Annual POLIS Conference 2025 – Presentations

The POLIS Conference 2025 took place on 26 and 27 November in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Below you will find all the presentations from the event.

 

1A. Riding the Future: Cycling Innovation Transforming Urban Mobility

• ITS for cycling: What works, what doesn’t, and what it takes to succeed — Robin Kleine, Mobycon & Wim Dijkstra, Province of Overijssel
• Building & connecting suburbs Holland-style: Bicycle-oriented development in practice — Jan-Albert de Leur & Chris de Veer, Province of Noord-Holland
• Rome’s BICIPLAN: A driver for active mobility, sustainable tourism and the bike economy — Annalisa Contini & Chiara Di Majo, Roma Servizi per la Mobilità
• Urbanisation by bicycle: Measuring bicycle accessibility by using Bicycle Oriented Development (BOD)—New insights from the Arnhem-Nijmegen Green Metropolitan Region — Martijn Te Lintelo, Arnhem-Nijmegen Green Metropolitan Region
• Serendipity in the city: From A to Anywhere — Casper Van Gheluwe & Olivia Willems, Imec
• Place-based Micromobility Safety — Indranil Bhattacharya, Townmaking Institute

1B. From Modes to Movement: Digital Platforms Supporting Mobility Decisions

• Personalised travel advice to mitigate traffic disruptions: Insights from long-term infrastructure projects in the Netherlands — Floris Hooft, MAPtm & Niels van den Brink, ManEngenius/Rijkswaterstaat
• How we put 20,000 scooters and city bikes in your pocket: Innovation in the Ruter App — Pia-Suzann Skulevold, Ruter AS & Tom Nutley, Urban Sharing
• Smart Ways to Antwerp: Scaling mobility through digital integration and collaboration — Stijn Vernaillen, City of Antwerp
• Social values in future mobility systems: Lessons from MaaS — Karol Kurnicki, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde
• Technological platforms for citizen engagement in transport decision-making: Lessons from North America — Stephen Miller, Transit App

1C. From Isolation to Inclusion: Tackling Transport Poverty

• Île-de-France Mobilités’ roadmap for accessibility and inclusive mobility — Maximiliano Teke & Eline Henry, Île-de-France Mobilités
• “I finally get to see my friends in the next village again”: How demand-responsive transport can reduce transport poverty and strengthen social participation — Alexandra Bensler, Difu
• The Utrecht Fietsdeal: A building block towards an inclusive cycling culture — Rens Jonker, City of Utrecht & Angela van der Kloof, Mobycon
• Plug & Share: Empowering social housing with shared electric mobility — Chris Roorda, Brussels Environment
• Including equitable accessibility in SUMPS using IKOB as a breakthrough tool — Hans Voerknecht, Een Nieuwe Kijk

1D. Road Safety: Speed, Schools, Suburbia & Systematic Approaches

• Investigating the effect of 30 km/h speed limits on neighbourhood traffic safety perceptions: Insights from three case studies in the Netherlands — Famke Mölenberg, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam
• The impact of a city-wide 30km/h speed limit policy on active travel and liveability outcomes: A mixed-methods policy evaluation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands — Nicole den Braver, Amsterdam University Medical Centres
• School transport plans in the city of Bruges: Towards a citywide kids-proof school commute — Reinout Cloet, City of Brugge
• The Digital Road Manager — Erik Donkers, VIA Road Safety Software

1E. Cars and Carbs: Lifting Up LEVs

• Promoting the integration of clean L-category vehicles: Towards a better mobility of citizens and efficient light logistics — Antonio Perlot, ACEM
• GIANTS – tackling the urban and suburban passenger challenge with frugal zero-emission L-category vehicles — Stefan Werland, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy
• Unlocking electric urban mobility through standardisation of swappable battery systems for Light Electric Vehicles — Kirsten Glennung, CEN and CENELEC/Stan4SWAP
• The potential of Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) for the mobility transition — Paul Van de Coevering, Stichting Breda University of Applied Sciences

1F. Regional Routes to Sustainability

• A highly collaborative approach to developing the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan for the Île-de-France region — Zelia Hampikian, Île-de-France Mobilités
• The rocky road towards a future-proof P+R network around Amsterdam — Mark Degenkamp, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
• Sustainable travel chains in the Eastern and Western Uusimaa Region — Pasi Kouhia, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council
• GZM Metrobike: An (Eastern) European Lighthouse project connecting 31 cities with active mobility — Simon Stephan, nextbike GmbH
• Powering the transition: How RAL-Zuidwest builds a future-proof charging ecosystem — Max Klootwijk, Province of South-Holland

1G. Thinking Ahead: Innovative Steps for Small and Medium-Sized Cities

• Reshaping spatial & mobility patterns to sculpt a future-proof urban landscape — Wim Schuddinck, City of Ghent
• Tackling societal challenges with enhanced innovation capacity — Tess Tjokrodikromo, TNO
• Staying on the move in Japan: Delivering high-quality mobility for seniors in low-density areas when driving is no longer an option and public transport isn’t enough — Haruo Ishida, The Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP)/The University of Tsukuba
• A small city facing big changes: Helmond’s living lab approach to managing urban (mobility) growth — Matthieu Graindorge, City of Helmond
• Spoordok: The story of a former industrial district turned pedestrian-friendly for new inhabitants — Wieger Postma, Municipality of Leeuwarden

1H. The Power of Participation

• Paved with good intentions? When sustainable travel norms meet economic reality — Aslak Fyhri & Lars Even Egner, Institute of Transport Economics
• An opposing majority or a vocal minority? Measuring public support for sustainable local mobility policies in Flanders — Eva De Vrij, Mobiel 21
• Listen, improve, repeat: Enhancing public mobility services with citizen engagement—The Bicipark case — Sofia Taborda, EMEL
• Uniting communities for cleaner air: Telraam and Snuffelfiets elevate citizen science and policy impact in Utrecht — Eric van Dijk, Province of Utrecht & Petra Veeneman, Natuur en Milieufederatie Utrecht
• How to enjoy public participation in mobility planning – Public participation at the street theatre festival in the process of preparation of SUMP Ljubljana — Aidan Cerar & Anja Slapničar, IPoP – Institute for Spatial Policies

 

OPENING PLENARY

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

• Sam Johnson, Sustainable Transport Specialist, World Bank

 

2A. Pedestrian Power: Leading by Walking

• Striving for complete accessibility and enhanced walking experiences for all in Paris — Chiara Molinar, City of Paris
• Walk for life: A walking campaign for women 65+ — Helena Runesson & Cajsa Andersson, City of Lund
• Utrecht’s pedestrian policy: Paving the way to a walkable future — Dick van Veen & Birgit Cannegieter, City of Utrecht
• Redesigning the street to support walking: The ‘Pedestrian Friendly Paddepoel’ pilot in Groningen — Femke Niekerk & Frank Aikema, Municipality of Groningen
• Walking the talk: Boosting local expertise and shared knowledge for walkable public spaces in Wallonia (Belgium) — Jorine Callebert, Traject nv

2B. Beyond the Car: Multimodal Traffic Management and ITS

• Dynamic traffic management on the western city boulevard in Utrecht — Gideon Biegstraaten, City of Utrecht
• The deployment of Intelligent Traffic Lights (C-ITS) in Ghent and their role in the modal shift — Pieter-Jan Kröhle, City of Gent
• Circulation challenges: A data-driven approach for the city of Halle — Pieter Van Houwe, MINT
• The circulation paradox: Measuring the true environmental impact of urban access restrictions — Johan Joubert & Zhenhan Xander Peng, KU Leuven
• Towards smarter road management: Aligning traffic circulation plans with national road network functions — Gerard Martens, Rijkswaterstaat

2C. The Parking Puzzle

• Parking fees as a tool for more sustainable urban development: Examples from Örebro — Per Elvingson, Municipality of Örebro
• Parked resistance and how to deal with it through targeted communication — Mathias Schmid, NVBW Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg GmbH
• Building a comprehensive knowledge of public and private parking offer — Solen Guirriec, Lille Metropole
• Mobility standards instead of parking standards: Rethinking car parking requirements for housing — Martina Hertel, Difu
• Leveraging comprehensive data for smarter parking management — Pietro Peyron, Populus
• European Parking Association (EPA): EPA Manifesto 2025-2030 – Policy Priorities — Theo Thuis, EPA

2D. Confronting the Climate Crisis

• Dealing with the climate crisis: Individual mobility and adaptation strategies in a warmer world — Camille Krier, 6t-bureau de recherche
• Designing resilience: A policy lab approach to climate adaptation in municipal transport systems — Gunnel Göransson, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Heidelberg’s Climate Mobility Plan: Which measures and conditions are needed to become climate-neutral? — Hendrik Stalmann-Fischer, City of Heidelberg
• Removing resistance? An innovative method for nuanced, large-scale citizen participation in the mobility transition — Martijn de Vries, Delft University of Technology
• Mobility Safari: A serious game for urban mobility exploration — Stijn Vernaillen, City of Antwerp
• Heat transition as a driver of urban redevelopment — Tobias David, City of Leipzig

2E. Clean Routes Ahead? Low- and Zero-Emission Public Transport

• New BRT bus with high-level of service between Salt and Girona — Cristina Pou Fonollà & Albert Guillaumes Marcer, Generalitat de Catalunya
• EMT Madrid zero-emission buses: Procuring a model for sustainable urban mobility — Álvaro Rodríguez López de Guereña, EMT Madrid
• The decarbonisation of the first European public bus fleet — Antoine de Jubecourt, Île-de-France Mobilités
• Circular strategy on public procurement of municipal fleets: The experience of Bergamo — Gabriele Grea, Redmint Impresa Sociale scrl

2F. Freight in the Fast Lane: Harnessing Data for Sustainable Urban Deliveries

• Innovation Lab: Regulatory sandbox to drive innovation and accelerate data-driven urban logistics — Leire Balzategui Urrutia, City of Vitoria-Gasteiz
• Spatial analytics for smart cities: Optimising urban logistics in Las Rozas — Nuria Blanco Caballero, Las Rozas Innova
• Enhancing urban logistics through data-driven loading zone planning in Helsinki — Matias Oikari, Forum Virium Helsinki
• Efficient loading areas: Gothenburg’s pilot in smart urban traffic zones — Kristina Bäck Jensen, City of Gothenburg
• Optimal loading zones in Munich: Balancing competing priorities through data-driven curb management — Gian-Luca Tellenbach, VIANOVA & Christiane Behrisch, City of Munich
• GREEN-LOG’s Logistics-as-a-Service in action: Sustainable delivery of local products, food surpluses and e-commerce in 3 Belgian cities — Steve Corens, VIL
• Using the agile methodology to fast-track innovation scale-up in multi-stakeholder urban logistics projects: The DISCO living labs case — Thato Motloung, Stichting Breda University of Applied Sciences & Katy Huaylla, Rupprecht Consult

2G. Intersectionality: Mobility for and by Whom?

• Unpacking the average: How gender and care reveal the limits of mobility data — Zosia Nowakowska & Camille Coussirat Piazza, City of Amsterdam
• Embedding justice in urban mobility governance: A comparative analysis of active mobility strategies in European SUMPs — Francesca Blanc, LINKS Foundation
• Governance for all: Ensuring a just transition in the socio-economic impacts of CCAM — Christos Gkartzonikas, MaasLab
• Intersectionality in the Transport Sector: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — Dagmara Wrzesińska, Cubic
• Addressing intersectional inequalities to improve working conditions for bus drivers: Insights from Sweden — Chiara Vitrano, The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)

2H. Mindsets in Motion

• The art of co-creating new mobility services in the city of Turku — Stella Aaltonen, City of Turku & Annika Kunnasvirta, Turku University of Applied Sciences
• Citizen science for reduction of car dependency: An interactive, scenario-based approach to understanding mobility behaviours and preferences — Gustav Friis, City of Aarhus
• How the Amsterdam Transport Authority learns from wishes, priorities and experiences from society — Machiel Kouwenberg, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
• How to effectively encourage behaviour change and engage citizens using digital nudging — Katharina Paoli, Nudgd
• How to nudge? Lessons from pilots on changing mobility behaviour — Vincent Joanknecht, City of Rotterdam & Maximilian Eckes, BMW Group

 

3A. Paved With Purpose: Streets for All

• Rethinking public space for more inclusive mobility: Insights from women’s mobility in Trikala — Eva Grigoriadou, urbana
• Tools to equip cities for the future: Co-creating, simulating and evaluating to address future challenges — Monica Olyslagers, iRAP
• Inclusive spaces: Reimagining public spaces through inclusive design, participatory practices, and assistive technologies — Katie Bulanowski, European Passengers’ Federation
• The SidewalkScanner: Bridging street-level data and citizen participation for equitable walkability — Geert van Waeg, International Federation of Pedestrians
• Walkability App to assist participatory public space interventions for walking and assess their impact in the Active Cities Project — Carlos Canas, Walk21
• How healthy is your street? Now you can find out instantly with a free phone-based tool — Lucy Saunders, Healthy Streets

3B. Steering CCAM Towards the Public Interest

• CCAM-readiness assessment and awareness raising — Wolfgang Backhaus & Daniel Franco, Rupprecht Consult
• Automated mobility: A policy-driven approach — Helmut Augustin, City of Vienna
• Pioneering project KIRA: The first Level-4-deployment in German public transport — Sofia Pavlakis, rms GmbH
• The role of the public transport operator in preparing cities and regions for CCAM — Gilles Tauzin, RATP Group
• A vision and concrete example of an integrated mobility system in 2050 and beyond — Philipp Oechslin, SBB AG

3C. Searching the Skies: Unpacking Urban Air Mobility

• Urban air mobility in action: From concept to reality — Renske Martijnse-Hartikka, Forum Virium Helsinki
• Innovative urban wildlife management with drones: Lessons from Stockholm’s beaches — Johanna Löfblom, City of Stockholm
• Societal embracement and city engagement in UAM and U-Space development — Patrick van Egmond, Luxmobility
• MUSE: Measuring the urban air mobility effect — Miguel Baena, Nommon

3D. Combating Crime in Transport

• Promoting women’s safety in public space & public transport: From research to construction at the Padre Cruz neighbourhood — Rita Jacinto, City of Lisbon
• Unseen and unreported: Shifting perspectives in gender-based violence in urban mobility — Jan Politiek, UITP
• Paying the fare: Understanding and improving fare compliance in Dutch public transport — Jerom Gotz, MuConsult
• The regional safety team (BRT) and the operational coordination centre of security (CCOS) — Nicolas Monrepos, Île-de-France Mobilités
• The neglected barrier: Bicycle theft and sustainable urban mobility — Torsten Peters, a.bike

3E. Cities Clearing the Air: Pathways to Zero-Pollution

• Lessons learned from the first data-driven placement of charging stations in Utrecht — Matthijs Kok, City of Utrecht
• Hamburg’s way towards zero-emission transport: How Hamburg supports the electromobility transition of their taxi fleet — Marvin Coböken, hySOLUTIONS GmbH
• The transition towards a zero-emission municipal fleet of the city of Amsterdam — Rob Kroon, FIER Sustainable Mobility
• Stockholm local transition: The city’s path towards an emission-free city — Anja Quester, City of Stockholm
• From 120 to 30 to 20: What works in tackling air pollution in Baden-Württemberg — Christoph Erdmenger, Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg
• Making of the Warsaw Low-Emission Zone: Navigating political, legal, and institutional challenges — Kaylin Lee, International Council on Clean Transportation

3F. Green Freight, Bright Future

• Streets & urban logistics — Giacomo Gallo, NEW ENVIRONMENTS & Daniel Casas-Valle, Urban Dynamics/the Future Design of
  Streets association
• Boston Delivers: A pilot for equitable last-mile e-bike deliveries — Ben Rosenblatt, Urban Freight Lab
• Curbside story in Budapest — Tamás Halmos, BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
• Quiet through the night: More liveable cities through transport when everyone is asleep? — Daniela Kirsch, Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics
• From ‘wheels to water’: Scaling waterborne urban freight transport — Finn Winkelmann, TNO & Stefan van Dorp, City of Utrecht
• Brussels’ corporate delivery plan — Jorine Callebert, Traject nv
• Epic fails compilation from the real world of urban freight (and why we embrace them) — Lorena Axinte, Bax

3G. From Emissions to Ambitions

• Climate Mobility Plan: A data-oriented approach on the path to climate neutrality. Insights into the contributions of different measures to CO2 emissions reduction — Rai Hanan Bashir & Torsten Seidel, NVBW Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg
• Tackling mobility decarbonisation challenges with data-driven decisions: Insights from the French PERP research programme — Nicolas Pernet, IFP Énergies nouvelles & Lucile Mendoza, Université Gustave Eiffel
• Bridging the gap in cities: Translating analytical insights into on-the-ground innovation actions — Kristy Tong, EIT Urban Mobility
• Policies and tools governing mobility: Overcoming barriers to sustainable practices within urban space constraints — Astrid Bjørgen & Marianne Ryghaug, SINTEF
• Employees as catalysts for sustainable urban mobility — Lucia Burtnik, University of Bath

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3H. Optimal Orchestration of Shared Mobility Services

• Bridging the first- and last-mile gap with shared mobility and smart orchestration — Zafeira Gkioulou, ZF Group & Piotr Bielanski, Public Transport Authority in Krakow
• The car-sharing city: How The Hague empowers communities through cooperative shared mobility — Diede Labots, City of The Hague
• Rome’s actions to support and incentivise multi-modal journeys through the integration of PT and sharing services — Andrea Pasotto & Chiara Di Majo, Roma Servizi per la mobilità
• A stick-and-carrot playbook for business-to-city data sharing — Harald Sævareid, Nivel AS

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4A. Inclusive Spaces, Accessible Journeys

• How do you grow a city by 25% while improving quality of life? — Christiaan Kwantes, Goudappel Mobility Consultants & Christiaan ter Braack, Twente region
• Learning from an excellent example of SUMP 2.0: The case of Utrecht — Leon de Graaf, City of Utrecht
• Urban public space transformations and new mobilities in Southern Europe: Comparative case studies of Barcelona and Marseille — Luis Garcia Rios, Gustave Eiffel University
• Powering change together: Rotterdam’s cross-silo community approach — Karen van der Spek, City of Rotterdam
• Moving through living landscapes: Breathing life into mobility corridors through ecological integration — David Uiterwaal & Monique Vloeijberghs, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
• Reimagining urban spaces: Stockholm’s journey toward a greener, people-centred city — Joanna Saber, City of Stockholm
• Implementing a car-free city centre in a small city — Maarten De Schepper, City of Hasselt
• Learning from Tilburg’s station district: From inaccessible industrial site as barrier within the city towards a liveable urban hotspot as connector within the city — Ruben Senden, Kragten & Joep Frenken, Municipality of Tilburg

4B. Bits & Brains: Data-Driven Governance in Cities and Regions

• Unlocking next-gen urban mobility with EU space technologies: Insights from the JULIA and egeniouss projects — Josep Laborda, FACTUAL CONSULTING
• How much is enough? Exploring connected vehicle data representativity and utility across modes — Alex Pazuchanics, VIANOVA & Casper Van Gheluwe, Imec
• Empowering small cities through fine-grained, multimodal traffic data: The case of Telraam — Kris Vanherle, Telraam
• Revolutionising urban mobility: Insights from the Bolt & ETH Zurich research collaboration — Haya Verwoord Douidri, Bolt
• The role of regions in data harvesting and its support for cities & communities — Johannes Fischer, Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg
• The promise of data spaces for urban mobility — Morgan Siegel, acatech
• Data-driven main cycling network: What’s objectively “the best”? — Martijn van den Borne & Mathijs Ransijn, Province of Noord-Brabant
• Data-driven roadworks planning on a regional level in a multi-road authority environment — Rick Overvoorde, MAP traffic management (MAPtm) & Berend Feddes, Province of South-Holland

4C. Mobility as a Right – Public Transport as a Service

Group A – Boosting Public Transport Services

• Placing users at the centre of bus network redesign processes — Joana Cunha, Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa E.M., S.A.
• Continuously improving public transport in Madrid — Pedro Fernandez, Municipality of Madrid
• Boosting flexible integrated public transport solutions in Central European low population density areas — Tommaso Bonino, SRM – Public transport authority for Comune Bologna & Tamás Halmos, BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
• Reform of a public transport system in wartime conditions — Oleh Zabarylo, Department for Urban Mobility and Street Infrastructure of Lviv City Council

Group B – Boosting Public Transport Economics

• Access creates value: Funding public transport operations is a smart investment — Hilia Boris Iglesia, UITP & Rafael Alatriste Gamba, Transdev Group
• The GREENMO project, innovative financing for public transport infrastructure modernisation — François Briche & Guillaume Brebion, Lille Metropole
• Public transport to public mobility: Redefining governance and finance — Wim Dijkstra, Province of Overijssel
• New ways to fund public transport — Albert Guillaumes Marcer & Cristina Pou Fonollà, Generalitat de Catalunya
• Ex-ante and ex-post assessment of the German flatrate for public transport (Deutschlandticket) — Wolfgang Schade, M-Five GmbH Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics

4D. Plan or Perish – Preparing Urban Nodes for the Future

Group A – Urban Development and Connectivity

• Metro extension as a backbone for urban development — Manuel Pröll, City of Vienna
• The integrated planning approach of Bologna: Towards territorial strategies and measures for urban regeneration and sustainable mobility against silo-based policies — Lorenza dell’Erba, Metropolitan City of Bologna
• Rome, a “double capital” facing the challenges of the future through the modernisation of its mobility system — Chiara Di Majo, Roma Servizi per la Mobilità

Group B – SUMPs and Urban Nodes

• Challenges of SUMP in Slovenia: Results of the evaluation — Mojca Balant, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
• Using existing governance and institutional frameworks to speed up the process of Dutch SUMPs — Marco van Burgsteden, CROW
• The city of Leuven as new Urban Node in the TEN-T regulation: Challenges, opportunities and open questions explained through the CEF-project MUNOLENO — Tim Asperges, City of Leuven
• Budapest Mobility Report: The first monitoring report based on UMI — András Vágány, BKK Centre for Budapest Transport

4E. Two Wheels to Share

• The largest European e-moped & motorcycle sharing system in Barcelona Metropolis — Lorena Zurrón Hidalgo, Barcelona Metropolitan Area
• Applying social cost-benefit analysis to (rural) bicycle sharing schemes — Hannah Habekotté & Paolo Ruffino, Haskoning
• Micromobility meets public transport: Oslo’s mobility-focused regulation — Øyvind Kragh Kjos, Ruter AS
• What do the customers and clients really want? Designing a parity public bike sharing scheme based on professional B2C and B2B research — Mareike Rauchhaus, nextbike GmbH
• Designing micromobility that works: How Stockholm mastered fleet size, parking, and policy — Christy Pearson, Voi Technology AB
• Regional e-bike sharing: Enhancing interregional connectivity from city centres to rural areas in Belgium — Marion Galan Alfonso, Donkey Republic
• “Can you park that there?”: Solving urban clutter with data and design — Sofie Staelraeve, Lime & Stefan Schimmel, City of Rotterdam

4F. From Pilot to Policy: Scaling Urban Freight Innovations

• Smart logistics in the city: EMT Madrid’s Role in UNCHAIN to digitise last-mile deliveries — Sergio Fernández Balaguer, EMT MADRID
• Managing the modern curb: Digitising public space for smarter, fairer, and more dynamic cities — Gemma Schepers, City of Amsterdam
• The digital city wall: A vision for intelligent access, from national framework to curbside — Iskandar Tange, Coding the Curbs & Luuk Misdom, City of Helmond
• How RATP Solutions Ville, the urban services subsidiary of the RATP Group, contributes to cities’ ecological and social transitions — Celine Mazieres, RATP Group
• Sustainable urban logistics: Balancing sweet and sour in Utrecht — Stan de Caluwe, City of Utrecht
• Spotlog: Green and socially responsible city logistics innovations—From a covenant to a next generation SULP — Veerle De Meyer, City of Mechelen
• Why and how to implement cycle-logistics: Insights from data and practice with the BCLF & ColisActiv — Philippe Van de Casteele, BCLF & Romain Barbé, ColisActiv
• Work smarter, not harder: Charging ahead with green energy for shared eLCVs in Barcelona — Àngel López, Barcelona City Council & Bruno Flinois, Clem’

4G. Fighting Fake Freedom: Overcoming Forced Car Ownership

• Easy, fast, and reliable carpooling for commuters: The “Stuttgart fährt mit” platform — Patrick Daude, City of Stuttgart
• “Nina”: Community car sharing — Paolo Gandolfi, Municipality of Reggio Emilia
• Making shared mobility inclusive: Lessons from a social tariff pilot in Belgium — Trui Notebaert, Way To Go
• Reimagining on-demand transit: How public-private mixed on-demand fleets unlock a reliable alternative to private cars — Adrian Ulisse, Uber
• Beyond transport and housing: Spatial development as key for livable cities — Raymond Linssen, Province of South-Holland & Sinem Akyuz, City of Rijswijk
• Shared mobility in a preurban context: From strategic planning to a tangible business model — Søren Bom, Capital Region of Denmark, Centre for Regional Development & Katrine Vestergaard Petersen, Rudersdal
• JUSTNEXUS: A justice-centred nexus approach to rethinking mobility, housing, and energy transitions — Fronika de Wit, Utrecht University

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4H. Public-Private Partnerships Enabling Smart Solutions

• Deployment of new mobility services empowering urban nodes in the last-mile challenge — Edwin Mermans, Province of Noord-Brabant
• Utilising Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) data to investigate the impact of transport-oriented developments on the operation of BusConnects services in Greater Dublin — Dhruv Kadam & Brianna Greaney, National Transport Authority
• Users’ preferences on smart public services and green mobility hubs — Panagiotis Papantoniou, University of West Attica
• Mission-oriented AI adoption in cities and communities: Ensuring a safe and interoperable approach via testing and experimentation facilities — Marouane Lahmidi, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
• Software-driven mobility for a sustainable and resilient urban future — Fiona Peter, Siemens Mobility GmbH
• Trip-based public incentives (micro-subsidies) for new mobility services — Karina Maynard, Mobility Impact Market
• Scaling CCAM in Europe: Turning technological readiness into action — Leonor Madureira, Bax
• Riding together: What public-private partnerships for shared e-bikes operations taught us — Pauline Charrier, Voi Technology
• Smart Automated Parking: Scaling urban mobility through cross-industry and institutional collaborations — Sarab Tay-Guyot, Valeo BRAIN

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