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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:
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Partners:
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AET Transport and Mobility ForumThe 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 MobilityThe 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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ElsevierElsevier’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 WebinarsAll TMF Webinars are held on the first Thursday of every month at 1100 CET/1000 GMT |
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| 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:
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AET Transport and Mobility Forum Workgroup Members
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Derek HaldenDHC Loop Connections Engineering, planning, data, technology, research and analysis United Kingdom
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Derek Halden (UK) specialises in planning accessibility and connections to enable joint planning of the factors that drive travel demand together with transport supply. The global pandemic has changed people, places and transport making accessibility planning even more important than prior to the pandemic. I am working with AET to help develop the debate about these new challenges and responses, taking transport planning beyond traditional boundaries to further develop accessibility and connectivity planning. |  |
Jeffrey HowardRail Partners Policy Manager United Kingdom
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Jeffrey Howard (UK) is a railway policy manager at Rail Partners and a member of the AET Council. His policy work is focused on harnessing the experience and creativity of the UK's private railway operators in building a better railway. He joined the Transport and Mobility Forum to enhance and promote AET's leadership of transport debates in Europe. |
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Conall Mac AongusaMobimetrix – Ireland Independent Transport Planner Ireland
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Conall Mac Aongusa (IE) is Chair of the AET Webinars Group and is an Independent Transport Engineer and Planner from Ireland. He is a member of the Board of Directors of AET and a former Chair of AET Council from 2012-2016. I want to support the development of our new online webinar initiatives and resources so that AET has the potential to become the preferred platform for debate on transport in Europe. |  |
András MunkácsyKTI Institute for Transport Sciences Hungary
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András Munkácsy (HU) is a member of the AET Council and a senior researcher at KTI Institute for Transport Sciences in Budapest, where he is head of the Transport Development Research Centre. I am confident that the AET Transport and Mobility Forum goes far beyond a series of presentations. As a member of the working group, I intend to support and promote the discussion, meeting and networking opportunities these events can provide for transport professionals. |
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James OdeckNorwegian University of Science and Technology Norway
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James Odeck (NO) is a professor of transport economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim) and a senior research economist at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA). He specializes in applied transport economics and efficiency & productivity measurements. His research in transportation covers impact assessment and benefits cost analyses, monetary valuation of impacts, ex-post studies and cost overruns, and elasticity of transport demand. Odeck has published widely in re-known transportation journals such as Transportation Research Part A, Transportation, Transport policy, and Transport Reviews. The transportation sector is one of the public sectors with ongoing new developments, e.g., digitalization, automation, and a shift from fossil fuel to renewable energy. I am happy to work with AET to develop a platform for debating these new developments and other emerging transportation issues. Hopefully, the Webinar series will help AET take the leading role in transport debates internationally. |
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Jonathan SpearTransport Policy and Strategy Advisor United Arab Emirates
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Jonathan Spear (UAE) is a Transport Policy and Strategy Advisor with 26 years’ experience in public policy, strategy, governance and regulatory studies, capacity and skills analysis and building. Much of this has specialized in national, regional and local transport policy frameworks, institutional structures and processes. A Fellow of CIHT and a Chartered Transport Planning Professional, he has worked extensively in the international arena, including the UK and Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, and been based in London, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore. As well as the AET Transport and Mobility Forum, he is closely engaged in the activities of the World Road Association, PIARC, and the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation. |
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Ajeni Ari ThimnuTechnological University Dublin Ireland |
Ajeni Thimnu (IE) is a council member of AET, researcher of gender and transport and an assistant lecturer at TU Dublin. She has a wealth of experience gained from working with partners in Africa and Europe. She is a member of the mobility and transport forum, which spotlights matters of mobility and transport norms. She hopes to promote insightful discussion and networking that includes professional, academia, policy makers and informing upcoming aspirants on transport matters. |
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