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DRSC Director leads Urban Safari in Rotterdam
This summer, DRSC Director and Founder of GO-bility, Teije Gorris supported the first visit to the Netherlands of the World Bank’s Leaders in Urban Transport Planning (LUTP) program.
The program brings together city transport leaders from across the world to “gain the skills needed to identify, prepare, and implement holistic solutions to complex urban transport issues”. Through a series of interactive training workshops participants are given space to “assess the accessibility needs and challenges facing their own cities, balance different perspectives, and develop a solution that is the ‘best fit’ to local circumstances.”
Supported by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the Dutch Enterprise Agency, the LUTP delegation to the Netherlands included representatives from Colombia, Peru, Ethiopia, China and Mongolia. Over three days, the group visited the Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam to learn about the country’s different mobility projects and how it has succeeded in providing urban spaces that accommodate all road users safely.
Teije joined the group on the third day of the visit in Rotterdam where he led delegates on an urban safari bicycle tour. The focus of the tour was to emphasise the human dimension within traffic as the primary basis for road safety. He demonstrated how street design and technologies in the city are supporting a safe traffic system that incorporates active travel as well as new forms of e-mobility including Light Electric Vehicles.
The content of the course was derived from the DRSC curriculum and gave participants the opportunity to experience and learn about the Safe System Approach to infrastructure design and e-mobility developments in a fun and interactive way.
