Serious game: Finding the optimal mix

We play the serious game 'The Optimal Mix' and share our findings of developing and playing it with a variety of professionals in the field. Playing helps policy makers, to discuss and reflect upon various societal goals and trade-offs to make when developing an 'optimal' mix of (emerging) modes and policies. The focus of the game is on passenger transport and policy, considering wider impacts of modes on cities wrt land use, equity, economy, accessibility and sustainability. Sofar, we successfully played the game in the Netherlands, India and the US (UN 2023) with over 300 satisfied people in total.

Presenters

Niels van Oort, Delft University of Technology Niels van Oort (1978), the conference chair of Urbanism Next 2024, works as an associate professor Public Transport and Shared Mobility at Delft University of Technology and is co-director of the Smart Public Transport Lab. He has been involved in public transport projects and research for over 20 years. His main fields of expertise are public transport planning and data-driven design, with special interest in the passenger perspective, multimodality and societal impact. Learn more about his research, courses and (media) exposure via https://nielsvanoort.weblog.tudelft.nl/