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AET Transport and Mobility Forum

The AET Transport and Mobility Forum promotes active engagement of AET members and member-groups with each other and with other like-minded transport organisations through supporting and hosting a range of activities including online webinars, seminars and discussions on a wide range of transport and transport related topics of interest. We welcome new members and new ideas about transport and how we talk about transport.

Upcoming Events

Moving Towards Mobility Justice: How can we achieve fairness and inclusion in mobility?

Thursday 1st June 2023
Webinar: 11.00 - 12.30 CEST (10.00 - 11.30 BST)
Upcoming webinars are free and open to both the general public and AET members.

The webinar is co-hosted with the Journal of Urban Mobility.

The webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Please register below for the webinar. Pre-registered participants will receive an automated email with joining instructions. Last minute registrants can access the webinar via the registration link.

Webinar Overview

We invite you to a webinar on Thursday 1st June 2023 hosted jointly by AET Transport and Mobility Forum and the Journal of Urban Mobility. In this webinar, the Journal’s Co-Editor-in-Chief, Dr Benjamin Büttner will moderate a discussion about Mobility Justice with Karen Lucas, Todd Litman, Marianne Weinreich and Jeroen Bastiaansen.

"In mobility planning, we have been prioritizing the advantaged population, or sometimes called "the majority," while excluding people with different mobility needs, abilities, and access to opportunities. How can we break the traditional planning process and achieve a fairer and more inclusive mobility? Some cities want to adopt a mobility justice approach, but they face challenges such as a lack of experience and difficulty in gaining public support and resources.

In this webinar, our aim is to gather advice on achieving a fairer and more inclusive mobility. Firstly, four guest speakers (an academic, a government-sector representative, and two practitioners) will discuss the concept of mobility justice, why it is needed, its societal and economic benefits, and the consequences of exclusion and injustices. Secondly, we will discuss the roles of academia, government, and practitioners in overcoming injustices. Finally, we will provide an online platform for the audience to share their concepts, needs, and advice in order to include citizens' interventions. By this, you can actively shape more just societies in the field of urban and transport planning.

We hope that this webinar will raise awareness of mobility injustices and support efforts towards a fairer and more inclusive mobility. Please share your thoughts on mobility justice on our MiroBoard: registered participants will receive a link by email inviting them to join us in Miro.

This webinar from the AET Transport and Mobility Forum and the Journal of Urban Mobility will explore the practical challenges of implementing these ideas by bringing together perspectives from policy makers, practitioners and academic researchers across Europe.  It will consider the opportunities and challenges posed and investigate the choices which need to be made in balancing technological progress with broader public value and social equity. 

The webinar will be introduced by Benjamin Büttner and David Duran of Technical University of Munich who will set the scene for how the debate on Mobility Justice has been evolving in recent years. This will be followed by three speakers and presentations as follows:

  • Karen Lucas – Professor in Human Geography, University of Manchester (UK);
  • Todd Litman - Founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (CA);
  • Marianne Weinreich – Market Manager: Smart Mobility, Ramboll Consultants (DK);
  • Jeroen Bastiaansen – Transport Researcher, PBL Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency (NL).

The topic will also be the subject of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal and will be an important theme at the European Transport Conference (ETC) being held in Milan in September this year.

Presenters:

Karen Lucas

Karen Lucas is Professor of Human Geography and Research Director at the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester and leads the Manchester Urban Institute’s theme on Transport and Mobilities.  Karen is a world-leading expert on transport and social justice in the Global North and South. She leads the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities (INTALInC), which is a global network of academics, policymakers, NGOs and frontline agencies to promote transport justice in Global South cities. She also researches issues of energy poverty and environmental and climate justice in the UK context, currently leading the High-End Energy Consumers project for the Centre for Research of Energy Demand Systems (CREDS), which is funded by UK Research and Innovation.

Todd Litman

Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis. 

Marianne Weinreich

Marianne Weinreich holds a Master in Scandinavian literature and language and World History, but for more than 20 years she has advised cities about sustainable mobility policy, promotion and mobility management. She’s an expert in cycling policy and promotion.  The last 5 years she been Market Manager in Ramboll’s Smart Mobility division where she besides working with clients is leading the thought leadership program. As part of that she was lead author of the report “Gender and (smart) mobility” published March 2021 and “Walking and cycling data – practice, challenges, needs and gaps” from Dec 2022. She is also co-founder and Chair of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark and an experienced speaker at and moderator of cycling and mobility webinars and conferences around the World.

Jeroen Bastiaanse

Jeroen Bastiaanssen is a transport researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). His research focuses on accessibility and its link to spatial planning and transport policy, with a primary focus on employment and social inclusion. He has received various awards for his work, including the SER Master thesis prize for his thesis on transport poverty and the NECTAR PhD award for his thesis on the impact of public transport access on employment outcomes. At PBL he has recently developed and published the Dutch National Accessibility Metrics, which has received significant attention in Dutch Parliament, among policy makers and in the national media.

 

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AET Transport and Mobility Forum

The AET Transport and Mobility Forum promotes active engagement of AET members and member-groups with each other and with other like-minded transport organisations through supporting and hosting a range of activities including online webinars, seminars and discussions on a wide range of transport and transport related topics of interest. We welcome new members and new ideas about transport and how we talk about transport.

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Journal of Urban Mobility

The Journal of Urban Mobility is a fully open access journal, initiated and supported by the EIT Urban Mobility, offering prompt publication and wide dissemination of new urban mobility research to a global audience. The journal publishes peer-reviewed contributions in all areas of urban mobility that will accelerate solutions that improve our collective use of livable urban spaces, while ensuring accessible, convenient, safe, efficient, sustainable and affordable multimodal mobility. The journal is unique in that it takes a systemic approach to urban mobility and encourages multi- or cross-disciplinary triple-helix publications, bringing together academics and practitioners, businesses (industry and small-and-medium-sized companies) and cities.

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Elsevier

Elsevier’s 30 transportation journals include many of the most highly ranked titles in the field and publish around 4,000 articles a year. These are supported by an active program of transportation books and the new International Encyclopedia of Transportation.  Elsevier is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. www.elsevier.com

 

 

Future Transport and Mobility Forum Webinars

All TMF Webinars are held on the first Thursday of every month at 1100 CET/1000 GMT

Date Theme/Topic Co-host(s) & Speakers
6th July 2023 What is System Dynamics and why use it in transport research and policy-making?

Co-hosted with Systems Dynamics Group

Speakers: 

  • Paul Pfaffenbichler, BOKU, Austria
  • Gillian Harrison, University of Leeds Institute for Transport Studies, UK

 

Previous Sessions (available to members only)

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