone, Boris Pilichowski & Nicolas Andine, Co-CEOs, Karhoo
• Embedded intelligence to empower sustainable logistic, Nicolas Duvaut, CEO, K-ryole
• On-demand bus, Gerard Martret, Co-founder, Shotl

3E. TRANSPORT DIGITALISATION

• A city’s journey towards digitising roads and network management, Mikael Ivari, City of Gothenburg
• Data exchange for urban traffic management and multimodal traveller information: Success factors and challenges, Christian Kleine, HERE Technologies
• An innovative solution to turn transport data into EU compliance, Irene Celino, Cefriel

3F. SMART PROCUREMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE AND CLEAN TRANSPORT

• The largest zero-emission public transport tender in Europe to date: Lessons learned in Amsterdam, Sanne van Breukelen, Vervoerregio Amsterdam Regional Transport Authority
• Fuel cell bus deployment with the example of the JIVE projects, Sabrine Skiker, Hydrogen Europe
• An integrated process to develop the world’s first emission-free high-speed boats for public transport, Morten Berntsen & Lars Fabricius, Trøndelag County
• Sustainable infrastructural procurement for ‘The Roads of the Future’, Petrouchka den Dunnen, Province Zuid-Holland

3G. WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? WHAT DOES THE CITY NEED?

• Co-creating people-focussed mobility solutions one neighbourhood at a time, Ralf Brand, Rupprecht Consult & László Sándor Kerényi, BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
• SUMP in Rome: The process of co-creation and its approval, Fabio Nussio, Roma Servizi per la Mobilità
• Going beyond participation: Using co-creation to solve mobility problems in Brussels, Jesse Pappers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Telraam – Citizen science fills in blind spot of traffic counting, Laurens Vander Kuylen, Mobiel 21 & Wouter Florizoone, Transport & Mobility Leuven

4A. CLEAN ENERGY, SMART GRIDS AND ELECTRIC MOBILITY

• Clean energy and smart grids for electric vehicles, Mereille Klein Koerkamp Scheurs, Allego
• The role of smart, clean energy systems in powering transport in London, David Talbot, Transport for London
• Effective EV charging infrastructure roll-out: What’s in it for the grids?, Petar Georgiev, Eurelectric
• Vehicle2Grid and Smart Charging: Learning from 6 pilot cases, Robert van den Hoed, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
• A tale of three cities – Lessons from GrowSmarter and recommendations for upscaling and replication, Paul Fenton, City of Stockholm
• Fostering large scale adoption of smart e-mobility in European cities: MEISTER project, Sabrina Schimmel, Berlin Senate & Antonio Marqués, ETRA I+D

4B. INTEGRATED TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

• MAAS Madrid to promote rational mobility, Sergio Fernandez Balaguer, EMT Madrid
• “Integrated mobility” in Toulouse (MaaS), Vincent Georjon, Tisseo Collectivities
• Fare integration scheme for a seamless journey across the whole metropolitan area, Théo Fievet, Lille Métropole
• Amsterdam Region MaaS Vision: Finding the best possible MaaS ecosystem structure for the Amsterdam region, Thomas Geier, Vervoerregio Amsterdam Regional Transport Authority
• Open transport data for sustainable mobility: Experiences from Baden-Württemberg, Christian Förster, Ministry of Transport Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Make it simple – The fare and ticketing solution for public transportation in Stockholm, Henrik Palmér, SL/Stockholm public transport

4C. URBAN VEHICLE ACCESS REGULATIONS: CONSOLIDATION OR TRANSITION?

• UVAR in transition – first REVEAL findings, Lucy Sadler, Sadler Consultants
• Intelligent access for livable and sustainable European cities, Jop Spoelstra, Technolution
• Zero Emission (ZE) zones in the Netherlands. A Roadmap for medium-sized cities, Erik Lubberding, Buck Consultants International
• DPDgroup: stakeholder in air quality measurement, Dominique Mamcarz, DPDgroup
• Diesel and petrol ban in Brussels, Louise Duprez, Bruxelles Environnement
• SMART Low Emission Zone – Barcelona Ring Road Area, Carles Conill, Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
• Access regulation for trucks + 3.5 tonnes in the city of Antwerp, Laura Tavernier, City of Antwerp
• Driving Bans on Diesel Cars in Frankfurt am Main: Estimation of Potential Economic Costs, Tobias Hagen, Research Lab for Urban Transport – Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

4D. SMART CITIES: WHAT DO WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SMART?

• EIT Urban Mobility, Bernadette Bergsma, City of Eindhoven/EIT Urban Mobility
• More liveable cities through the deployment of new mobility services, Edwin Mermans, Province of Noord-Brabant
• Lessons from the large-scale deployment of C-ITS in complex urban areas, Tamara Goldsteen, City of Helmond & Giacomo Somma, Ertico
• Appropriate policy responses to the urban mobility transition – First insights from the SPROUT project, Aristos Halatsis, CERTH/HIT
• The innovative road to success: Building the first energy-producing road, Marijn Van Dijk, Dynniq Mobility Nederland BV
• The Mulhouse Mobility Account – Just about how easy MaaS should get, Laurent Glorieux, Cityway
• Smart Parking Solutions, Theo Thuis, European Parking Association
• Excellent Governance for New Mobility Services, Floris Bakermans, AT Osborne
• Sustainable Urban Freight transport, Danielle de Boer, Fontys University of applied science
• Intelligent Speed Assistance , Sophie van Velzen , City of Helmond
• Traffic Management – Launch of the TMaaS Observatory, Stephanie Leonard, TomTom
• Smart cycling and walking, Eléonore Venin, Charvet Digital Media / New Mobility Services

4E. MICROMOBILITY: IN FOR THE LONG RUN?

• Micromobility in Brussels: Temporary frenzy or lasting mobility solution?, Martin Lefranq, Bruxelles Mobilité
• Micro-mobility data for city benefit: The case of Washington, DC (USA), Iryna Bondarenko, The District of Columbia Department of Transportation
• The Paris micromobility charter, Natalia Ciciarello, City of Paris
• Does bike sharing work in medium to high modality cities?, Alexander Frederiksen, Donkey Republic
• Capitalising on nextbike trip data and client experiences to improve planning and livability, Dennis Steinsiek, nextbike GmbH
• Transforming urban mobility with electric vehicle sharing, Kristian Agerbo, VOI Technology
• E-Scooters: Building block of the “Verkehrswende”, Fabian Ladda, Lime

4F. NEW MOBILITY SERVICES: REGULATION & COOPERATION

• New mobility solutions, governance principles and regulation: The GECKO Knowledge Bank, Yannick Bousse, UITP
• Development and implementation of policies and governance by cities around New Mobility concepts, Geiske Bouma, TNO
• Car sharing in Europe: Different systems, different impacts, 10 common policy recommendations, Johannes Rodenbach, Autodelen.net
• Smart and shared mobility – What role for the municipality in the digitised transport system?, Axel Persson, Trivector
• Antwerp’s Marketplace for Mobility: Partnering with private mobility service providers, Chris Van Maroey, City of Antwerp
• Madrid’s “Lab” for e-shared mobility, Sergio Fernandez Balaguer, EMT Madrid

CLOSING PLENARY – KEYNOTE SPEECH

• How (WHY) it started, Jeannot Mersch, President, European Federation of Road Traffic Victims