POLIS Conference 2020 – Presentations
The POLIS Conference 2020 took place online from 30 November to 3 December 2020. Below you will find all the presentations from the event. Session recordings will be made available soon.
Opening Plenary Session: Winning Hearts and Minds. Accelerating Sustainable Change
1A. Size doesn’t matter: Boosting innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Cities
Presentations:
- Achieving sustainable mobility with limited resources – The new SUMP guide for smaller cities and towns, Lasse Brand, Rupprecht Consult
- The great small ones. The cases of Karditsa and Farkadona, Konstantinos Asikis, Farkadona Municipality & Natalia Tzellou, Municipality of Karditsa
- Lessons learned: On the road to automation for Small and Medium-sized Cities, Frank van den Bosch & Matthieu Graindorge, City of Helmond
- Public transport launching customer for green hydrogen. How an integrated approach of own and third-party projects can stimulate local greening policies, PPP, smart urban planning and technology?, Guido Rink, City of Emmen
- On-demand Transportation Platform – Adaptive Mobility in Alentejo, Carmen Carvalheira, CCDR Alentejo
1B. New traffic management tools and cooperation models
Presentations:
- Strategic routing for cooperative mobility information and management services, Claudia Baumgartner, VMZ Berlin Betreiberges
- Incident management in urban areas, Patrick Hofman, MAP Traffic Management
- Cooperative proactive traffic management in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam, Giovanni Huisken, Rijkswaterstaat
- TMaaS, a new cloud-based, vendor-neutral multimodal traffic management solution, Casper van Gheluwe, Ghent University
1C. Healthy urban and transport planning
Presentations:
- Urban and transport planning pathways to carbon-neutral, liveable and healthy cities, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal
- The Rotterdam Mobility Approach: Mobility as a game changer for an attractive and healthy city, Dorrith Dijkzeul, City of Rotterdam
- TfGM’s City system plan for health and transport towards meeting decarbonisation goals, Stuart Blackadder, Transport for Greater Manchester
- CycleOn: Safe cycling until you turn 100 – Healthy aging by stimulating elderly residents to keep on cycling, Mirthe Dolk, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water management
1D. Zero-emission transport: Don’t be afraid to start with freight!
Presentations:
- How can DPDgroup support you to make your city greener?, Dominique Mamcarz, DPD Group
- From theory to implementation of electric fleets – success factors and remaining challenges from the transport industry perspective, Dustin Schöder, Deutsche Bahn
- ZEUS: Zero Emission off-peak Urban Deliveries, Jonas Haustraete, Colruyt Group
MEET THE DUTCH: Mobility hubs
2A. In the corridors of TEN-T
Presentations:
- Building the policies: TEN-T Regulation revision, Reinhard Henke, Frankfurt Region, Jürgen Neumüller, Berlin-Brandenburg region, Vivian Stribos & Coen Mekers, Province of Gelderland & Cédric Aubouin, Ile-de-France Region
- CLINSH: Impacts of greening the inland shipping fleet, Annet van Lier, Province Zuid-Holland
- Developing Railway Corridors: The role and influence of an EGTC in large-scale European Railway Networks, Koen Beekhuis, Loendersloot Groep
- Ljubljana urban region’s SUMP: Participatory planning of accessibility to urban hubs and feeder connections from TEN-T corridors, Klemen Gostic, Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region
- (Arnhem-)Nijmegen charging ahead with zero-emission shipping on the Rhine Alpine corridor, Henk Nijhuis, City of Nijmegen & Geert Ritsema, Arnhem-Nijmegen City region
2B. Innovations in traffic management
Presentations:
- Environmentally sensitive traffic management: Identification of emission-critical driving situations & harmonisation of traffic flows in Stuttgart, Susanne Scherz, City of Stuttgart
- Mobility management during major construction projects, Matthias Van Wijnendaele, Beliris – pour Bruxelles – voor Brussel
- The Utrecht traffic management approach: Integrated network management, implementation, and regular maintenance management, Peter-Jan Kleevens, City of Utrecht
- The Network Resilience Live Lab: Network resilience evolution through innovation, Deborah Fox, Transport for West Midlands
2C. How can public authorities steer freight and service consolidation?
Presentations:
- Smart distribution & Buying local, Jeroen Berends & Sjouke van der Vlugt, City of Groningen
- A smart locker network in sustainable on-demand deliveries, Alexandra Winderickx, City of Mechelen
- Logistics in the Amsterdam University Quarter: The role of procurement in efficient and emission-free deliveries (Unavailable), Susanne Balm, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
2D. Changing travel behaviour
Presentations:
- Sustainable and blended learning: Post-Corona results from educational institutions, Wilko Huyink, Groningen Bereikbaar
- Smart Travel Habits – Nudging People Towards Climate Friendly Travel Habits, Katharina Paoli Brunat, Nudgd AB
- Campaigns and behavioural change: Approach, evaluation and plans for the future, Michiel Penne, City of Antwerp
- The New Mobility Network: Using a project of tomorrow to enable change today, Marijn Struyf, De Werkvennootschap
3A. Getting ready for the next decade of parking policies
Presentations:
- Novel approaches to estimate the temporal distribution of the demand for parking space, Sabine Scheel-Kopeinig, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
- Transforming car parks into mobility hubs in smart neighbourhoods, Stefanie Pichler, Fluidtime Data Services GmbH
- The role of dynamic kerbside and parking in automated mobility, Annie Reddaway, AppyWay
- Put a Face on Parking, Birgitta Morin, Ville de La Rochelle
3B. Governing MaaS
Presentations:
- The City of Things: Mobility as a Service for citizens via third-party payment schemes, Tim Asperges, City of Leuven
- MaaS: Biggest lessons learned in Rotterdam and The Hague, Richard van der Wulp, City of Rotterdam & Marc van der Burg, City of the Hague
- The YUMUV MaaS platform for cities: Exploring city mobility bundles, Rahel Känel, SBB AG NMD
3C. Co-creation and citizens engagement
Presentations:
- Integrating a participatory approach in the development of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, Maria Chatziathanasiou, CERTH/HIT
- Window chatting towards a sustainable neighbourhood, Hannelore Depypere, Mobiel21
- Working together on a cycle highway: How do we facilitate citizens engagement?, Rico Andriesse, Goudappel Coffeng
- Engaging Citizens on Future Urban Mobility Innovations, Jordi Ortuño, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
- Co-creation at the neighbourhood level: A boon to active mobility, Ralf Brand, Rupprecht Consult
3D. Risk Assessment: New methods and sources of data
Presentations:
- The power of vehicle data insights – how to overcome limitations of crash data, Matthias Mallik, Mercedes-Benz AG
- The road safety potential of big data: Ai-RAP and achieving the UN Road Safety Targets, Lina Konstantinopoulou, Eurorap
- Understanding vulnerable road user behaviour to assess road safety, Patricia La Torre, Humanising Autonomy
- Verkeer & Meer: The risk-driven approach to traffic safety, Shirley te Roller, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
MEET THE DUTCH: Smart charging the city
4A. Sustainable mobility in times of COVID-19
Presentations:
- Monitoring mobility patterns during corona crisis is essential for sustainable change, Sander van der Drift , DAT.mobility
- GoodMove goes viral: How Brussels took a big leap in reaching its SUMP goals in 2020, Frederik Depoortere, Brussels Mobility
- “Restarting Budapest” – how not to return to business as usual, András Vágány & László Sándor Kerényi, BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
- Measuring Impact of Social Distancing on Transport Interchanges, Anna Craciun, Transport for Greater Manchester
- How to enhance public transport resilience by combining it with Demand Responsive Transport: Learnings from Palma de Mallorca, Camila Gonzalez Arango, Spare
- MaaS – for and beyond times of crisis, Indre Blauzdziunaite, TRAFI
4B. Unlocking the data potential – Better data for better planning
Presentations:
- How data is influencing electric bus decision making in the Brussels region, Rob Roemers, STIB/MIVB
- Smart public transport network redesign, Robin Goix, SYSTRA & Franck Jacon, T2C
- How the region Of Hannover digitalises cycling, Elisabeth Felberbauer, Bike Citizens
- Bicycles and ITS: Making Cycling Smarter, Robin Kleine, Mobycon
- New data and digital tools to better understand and guide freight flows in urban regions – Examples from Île-de-France, Pierre Launay, Région Ile-de-France
- NXTMobility: The digital framework behind mobility solutions, Stijn Vernaillen, City of Antwerp
- Data is the new fuel, but what next? – UIA cities implementing innovative solutions, Iraklis Stamos, Urban Innovative Actions Initiative
4C. Promoting and integrating walking and cycling at urban and regional level
Presentations:
- How can we co-design infrastructure effectively in the early design and decision-making stages? Combining GIS analysis with safe and easy digital interaction for well-planned cycling routes or other regional infrastructure, Tessa Leferink, Witteveen+Bos
- Roadmap to 2025 for a sustainable metropolitan mobility, Xavier Sanyer Matias, Metropolitan Transport Authority Barcelona
- Feeding future cycle network planning, Joost de Kruijf, Breda University of Applied Sciences & Nathan Hooghof, Provincie Noord-Brabant
- Ankara Cycle Strategy Framework, Marco Mulder, ARUP
- Developing a human infrastructure toolkit for the bicycle-centric city, Lucas Snaije, BYCS
- Handle the emergency with planning, Silvia Basenghi, Metropolitan City of Bologna
- Reliably measuring and improving cycling in a multimodal urban environment – Lessons learned, Jop Spoelstra, Technolution
4D. PPP’s for New Mobility Services
- Cooperation models among public and private parties for new mobility solutions, Yannick Bousse, UITP & Pedro Machado, City of Lisbon
- Micromobility – Measuring impact and getting smart with subsidies, Alexander Frederiksen, Donkey Republic
- How micromobility and CityTech can transform public-private partnerships for mobility, Lucy Yu, VOI Technology
- Mobilib’: a sixfold increase since 2015 of round-trip station-based carsharing supply in Paris, Natalia Ciciarello, City of Paris
- Upscaling shared mobility for a Green Deal in Dresden, Frank L. Fiedler, City of Dresden & Julia Keller, Dresden Transport Authority DVB AG
- An Integrated Strategy of Shared Mobility Solutions in Aarhus, Gustav Friis, City of Aarhus
- Sharing Zones 2.0: Designing next level integration of micromobility at public train stations, Andri Wienandts & Thomas Schmid, SBB AG / NMD
- Micromobility: Cities working with operators – the case of Paris, Natalia Ciciarello, City of Paris and Nicolas Gorse, Dott
5A. Improved access for all
Presentations:
- Signing Dublin – Updating Dublin’s inner & outer bi-lingual orbital signs, Colm Ennis, Dublin City Council
- Challenges, opportunities and solutions to improve mobility in rural areas: The SMARTA Project, Andrea Lorenzini, MemEx srl
- Anima animation: A virtual experimental demonstration to all-inclusive access of public transport, Vincent Meijers, Gemeente Nijmegen
- Mobility poverty: Make the difference, Ricardo Poppeliers, Ecorys & Geert-Jan Verzijden, Gemeente Winterswijk
- Assessing digital travel information services for persons with disabilities and reduced mobility, Maria Rodrigues, Panteia
5B. Digitalising the infrastructure
Presentations:
- AI and IoT solutions for automated road inspections: Traffic signs and road surface, Estibaliz Barañano, ASIMOB
- Leveraging legislation for the provision of real-time traffic information, Edoardo Felici, European Commission, DG MOVE
- Digital Twins for urban planning (LEAD project), Sergio Fernández Balaguer, EMT Madrid
- Digitalisation and distribution of Environmental Zone information in the Amsterdam Region, Jan Maarten van den Berg, Rijkswaterstaat
5C. E-mobility solutions: Ready to integrate and scale-up!
- Working on a sustainable mobility system, Gerard Hellburg, Vervoerregio Amsterdam
- Fostering Urban E-Mobility through Smart Park and Charge, Julia Schmidt, Institut fuer Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilitaet e.V.
- e-Deal: Electric carsharing for governments and businesses in Flanders, Bram Seeuws, Autodelen.net & Ewout De Pauw, Solva
- Île-de-France Mobilités’ Energy Transition Strategy, Antoine De Jubecourt & Florent Savy, Île-de-France Mobilités
5D. Capacity Building for Road Safety
Presentations:
- Municipal road safety audit, the basis for a new direction for road safety work, Suzanne Andersson, City of Gothenburg, Urban Transport Administration
- Integrated approach to road safety on Antwerp’s ring road, Rico Andriesse, Goudappel Coffeng
- What would you do with €1 billion road safety money? The Dutch Risk Assessment Approach, Wilma Slinger, CROW
- Keeping pedestrians safe on Lisbon’s streets, Tiago Cunha Aleixo, City of Lisbon & Roman Rohrberg, Miovision
6A. Managing urban infrastructures
Presentations:
- The road to a BRT investment decision, Per Elvingson & Lovisa Blomér, Örebro Municipality
- From urban barrier to city street – Unlocking the streetscape potential of the Hisingen bridge in Gothenburg, Klara Jonsson, City of Gothenburg & Sara Brorström, Gothenburg University
- Nijmegen Central Station: Connecting and untangling modalities, Jasper Meekes, City of Nijmegen
- Sustainable urban accessibility in travel chains, Alan Hoekstra, Rijkswaterstaat & Kevin van der Linden, City of Rotterdam
- Dynamic Space Management. Insights from the MORE project, Peter Jones, University College London
6B. Shared data for shared mobility
Presentations:
- Policymaking to enable data sharing for sustainable urban transportation, Aman Chitkara, WBCSD
- Learnings for operators and city authorities from implementing micro-mobility management systems in a range of European markets, Thibault Castagne, Vianova
- Standardized data for micromobility: From GBFS to MaaS, Heidi Guenin, MobilityData
- Public / private data sharing in an on-demand urban mobility environment: Best practices, Tim Wiegels, FREE NOW
- Mobility Data and Privacy: Finding the Right Balance Between Making Data Accessible to fulfill Public Sector Mandates and Safeguarding Personal Information, Diego Canales Salas, Populus
6C. Reallocating space to promote active travel and create better places
Presentations:
- Rome’s approach to shared streets: “Isole Ambientali”, Enrico Stefano, City of Roma
- Governance needs to share ideas, sharing power to create better places, Pieter de Haan, Knowledge Center Shared Space
- How Covid19 has impacted parking and urban space, Patrick Auwerx, Mobiel 21 & Susan Tully, Edinburgh Napier University
- Re-firering cycling, new ambition and action on cycling in the Arnhem-Nijmegen City Region, Martijn J. te Lintelo, City of Arnhem
6D. Smart Cities & Smart Governance
- Full session presentations here
MEET THE DUTCH: Changing mobility behaviour
7A. Hubs and Nodes
Presentations:
- Mobility Hubs Implementation Framework, Olga Anapryenka, Steer
- Mobility Hubs: A new concept of urban multimodal space for all, Lorenza dell’Erba, Metropolitan City of Bologna
- Place-making, improving accessibility and reclaiming street space with mobility hubs, Rebecca Karbaumer, City of Bremen
- eHUBS in Belgium: Towards a regional physical and digital intermodal network, Bram Seeuws, Autodelen.net
7B. Mobility as a Service
Presentations:
- Multi-operator platforms system for MaaS: The Madrid approach, Juan Corro Beseler, EMT Madrid
- MaaS in Ile de France, Olivier Vacheret & Aurélien Belhocine, Ile-de-France Mobilités & Dylan Khélif, Cityway
- TOMP as the API standard for eHUBS and MaaS integration, Tjalle Groen, Taxistop vzw
- Is traffic management the unsung hero to make MaaS work?, Andy Taylor, Cubic Transportation Systems
7C. SUMPs: The next generation
Presentations:
- Transition towards sustainable mobility: The Sustainable Mobility Action Plan ’s-Hertogenbosch, Ron Bos, Gemeente ‘s-Hertogenbosch
- Supporting and monitoring SUMPs: SUMI indicator set and SUMP Self-Assessment, Marcel Braun & Susanne Böhler, Rupprecht Consult & Georgia Ayfantopoulou, CERTH
- Plan for Light Electric Mobility in a view of policy integration, Alessandro Drago, City of Rome & Maria Pia Fanti, Polytechnic University of Bari
- The success of voluntary multi-level cooperation in North Limburg, Peter van Wijlick, RMO Noord-Limburg & Ricardo Poppeliers, Ecorys
7D. Boom & Bonanza? Active travel in times of COVID-19
Presentations:
- Tracking COVID cycling investments in cities in Europe and ensuring a lasting green recovery, Jill Warren, European Cyclists’Federation
- Bike sharing in post-Covid times: Regulation, support schemes, integration and data sharing, Laurent Mercat, Cycling Industries Europe
- Preparing for the Day After – How Micromobility Can Get Communities Moving Past COVID-19, Fabian Ladda, Lime
- Mind the Gap! How nextbike kept cities and citizens moving when other modes fell out of favour, Jhon Alexander Ramirez Ospina, nextbike GmbH
8A. Expanding the UVAR toolbox
- Spatial interventions for urban vehicle access regulations – “good practice” examples in the CIVITAS-ReVeAL project, Koos Fransen, Ghent University
- Implementing zero-emission zones for city logistics in 40 Dutch cities and towns in 2025, Remco Hoogma, SPES & Jan-Willem Hommes, City of Eindhoven
- Superblocks for co-creating the Walkable City: Viennese Perspectives for resilience, liveability and sustainability, Florian Lorenz, Lorenz Consult
- Dynaxibility4CE – Adapting existing strategies to new mobility trends, Laura Babío, POLIS
8B. Planning for automated vehicles
Presentations:
- Automated vehicles in Dutch cities: 3 actions you can do now to prepare yourself, Richard van der Wulp, City of Rotterdam
- Roadmap towards automation of EMT buses: SHOW and AUTO-BUS, Sergio Fernández Balaguer, EMT Madrid
- Autonomous Vehicles: Stakeholder engagement and urban planning, Richard Laing, Robert Gordon University
- Building the capacity of cities to plan for automation – The Co-Exist automation-ready framework, Wolfgang Backhaus, Rupprecht Consult
- Supporting policy making and planning for automated vehicles – the LEVITATE policy support tool, Apostolos Ziakopoulos, National Transport University of Athens
8C. Future-proof e-charging infrastructure
Presentations:
- Building back better: Scaling adoption of electrified vehicles under the “new normal”, Jasmeet Khurana, WBCSD
- Policy guidelines: A multi-stakeholder approach for designing guidelines for publicly accessible EV charging infrastructures, Roland Ferwerda, NKL
- BENEFIC: European co-financing for regional deployment of infrastructure for alternative fuels, Simon Ruyters, Flanders Region
- Smart Charging and V2X evolution from innovation to procurement and operation, Esther van Bergen & Jorden van der Hoogt, Cenex Nederland
- Recommendations for public authorities procuring electric charging infrastructure, Alexander Verduyn, European Commission, DG MOVE
- Governance of local energy systems, Peter Swart, City of Arnhem