What We Talk About When We Talk About Inclusive Mobility

Location: Room - Diamond

Both policymakers and academics have seen an increase in the amount of attention given to inclusive mobility over the past several years. Everyone wants transportation systems to be more inclusive but people often approach discussions on inclusive mobility with different ideas about what it means and how to accomplish it. This workshop will have participants reflect on exclusions faced by certain people and certain groups. This will involve brief presentations about the inclusivity goals in the Netherlands and Amsterdam, followed by an interactive activity where participants will reflect on the different meanings of inclusivity mobility and share their ideas about how to create more inclusive transportation systems.

Presenters

Dr.Matthew Bruno, Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Delft

As a postdoc working with the Smart Public Transport Lab in the Transportation and Planning Department of Delft Technical University, my current research focuses on inclusive mobility. Through funding from the Amsterdam Transport Region, my three year project takes an expansive view of inclusive mobility and seeks to investigate all of the barriers that might keep people from getting where they want to go. Prior to completing my PhD at Eindhoven Technical University, I worked with various transportation planning agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

MissKelly Pronk, Policy Advisor, Vervoerregio Amsterdam

Marieke Smit, Head of the Strategy Department, Department of Innovation and Strategy for the Dutch Mobility of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

Marieke Smit is head of the Strategy department at the Department of Innovation and Strategy for the Dutch Mobility of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. She and her team play a pioneering role in the broad development of accessibility policy for the (medium) long term. They focus on transition tasks and on mobility as a system in relation to the environment.