Just Transition x Active Travel & Health Webinar: Designing for real choice—Infrastructure as enabler

The first webinar of the new Just Transition Webinar series on transport poverty and mobility justice, titled 'Designing for real choice—Infrastructure as enabler', will explore how walking, wheeling, and cycling infrastructure can reduce transport poverty, empower vulnerable groups, and make urban mobility more inclusive.

Organised by the Active Travel & Health Working Group with the support of the Just Transition Taskforce on 17 September 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 CEST, it is a fantastic way to celebrate EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK (16–22 September 2025), the European Commission’s flagship campaign to raise awareness about sustainable urban mobility.

This year’s EMW theme, Mobility for Everyone, highlights the importance of inclusive, accessible transport. In this spirit, the webinar will explore how safe, accessible, and inclusive street design can empower individuals by improving access to public transport and supporting multimodal journeys. From first- and last-mile connections to low-cost traffic calming measures, we will look at how reclaiming space from cars can deliver high-impact improvements in everyday mobility, especially for those most affected by social and transport inequities.

Meet our speakers

Judit Rab and Gergely Kofrán (BKK)
Lily Scarponi (Transform Transport)
Maria Risom Laursen (City of Copenhagen)
Mario Alves (International Federation of Pedestrians)

Moderated by Andréia Lopes Azevedo, Active Travel & Health Cluster Lead at POLIS

About the Just Transition Webinar Series

The Just Transition Webinar Series brings the Just Transition Agenda to life—advancing safer, more accessible, and more inclusive urban mobility.

Launched by POLIS in 2021, the series provides a platform for cities, regions, and stakeholders to explore how principles such as inclusion, diversity, affordability, gender, age, and cognitive accessibility can—and must—shape the mobility systems of tomorrow. Each session tackles a key dimension of mobility justice, from parking and freight to active travel and safety.

This new edition focuses on transport poverty, examining how cities and regions can confront mobility injustice through targeted, inclusive local action. Building on POLIS’ policy paper on the SCF, the series highlights strategies at the intersection of climate, equity, and mobility—showcasing concrete pathways to fair, sustainable, and structural change.

For any questions, please contact Alessia Giorgiutti, AGiorgiutti@polisnetwork.eu, Laura Babío, LBabio@polisnetwork.eu, and Andréia Lopes Azevedo, ALopes@polisnetwork.eu.