Worksession 1: Mobility|Society, a new approach to mobility
TU Delft Costanza Milano, Elmer van Grondelle
Mobility|Society is a unique TU Delft initiative. We have crafted a ninemonths programme that utilises a new approach from different fields and disciplines, with the aim of changing the conversation within society and its relationship with mobility.
The programme has three main objectives: creating a collective conscience, discovering new patterns of relations, and building a future Mobility|Society ‘framework’ that allows us to unravel a multiplicity of narratives and ‘research’ questions that matter for the future.
In this workshop we will iIdentify important relations and areas of impact of mobility on society for fostering future research to construct the future narrative of mobility. The team from the research project Mobility | Society would like the participants to join us into the process. Their input will be used for our work and project. Moreover, we challenge participants on their own perspective on mobility and widen their scope.
The session will be highly interactive at a fast pace. It consists of 3 main stages: debate session, mapping workshop and reflection.
We will post the results of the workshop on our website and use the future relations identified to deepen our research in the following months. We will also share the inputs and results with our growing network in our newsletter to possibly spark new collaborations/ideas.
Worksession 2: Workshop by the Embassy of Mobility; Redesigning mobility
Rob Adams, Embassy of Mobility
In this discussion session organized by the Embassy of Mobility we will have a discussion with our participants to understand what is necessary to design and build livable cities by rethinking public space. We will further discuss the ongoing experiments (15 minute city, green for cars) that the Embassy of Mobility has initiated. We would like to meet people who share this goal and are willing to support this movement.
The hope is that the experiments will be embraced by citizens, so they can be broadened. The results of the discussion will be used to evaluate and design new experiments.
Worksession 3: Using a digital twin to understand mobility challenges
NS: Joost van der Made, Mariska Slots, CleverFranke: Bob Corporaal
We are in the middle of a transition in which we must reorganize our country as a place where living, working, and mobility are redefined in sustainable and more human-centred ways.
Questions like where and how to build the many new houses are related to other big questions like how to deal with heavy congestion in urban areas and reduced mobility in rural areas and how to drive the transformation to use sustainable transport to meet the urgent sustainability goals. We can redesign society by planning the system as a whole. But this requires a deep understanding of this system. Not only by decision makers but also by other stakeholders like commuters, and business owners. They don’t need all the details, but are, ideally, able to understand options and decisions at a basic level.
Simulating the impact of different interventions on the overall mobility system in a ‘smart digital twin’ will be a great help to improve decision making and speed up the implementation of urban development programs. But what are the most important variables and data that are required to fuel such a model and truly capture impact and consequences? And how might we simplify these models to bring them to a broader audience in a simple way?
In this workshop we will explore a hypothetical digital twin for the desired Smart Urban Mobility System for the municipality of Eindhoven, using your professional and versatile expert input.
Together, we will identify the most important variables that impact the net capacity, attractiveness, and sustainability of an urban mobility system.
We want to understand the most important data sets and interrelations that will form the foundation of a possible digital twin for an Urban Mobility System. And then explore how the data and models might be made accessible digitally for a broader audience.
Participants will get a flavour of how the urbanization strategy interacts with mobility and sustainability and what are impactful interventions to achieve Smart City goals.
