Governance, COVID responses, and lessons on decision-making in uncertainty

This chapter introduces governance as the ruleset that stakeholders work with when making decisions, in this on how to deal with COVID crisis in public transport. This chapter looks at several countries and the way in which their decisions, shared between authorities (health and transport) and operators, have shaped the effects on ridership. In...

A design vision and strategy for a user-centred high quality public transport network in 2040

The high quality public transport network implemented by R-net, short for Randstadnet, follows a product formula on multiple public transport modalities (bus, tram, metro, and train) and acts as a quality mark. R-net is a collaboration between six public transport authorities and nine operators. However, currently R-net is confusing the...

Kanaän, or the suburb of the polycentric metropolis: using the energy transition in mobility to serve policy initiatives addressing the decline of population

If we do not anticipate for a transport revolution within 10 years, we are forced back to autarkic ways of life. Transport and our built environment are greatly interrelated. What if we could look at transport from the point of urban development? Is it possible to assess why a mode of transport is right for a city based on an urban impact we...

Seoul Bus 2030 - The host: Turning commuting into personal development