Organiser: EIT Urban Mobility Emerging Leaders Program
Discover how peri-urban areas across Europe and the UK tackle viability for their transport policy and practice ambitions! Whether it’s evolving planning policy integration, uncoordinated growth, or changing densities and access, peri-urban areas are where mobility solutions and wider planning influences collide. This Open Café asks a central question: what peri-urban mobility solutions are viable – and under what conditions?
Bringing together the third cohort of the EIT Urban Mobility Emerging Leaders program (led by RMIT Europe), this session draws on real-world provocations from Barcelona (Spain), West Yorkshire (UK), the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (UK), Helmond (Netherlands) and Dublin (Ireland). Speakers and audience are invited to test assumptions, viability and interrogate trade-offs between scalability, affordability and impact.
• What are the core structural challenges shaping peri-urban mobility – and which are actually solvable?
• What is the single biggest barrier to delivering viable mobility solutions at the urban ‘edge’?
• Which solutions have worked in practice, which have failed, and why?
Attendees will leave with diagnostic insights for peri-urban mobility, practical insights into the demonstrating of different approaches, and a cross-regional understanding of financing and governing responsive mobility solutions. At a time of constrained resources and accelerating urban expansion, this session makes a simple but urgent case; the success of sustainable transport transitions will be determined not in city centres, but at their edges.
MODERATOR
Ingela Janbjer, Section Manager, Swedish Transport Agency
SPEAKERS
Ingela Janbjer, Section Manager, Swedish Transport Agency
Jack Lehane, Ecosystem Manager, Smart D8 and ADAPT Research Ireland Centre
Ben Kennedy, Head of Transport and Environment, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
Martin Davis, West Yorkshire
Nuria Peréz Sans, Head of the Mobility Department, Metròpoli Institute Barcelona
