This document summarizes Karen Vancluysen's presentation on urban mobility challenges and policy goals. The main points are: 1) Urban mobility accounts for a large portion of CO2 and other pollutant emissions from transport. Goals include improving air quality, road safety, modal shifts to more sustainable options, and decarbonization. 2) During COVID lockdowns, there was a collapse in public transit use and boom in active travel, but a risk that congestion could return without changes. 3) Reallocating street space for walking, cycling, and public transport through low-cost measures is long overdue in many cities and can have significant health benefits if new habits formed during the pandemic stick

1. Respacing the streets,
Rebuilding the backbone,
Rethinking urban mobility
Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General, POLIS
GGSD Forum, 16 November 2021

2. Main urban mobility challenges & policy goals
Urban mobility accounts for
40 % of all CO2 emissions
of road transport and up to
70 % of other pollutants
from transport.
IMPROVE AIR
QUALITY
SAFER ROADS
VRU
MODAL
SHIFT
BEHAVIOUR
CHANGE
DECARBONISATION

3. From lockdown to gridlock?
Public transport
collapse
Car as safety bubble
Redistributed
space
Active travel
boom
Cleaner air
No congestion
Home-working ...

5. Respacing streets – Long overdue
Sources: Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Ile-de-France, Milan, Rome

6. “The street
is yours”
Source: City of Lisbon

7. Where are we now?
Source: ECF COVID-19 measures tracker - https://ecf.com/dashboard

8. How it’s going…
Source: ECF COVID-19 measures tracker - https://ecf.com/dashboard

9. Source: ECF COVID-19 measures trackerhttps://ecf.com/dashboard
“We scrape daily bicycle counts from 736 bicycle counters in 106 European
cities. We combine these with data on announced and completed pop-up bike
lane road work projects. Within 4 months, an average of 11.5 km of provisional
pop-up bike lanes have been built per city and the policy has increased cycling
between 11 and 48% on average. We calculate that the new infrastructure will
generate between $1 and $7 billion in health benefits per year if cycling habits
are sticky.”
Sebastian Kraus & Nicolas Koch
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
Source: COVID-19 Impacts on Cycling, 2019–2020.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01441647.2021.1914900

10. Fast-tracking

11. The city as urban space manager
Land use planning -
densification Pricing space
Prioritising modes
through space
reallocation
Dynamic kerbside
management
Parking

12. Enabling the 15’ City

13. Public Transport
Sources: EMT Madrid, Vässtrafik

14. Momentum for joining forces

15. Urban mobility ecosystem
There is no alternative to mass transit
• No other mode as efficient
• Equity, accessibility, affordability
• Needed for our cities to be livable and tackle
multiple other transport-related crises
Integration PT & shared mobility
• embrace a mix of mass transit
and shared mobility including active travel
• Public-Private Partnerships
• new business models
• subsidies
• Multimodality & Intermodality
picture: Zuid-Limburg bereikbaar

16. One Happy Family?

17. Physical AND Digital Integration

18. Polluter Pays

19. Transforming Transportation

20. Bouncing back
Bouncing Back

21. Thank you
kvancluysen@polisnetwork.eu
www.polisnetwork.eu