Thinking Cities magazine #14

Thinking Cities #14 was launched online in reflection of the events related to the COVID-19 crisis and the redefinition of intra- and post-lockdown mobility urban mobility.

The original theme for this latest edition was 'Building The Resilient City', but the manner in which contributors have dealt with these unprecedented events changed Polis and H3B Media thinking: these cities are already resilient, finding new, innovative ways to keep things moving during this challenging time.

Alongside COVID-related articles, Polis and H3B Media are pleased to feature other high-quality, wide-ranging content on the latest innovations and developments in urban mobility. 'Testing the Resilient City' features articles from cities across Europe and beyond, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, Lyon, Oslo and Vienna.

Read Thinking Cities #14 'Testing the Resilient City' HERE!

A Multimodality Explosion

After discussing the liveable train station in the November 2019 issue, Simon Wind and Gustav Friis turn their attention to new mobility services and multimodality, reflecting on their role in the fut...Read more

Read more 14/09/2020

What’s The Rush? Sustainable Commuting in the Arnhem-Nijmegen City Region

In the Arnhem-Nijmegen City Region, more and more people cycle from home to work. The electric bicycle appears to be the best alternative to the car for a distance up to 20 kilometres. The a...Read more

Read more 15/09/2020

The Lifecycle Of An Assumption

Sustrans and Arup are on the cusp of publishing a report that focuses on the importance of inclusivity in cycling. Five members of the project team, Mei-Yee Man Oram, Susan Claris, Jasmine O’Gar...Read more

Read more 15/09/2020

Neglect and Survive: Mobility in Brussels

Dagmara Wrzesinska wonders if we are seeing a renaissance of mobility of Brussels… or should that be immobility?   Brussels: the economic, political and cultural centre of Europe....Read more

Read more 15/09/2020

Positive Feedback: A Fossil-Fuel Free Stockholm

The City of Stockholm aims to become fossil fuel-free and climate positive by 2040. The currently proposed Climate Action Plan 2020-2023 aims at taking the city to a maximum of 1.5 tonnes of CO2/inhab...Read more

Read more 16/09/2020

Gear and Now: Amsterdam’s Pedal-Driven Future

Amsterdam is a city powered by cycling. Ethel van Kesteren talks to Martin Sijmons, Amsterdam’s cycling infrastructure programme manager to take a look at how the city creating an exciting pedal-dri...Read more

Read more 16/09/2020

The Game Has Changed: Rethinking Urban Freight

COVID-19 is hitting all aspects of our society, with the global economy experiencing its largest crisis in years . Many industries, including urban freight have had to adjust their operations immediat...Read more

Read more 16/09/2020

The New Virtual Reality: How Simulations Can Help Manage Mobility Systems

How simulations can help to manage mobility systems during and after the COVID-19 crisis, by Dr Stefan Seer and Dr Johannes Müller The measures taken to contain COVID-19 infections have le...Read more

Read more 17/09/2020

Contain and Control: How public transport can learn from Hong Kong

How have cities such as Hong Kong contained COVID–19 without going into full lockdown? LIT Transit’s Head of Mobility, Ursa Hribernik, shares strategies used by one of the world’s leading tr...Read more

Read more 17/09/2020

Opportunity Knocks: Micromobility during COVID-19

Kristina Nilsson discusses the role and responsibility of micromobility operators in the COVID-19 crisis   Across Europe deserted city streets, absent of fast-walking pedestrians, c...Read more

Read more 17/09/2020

A Journey into the Unknown: Integrating new mobility solutions

Uber, Lime, Bird: How do new mobility solutions integrate successfully in urban areas? Niklas Schmalholz has the answer   Ride-hailing, bike-sharing, e-scooters or shared taxis: inh...Read more

Read more 17/09/2020

Stakeholder Engagement: Increasing sustainable mobility through SUMP

Alessia Giorgiutti on the importance of encouraging and enabling citizens to get actively involved in programmes and projects designed to increase the sustainable mobility efforts of their city...Read more

Read more 18/09/2020

Steps to Freedom: City sidewalks during and after COVID-19

Monika Litscher presents some field observations and thoughts related to sidewalks, public space and mobility in Swiss cities during the current pandemic as lessons to learn for a sustainable urban wa...Read more

Read more 21/09/2020

The People Have Spoken: Citizen science and mobility

The City of Leuven’s Kris Vanherle and Wouter Florizoone share insights on the mobility impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from an unexpected and fairly new data-source: Citizen Science! The...Read more

Read more 21/09/2020

The Future, But Sustainable: Climate-resilient transit hubs

We’re spinning towards climate-resilient transit hubs, according to Glenn Frommer and Anne Leemans   UN statistics reveal the world’s population annually grows on average by 83...Read more

Read more 21/09/2020

Open for business? Making car-free city centres work for everyone

More and more cities are seeking to remove cars from their centres, but opposition from business can be a major barrier. Jamie Wylie sets out the experience of Oslo to show how cities can make car-fre...Read more

Read more 22/09/2020

Two Peas in a Pod: Digital twins and connected logistics operations

Offline urban logistics operations need to be mirrored online - Digital Twins are helping to deliver the future, say Giacomo Lozzi and Claudia Ribeiro. The LEAD project will create Digital Twins of sh...Read more

Read more 22/09/2020

No Time Like The Present: MaaS in Berlin

Seven focus areas for MaaS beyond times of Corona, assessed by Justė Rastentytė   Sometimes we mystify urban mobility, as if we need quantified data to draw the most mundane of co...Read more

Read more 23/09/2020

How COVID-19 could lead to positive transformations, home and away

Practically every recipe for metropolitan area transport success, for healthier places, and for environmental transition to low and zero carbon, gets people out of private cars, even electric cars, on...Read more

Read more 25/09/2020

The Illusion of Inclusion: Cities through a gender lens

Why Smart Cities and Smart Mobilities might not turn out to be smart for all, by Tanu Priya Uteng PhD, Hilda Rømer Christensen PhD and Lena Levin PhD The gender lens provides a vantage poi...Read more

Read more 28/09/2020

Autonomous Driving: A challenge to CoEXist

Niklas Schmalholz and Suzanne Hoadley look at autonomous cars from the perspective of cities Getting out of the house, stepping into your car, telling it to go to the office, while leaning...Read more

Read more 28/09/2020

Instruments of Change: COVID and road safety investment

Lina Konstantinopoulou on why COVID-19 represents an infrastructure road safety investment opportunity for cities and regions The European Commission has recently presented a set of instrum...Read more

Read more 28/09/2020

Keeping Things Moving: A post lockdown mobility landscape

Cities and regions have acted quickly to adapt urban mobility to the challenges of COVID-19. In this article, Jamie Wylie and Karen Vancluysen explore how cities responded during lockdown, what can be...Read more

Read more 28/09/2020

Resilience in Action: Philippe Crist on what COVID-19 means for cities

Thinking Cities’ Jamie Wylie talks COVID-19 with Philippe Crist, the International Transport Forum’s Advisor, Innovation and Foresight, about the threats and opportunities, and how urban transport...Read more

Read more 08/10/2020