Metropolitan Mobility Podcast

“Mobility as a Service provides more mobility options to those that already have a lot of options.” Geert Kloppenburg and Carin ten Hage speak with Professor Sofia Ranchordás (University of Groningen) on how a municipality can inclusively redesign its mobility structure, the need for more social transportation and why transport poverty is invisible for most policymakers.

More information about Sofia Ranchordás research: www.rug.nl/staff/s.h.ranchordas/research
The paper "Smart Mobility and Transport Poverty: A Right to Urban Mobility?" (2020) can be found here: bit.ly/2yuB6UE

A Radical Redesign for Amsterdam is produced in behalf of the municipality of Amsterdam.

“Change never really happens that quickly, however if you were to take a ten year perspective on your life and look at what changed in that period, you would be pretty amazed at how much change had occurred.” Graham Currie, Professor of Public Transport at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) speaks with Geert Kloppenburg about how we can bridge the gap between university and industry, why it is so hard to change the mobility industry, and why driverless cars are not the change that we are looking for. 

World Transit Group Clearinghouse website: https://www.worldtransitresearch.info/

Public Transit Research Group website: http://publictransportresearchgroup.info/ 

“What would it mean if we actually treated pedestrians as we did motorways?” Urban planner Kent Lundberg (MRCagney) in conversation with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) on Auckland’s city center masterplan ‘Access for Everyone’ and more.

For more information on A4E: https://www.aucklandccmp.co.nz/ 

This episode was made in collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

Lightrail or Bus Rapid Transit? Lessons from Bogota Bus Rapid Transit for big European Metropolitan Areas? In this podcast I interview Christian Schreyer, CEO of TRANSDEV North and Central Europe, about his vision on how to keep Metropolitan Area's accessible in a sustainable way.

'Banning cars in Parisian tunnels to make way for cyclists, a miracle?' In this podcast, I cycle through Paris with Christophe Najdovski, the deputy mayor, to get at street level view of what Paris is doing making and why they are making this massive change.
(To not only listen, but also see how we cycle through Paris, go to www.geertkloppenburg.nl/visuals)

Changing the New York transport system with paint. "We completely closed down 14th street for private cars and Uber in Manhatten". Listen to Thomas Abdallah, Deputy VP at New York City Transit and prof. at the University of Columbia in NY. 

To see a visual about the change in 14th street in Manhatten, see www.geertkloppenburg.nl/visuals

Hoe moet je internationale trein tickets plannen, boeken en betalen? Waarom is dit ZO ingewikkeld? En hoe kan t beter? In gesprek met Arriën Kruyt, oud voorzitter van reizigersvereniging Rover en nu actief bij European Passenger Federation over de belangrijkste mythes rond internationaal treinreizen.

Carin ten Hage en ik blikken in deze compilatie aflevering terug op de belangrijkste conclusies uit de hele serie interviews in 2019, die wij gemaakt hebben, over de magie van Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

"Als bij Mobility as a Service alleen geoptimaliseerd wordt op business cases, dan hebben we straks echt een probleem". Aan t woord in deze podcast Eric Mink programmamanager MaaS bij Ministerie I en W.

'Reistijdwinst is DE norm onder alle uitroeptekens qua mobiliteit, maar vragen amber naar de onderliggende aannames en lopen achter de verkeerde dingen aan'. Aan t woord in deze zeer interessante podcast professor Marco te Brommelstroet aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam