Highlighting Transportation Innovation: Let's Go Dutch!

Join us in this session to learn how proven Mobility Best Practices and Emerging Technologies can deliver significant, measurable improvements in Multi-modal traffic flow, Transit performance and Greenhouse Gas Emissions – enough to exceed one nation’s Paris Accord goal. 

Europe has been investing billions in infrastructure and technology and, arguably, the Dutch have created some of the world's best coordinated multi-modal and intermodal traffic and infrastructure operations and management programs by using digital twins and AI.to model and manage congestion and air quality in real-time. 

American civil engineers now have the opportunity to make similar dramatic, positive impacts by deploying those proven solutions at scale, generating unprecedented value for communities – often quantified in reduced travel time/congestion, enhanced transit reliability and traffic safety, reduced noise and measurable reductions in transportation-related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. 

Public agencies can be enabled to control multi-modal traffic flow in real-time with scenarios and rules to implement Transit First, Vision Zero, micro-mobility initiatives, as well as truck route optimization, and emergency vehicle pre-emption. Combined with A.I. digital twins and technologies pioneered in the Netherlands, even some US cities like New York are now applying perimeter control and other innovative technologies to improve the livability and air quality within specified areas. 

The presentation will highlight a number of Dutch and US cities with real-world case studies and address the reality of urban transportation networks, their limited capacities, their outdated infrastructure, and challenges involved with multi-modal, inter-modal and alternate modalities (e.g., bike, pedestrian, micromobility, rail, connected/autonomous vehicles).