The document discusses trends in urban mobility, including a shift from urban sprawl to re-urbanization since 2000. It notes challenges for urban transportation systems, including issues with accessibility in Amsterdam. Mobility trends in Amsterdam include increased biking, walking, and train trips, and reduced car use within the city. The document also discusses opportunities around ICT, sharefication/reduced ownership, and traffic control/cooperative systems. It proposes an Urban Mobility Lab to integrate multi-modal data and support education, research, product development and policymaking related to urban mobility challenges.

1. Launch
Conference
AMS

2. URBAN MOBILITY
- Welcome by Leo Kusters (TNO)
- Characterizing Urban Accessibility
(Jeroen Grooten)
- Trends in Urban Mobility (Serge
Hoogendoorn)
- The Urban Mobility Lab proposition
(Hans van Lint and Niels van Oort)
Programme

3. TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
Urbanisation and Mobility

4. UNTIL 2000…
• Expansion of human
populations away from central
urban areas into previously
remote and rural areas
• Spatial mismatch between
residences, jobs (job sprawl)
• High reliance on automobile,
problematic in terms of
transit, bicycle, and
pedestrian orientation
• Higher fuel consumption,
pollution and higher fatalities
per capita
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
FROM URBAN SPRAWL TO RE-URBANIZATION

5. UNTIL 2000…
• Expansion of human
populations away from central
urban areas into previously
remote and rural areas
• Spatial mismatch between
residences, jobs (job sprawl)
• High reliance on automobile,
problematic in terms of
transit, bicycle, and
pedestrian orientation
• Higher fuel consumption,
pollution and higher fatalities
per capita
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
FROM URBAN SPRAWL TO RE-URBANIZATION

6. SINCE 2000…
• Inner city redevelopments,
investments in housing,
gentrification
• Economic motives (reduce
cost of transportation,
improve opportunities for
jobs, education, housing,
healthcare)
• Move to sustainable
communities
• Rural flight
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
FROM URBAN SPRAWL TO RE-URBANIZATION

7. NOWADAYS, MOST PEOPLE LIVE IN CITIES!
• In broader sense:
urbanization also relates to
increasing importance of
urbanized regions as world-
economic focal points (output,
productivity, decision making,
and innovation)
• Connectivity (internal and
external) as important
boundary condition
• Accessibility of many urban
regions is problematic!
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
FROM URBAN SPRAWL TO RE-URBANIZATION

8. URBAN ACCESSIBILITY UNDER PRESSURE
• Projections accessibility
Amsterdam for transit and car
show that accessibility issues
remain
• Issues largest for short-
distance (inner-city) trips
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
AMSTERDAM REGION ACCESSIBILITY PROJECTIONS
Transit accessibility (2020)Short-distance trips (2030)

9. CHALLENGES IN URBAN TRANSPORTATION…
MOBILITY DEVELOPMENT AND TRENDS
Mobility trends (Amsterdam):
• Increase biking and walking
• Increase train trips to and
from city
• Reduction in use of car
(within city), public
transportation
Impacts of these trends on
utilization of space?
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
Strong increase in bike use for within-city trips

10. TRENDS IN MOBILITY LEAD TO NEW CHALLENGES…
CHALLENGES IN URBAN MOBILITY
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
Can we make transit more
attractive?
More (parking) space for
bikes!
Guarantee safety for
pedestrians during events
Dealing with crowdedness of
train stations

11. …BUT ALSO MANY OPPORTUNITIES!
OPPORTUNITIES AND NECESSITIES
• Role of ICT (e-Shopping
and e-Working)
• Sharefication: from
ownership to use?
• Intelligent Transport
Systems: innovations in
technology and
methodology
• Driverless cars,
electrification, connectivity
• The Big-data revolution
• Social demographic and
economic changes
• Financial limitations in public
funding and role government
• Need for new logistic concepts
(due to shift to local
production and recycling of
materials)
• Livability, sustainability,
safety remain pressing issues!
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY

12. ICT & NON-TRANSPORTATION
ROLE OF ICT?
Impacts of e-Shopping?
• Shopping activity reduction
less than expected due to
leisure function
• Logistics and distribution
issues
• Nett effect still unclear
Impacts of e-Work?
• Non-transportation or shift in
departure times?
• Generation effects (new trips,
e.g. by other household
members, need for sufficient
social interactions)
• Re-urban-sprawl?
• Large population with limited
e-Work opportunities…
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY

13. SHAREFICATION
Impacts of e-Work?
• Non-transportation of shift
in trip times?
• Substitution effects (new
trips, e.g. by other household
members)
• Re-urban-sprawl?
• Large population with
limited e-Work
opportunities…
From ownership to use…
An urban myth?
• Does ownership reduce due to
lifestyle changes?
• Recent studies show that car
purchases are only delayed
with a few years
• Still, sharing provides unique
opportunities that require
further investigation
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
GENERATION-Y AND REDUCTION OF CAR OWNERSHIP?

14. TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY

15. TRAFFIC CONTROL AND COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS
AMSTERDAM AS A LIVING LAB
What is it?
• First large scale FoT
integrated network
management
• Coordinated deployment of
traffic control, traffic
management, and in-car
measures
• Importance of real-time data
from multiple sources to
establish HQ information
Who is involved?
• Rijkswaterstaat, City of
Amsterdam, Noord Holland,
StadsRegio
• TU Delft, TNO, Vrije
Universiteit
• ARANE, Technolution, Vialis,
ARS, and many other
companies...
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY

16. KEY QUESTIONS FOR SHORT AND LONG-TERM
• How to make optimal use of societal, economic and technological
trends, while dealing with possible threats they may cause…
• What are the main bottlenecks in terms of accessibility, safety,
livability and sustainability now and in the future for recurrent
conditions, and during events and large roadworks (e.g. Zuidas)
• Understanding urban transport flows (personal and freight)
• Impacts of interventions and technological developments (e.g. ICT,
ITS and cooperative systems, flexible use of available space)?
• Design of new solutions, services, etc., to make optimal use of the
scarce infrastructure
• Proposition: Urban Mobility Lab
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
TRAFFIC CONTROL AND COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS

17. UML: WHAT IS IT?
• Part of the AMS data platform
• Bringing together multi-modal data (including
pedestrian and bike data, social-media data), as
well as data from other sectors (energy,
pollution, retail, socio-demographic data,
economic and leisure activities, etc.)
• Toolbox for data analyses and diagnostics, to
support education, research, product
development, and policy making
• Platform for model development
• Operational platform for development of services
for seamless (multi-modal) mobility of people
and goods
TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
URBAN MOBILITY LAB

18. TRENDS IN URBAN MOBILITY
URBAN MOBILITY LAB
UML DATABASE
Loops FCD GSM Surveys Emissions
and energy
Chip card
data
Twitter
DATA PROCESSING AND DIAGNOSTICS TOOLBOX
REAL-TIME
INFORMATION
LONG-TERM
PATTERNS
SHORT-CYCLIC
ASSESSMENT
MOBILITY
SERVICES
OFF-LINE INFORMATION