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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
Neil Mansfield Award 2025 Winning Paper - "The impact of geographical context and the built environment on perception of bikeability"
FREE Webinar: Thursday 4 December 2025
10.00-11.00 GMT / 11.00-12.00 CET
This month’s TMF Webinar is being co-hosted and chaired by Dalia Zecchi (Kanton St. Gallen, CH) from the TMF Working Group with moderation by Andre Goncalves (Sweco, Belgium), Chair of the Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum (YRPF) Programme Committee and Council Member at AET. The Neil Mansfield Award 2025 winning paper will be presented by the author Marco Baldini, PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano, and will be followed by a guided discussion by Francesco de Fabiis, Postdoctoral Researcher at Politecnico di Milano.
The study investigates the factors influencing bikeability, defined as the perceived quality of a bicycle trip. The research uses discrete choice models (namely, Hybrid Choice Models) on revealed preference data from the Lombardy Region to identify both observable and latent constructs shaping bike trip experience. The findings reveal how perceptions of the built environment influence bikeability, offering guidance for designing sustainable urban cycling infrastructures including users' perceptions.
Speakers and contributor
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Marco Baldini Politecnico di Milano IT
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Marco Baldini graduated in Mobility Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2024. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the same University. His research focuses on sustainable urban mobility planning, using discrete choice models for bikeability and walkability assessment. |
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Francesco De Fabiis Politecnico di Milano IT |
Francesco De Fabiis is a Postdoctoral Researcher (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2025 he obtained his Ph.D. with honours (Cum Laude) with a dissertation focused on behavioural models to assess Urban Air Mobility (UAM) services. His research investigates innovative mobility services and policies and their socio-economic impacts, with a particular focus on advanced mobility data analysis and decision-making processes in transport systems. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and acts as a reviewer for several scientific journals, including Transport Policy and Case Studies on Transport Policy (Elsevier) and the European Transport Research Review (Springer). From 2020 he has been a member of AET's Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum (YRPF). He is also a member of the EIT. |
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.
| Date | Topic/Theme |
| 4 December 2025 | Presentation from the winner of the ETC Neil Mansfield Award, co-hosted by the Young Researchers' and Practitioners' Forum |
| 8 January 2026 | AET Fellows inaugural address |
| 5 February 2026 | tba |
| 5 March 2026 | TMF Hybrid Event (online and at the City of London) |
| 2 April 2026 | tba |
| 7 May 2026 | tba |
| 4 June 2026 | tba |
| 2 July 2026 | tba |
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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