Urbanization Archieven - Arie Bleijenberg

The Future of Mobility

Which forces lie behind the development of our mobility in the past centuries and will most likely shape the future as well? The desire for speed is important, and so… Read More

Sustainable mobility: illusions and successes

Efforts to achieve sustainable mobility saw many illusions and only few successes. Fortunately, the successes were large. In shorthand: policies to force the use of cleaner vehicles and energy, have… Read More

How to make people travel less by car and plane?

This is the million-dollar question for many advocates of sustainable mobility. T&E - European Federation for Transport & Environment - invited me to present my insights and discuss these during… Read More

The transport-urbanisation dialectic

Why is it so hard to make people shift from car and plane to public transport? An important explanation is the strong link between mobility and spatial structure. Mobility behaviour… Read More

Five taboos about mobility

Five topics are kept off the table in the debate about mobility policy. Taboos are very effective in influencing policies. Relevant topics are kept out of publicity and off the… Read More

Road pricing

The International Transport Forum organized a Round Table, in which I participated as one of the experts. International best practices and new scientific insights have been combined to identify ways… Read More

Speed drives mobility

Speed determines the long term mobility developments; both how far we travel and which mode we choose. The car is door-to-door mostly faster than public transport and this explains the… Read More

Book ‘New Mobility’

My book ´New Mobility – Beyond the car era’ has been published in 2017. The coming decades will show surprising changes in our mobility. These result from the driving forces… Read More

Sustainable Accessibility of the Randstad

Spatial concentration in cities and towns increases both the accessibility and the sustainability. This is the core conclusion of the six year academic research programm Sustainable Accessibility of the Randstad… Read More

Delhi 2050 – Infrastructure and Urbanisation

Together with partners from India and the Netherlands, I have been involved in making a spatial vision for the future of this Indian metropolis. Delhi is expected to have 35… Read More

Will self-driving cars disrupt our moblity?

First indications: 50% more car travel and 50% less public transport. Together with Frances Sprei and Tom Alkim. Workshop Transport & Environment 20 March.

Long or short?

That is the (mobility) question. Transport & Environment workshop 20 March. My slides.

Decarbonizing transport

For the Benelux management committee travel and transport. Download my slides.

Renewal of aging infrastructures

Since the summer of 2021, I frequently presented the TNO-study Renewal of civil infrastructure - Dutch national forecast for replacement and renovation. Included are my views on the required improvments of asset management to get in control.