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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 webinar
Sustainable Strategies for Urban Infrastructure: A Data-Driven Approach to Bridge and Quay Wall Restoration in Amsterdam
FREE Webinar: Thursday 3 July 2025
10.00-11.00 BST / 11.00-12.00 CEST
Written by: Carlijn van der Sluijs, Lara Borst and Kobus Zantema (Working at the municipality of Amsterdam in the Netherlands)
Winner of the Goudappel Land-Use/Transportation Award for the best paper written for and presented in a Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport at ETC 2024 in Antwerp: Lara Borst and Kobus Zantema, both from Gemeente Amsterdam, will present their award-winning paper exploring Amsterdam’s ambitious bridges and quay walls structural restoration programme, focusing particularly on an overview of the programme’s scope and goals, key insights from traffic research informing the concept of functional reassessment of infrastructure assets and a data driven analysis assessing mobility, accessibility, connectivity, and extra travel time impacts across the city’s road network.
With apparent opportunities and limitations offering factual input from discussions with stakeholders including policy considerations and location specific knowledge, the analysis reassesses the function of these assets.
Can the functional revaluation approach of changing traffic on these bridge assets by imposing restrictions on motorised traffic contribute to circularity through CO₂ emissions reduction, improved active travel options, enhanced urban liveability and value-added public spaces?
Join us for an engaging discussion on rethinking infrastructure function in support of circularity for liveable cities, Land Use Planning, Urban Mobility, Transport Engineering, and Environmental Sustainability.
Speakers and contributor
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Lara Borst
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Lara Borst is Innovation Manager at the Bridges and Quay Walls Program of the City of Amsterdam. She holds a master's degree in Transport, Infrastructure, and Logistics at Delft Technical University. She works, together with knowledge institutions, market parties, and other governments, on an innovative ecosystem for future-proof bridges and quay walls. One of the issues is the influence of and impact on traffic flows. |
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Kobus Zantema City of Amsterdam Netherlands |
Kobus Zantema is mobility researcher for the municipality of Amsterdam, with a focus on traffic modelling. He holds a master’s degree in Transport and Planning at Delft Technical University. As a researcher for the municipality of Amsterdam, most of his work consists of calculating the effects of new building projects on the city’s traffic network and keeping the Amsterdam traffic model up to date. |
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Paul Wilson Transport for London UK
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Paul is a Road Activity Manager at Transport for London. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Highway Engineers with 28 years experience in Engineering and Transport Planning. Each year there are over 40000 works/events impacting the Transport for London road network, and it is his role to keep the road network operating by coordinating and mitigating the impacts from the activities. |
Future TMF Webinars and Events
Click on the title links to register for the webinars in Zoom. Please note all webinars and events are subject to change.
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| October 2025 | Coming soon |
AET Transport and Mobility Forum Workgroup Members
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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. |  |
Christopher CaryAtkinsRéalis United Kingdom
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Chris Cary (UK) is a transport planner at AtkinsRéalis, where he works as a Practice Manager for Mobility and Place within the Transport Advisory and Consulting Practice. His background is focused on providing specialist transport input to the delivery of infrastructure, development and master planning projects both in the UK and Internationally. The Transport and Mobility Forum provides a fantastic platform for connecting the industry in the exchange of knowledge and ideas, so he is delighted to support the webinar series to further AET's standing as the primary platform for thought leadership in transportation. |
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Derek HaldenDHC Loop Connections 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 HowardUnited Kingdom
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Jeffrey Howard (UK) is Chair of the AET Council. He joined the Transport and Mobility Forum to enhance and promote AET's leadership of transport debates in Europe. |
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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. |  |
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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Dalia ZecchiKanton St. Gallen Switzerland
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Dalia Zecchi (CH) is a professional with extensive experience in consultancy, asset management, and digital transformation within civil infrastructure and transportation projects. Based in Zürich, she currently works as a Project Manager for the Department of Mobility and Transport Planning at the Kanton St. Gallen. Prior to relocating to Switzerland, Dalia worked in Milan, Italy, as a consultant for Accenture and Jacobs, serving key clients in the national transportation infrastructure market. She joined the AET in 2020 and now serves on the “Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum” Committee, as well as a member of the Transport and Mobility Forum (TMF) and Ambassador for Switzerland. Over the years, Dalia has been actively involved in the European Transport Conference (ETC) as a speaker and chairwoman. Besides work, Dalia is the founder of WiMIT – Women in Mobility, Infrastructure, and Transport, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and connecting women working in these sectors. |
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