On the Move Project: Academic Partners Meet to Advance Progress and Plan Future Activities The academic partners of the On the Move project recently gathered to review the progress of our various sub-projects and outline upcoming activities. This year promises to be exciting, with several meetings and workshops already planned to drive forward our research. […]
On April 18, the On the Move network gathered at Utrecht Central Station for an afternoon of learning, collaboration, and strategic thinking. The meeting was held at Bar Beton, where participants had the opportunity to connect over a walk-in lunch before diving into the day’s activities. Prof. Wijnand Veeneman kicked off the event with a […]
The Province of Gelderland (Bas Kippers) hosted the project’s societal partner on 28th June 2023. The mobility policy challenges of the province and the related uncertainties were presented by our host and discussed with the participants. The Province notably struggles with a decreasing service level in public transport, which might have structural implications for accessibility […]
In January 2023, we met with societal partners at ProRail in Rotterdam. Dr. Gerdien de Vries presented a psychological view on the (un)willingness of individuals to change behavior: what helps to make changes, and what not? She aimed to deeply explore the complexities regarding the relationship between change in mobility behavior and mobility system transition. […]
Last week I was asked to give a short speech at the “Dag van het Stationsgebied” (Day of the central station area) in Nijmegen, the kick-off of the public campaign for a large redevelopment project in the area of the central statin. In this talk about my research within the ‘On the Move’ project I […]
In her interview with Ov Magazine, Dr. Gerdien de Vries, one of On the Move’s key research coordinators, discusses the psychological barriers that deter people from switching to public transport despite being open to sustainable behavior. These “hassle factors” include micro-stresses like finding connections, transfers, crowded transport, etc. It is important to consider policies and […]
In May 2022 the project team met, for the first time, face-to-face with societal partners at the NS station in Amersfoort. The meeting includes two workshops. The first workshop focused on dealing with risks and uncertainty in complex projects (moderated by Ruben Akse, Red sub-project). The second workshop dealt with exploring the complex interactions between […]
In this online meeting, we included a brief presentation on the progress of the various subprojects. The main focus however was on presenting and discussing the experience with the project The Hague South West, jointly by the contact persons from The Hague and the involved On the Move researchers. In this collaboration with the municipality, […]
In this meeting, a workshop on transition management and transition scenarios was presented by Jan Nekkers and Jelle Schellekens from Futureconsult. In the workshop, participants worked on a scenario discovery exercise, moderated. Two online groups of researchers and partners of On the Move discussed and debated possible future scenarios on the mobility transition. How does […]
In this meeting, prof. Meurs presented an overview of different transition theories, followed by a discussion about to what degree the assumed mechanisms according to these theories are recognized in practice or experienced in different research projects. An important lesson was that none of the transition theories is clearly better than the others for understanding […]