Following an EU China partnership agreement on urbanisation, a group of high level officials from China visited Brussels in June 2015. I presented a key note on Urban mobility planning practices in Europe.

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Don GUIKINK MSc
NHTV | Breda University of Applied Science
GUICK | Capacity Building for Mobility
guikink.d@nhtv.nl
don@guick.eu
The urban mobility observatory
Sustainable Urban Mobility Practices
in Europe

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Content:
• Development of Urban Mobility in Europe
• Some examples of Innovations
• Recommendations to China

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Why Planning is important

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Development of Urban Mobility in Europe
1980 1990 2000 2010
2020 /
2030
Infrastructure
Automotive
Urban Planning Mobility
Management+ +
Living
Laboratories +
Sustainable
Urban Mobility
Planning
(SUMP)
SustainableUrbanMobility
&SmartCities
=
Sectoral
Development
Companies
Involvement Innovation Planning &
Integration

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Traditional Planning  Sustainable Planning
PeopleVehicles
Traffic
Flows Accessibility
Quality of Life
Sectorial
Planning
Integrated
Planning
Planning
by Experts
Planning by all
Stakeholders

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Mobility
Management
Demand
Management
Collective
Transport
Clean
Vehicules
ITS
Less car
dependent
lifestyle
Freight &
Logistics
Safety and
Security Planning
Themes of Interventions

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Some Examples from European Cities

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Integrated Planning
Over 500 Cities in the EU Database
on Integrated Plans
Breda (Netherlands):
Integrated Campus Planning NHTV
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Collective Transport
Lyon (France):
Transit Oriented Development
Strasbourg (France):
Public Transport as backbone of the Urban
Transport System

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Less Car Dependent Lifestyle
Utrecht (Netherlands):
World’s Largest Underground Bicycle
Parking Garage (12.500 places)
Cycling Simulator Using Virtual
Reality

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Clean Vehicles & Fuels
Hybrid & Electric Buses in EU Cities
EU Clean Power for Transport
Package: 8 million charging points in
2020

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Mobility & Demand Management
Mobility Marketing
London (UK):
Congestion Charging & Parking
Management

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Safety & Security
Safe to School Campaigns
Innovative Street Lighting

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Intelligent Transport Systems
Netherlands: 1 Smart Card for all
Public Transport
Smart Sensing & Information Systems
Data & Sensing
Merging & Filtering
Information & Decision
Mobility Services
End User / Business Models

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Urban Logistics
Goods Delivery over Water
Bicycle Logistics

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Recommendations to China (1)
• Strategic Approach towards Sustainable Urban
Mobility Planning will have long-term benefits
• Reduction of (increasing) car-dependance
• Public Transport and non-motorised modes as backbone for
the urban transport system
• Focus on Transit Oriented Development
• Clean & energy efficient urban mobility
• Planning for people and not for vehicles

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Recommendations to China (2)
• Set-up a Chinese Platform on Sustainable Urban
Mobility
• Best practice exchange & capacity building for urban mobility
measures
• Development of planning tools adapted to the Chinese
context
• Innovation / Living laboratory to continue experiments with
new mobility measures
• Multi-level & multi-stakeholder cooperation across China
• Cooperation with Europe

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Don GUIKINK MSc
NHTV | Breda University of Applied Science
GUICK | Capacity Building for Mobility
guikink.d@nhtv.nl
don@guick.eu
The urban mobility observatory
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