Non-Boring Mobility Innovations 2025

The 2025 edition includes 15 brand new thought-provoking essays by talented urban planning students of the University of Amsterdam, who explore the complexities of modern transportation systems. This captivating compilation challenges conventional wisdom and presents fresh ideas to redefine the way we think about mobility and our streets.

Note: "Non-Boring Mobility Innovations 2024" contains completely different essays from students of the previous year.

Essays Include:

• Introduction By Marco te Brömmelstroet, Luca Bertolini & Meredith Glaser
• Shared Car, Shared Goals by Nova Bernards
• From Car Dependence to Autonomous Mobility by Paula Buglio
• Breaking Free from Car Dependency by Merel Cassée
• Considering "Slow" Narratives of Play in a Hyper World by Adam Gilleece
• Beyond Efficiency by Femke Guit
• Introduction to Tactical Urbanism. Or Is It? by Vanya Kahmann
• The Lack of Revolutionary Power in Mobility Thinking by Jelmer de Jong
• Reducing Transport Access to Encourage Proximity in Madrid's Region by Juan Notivoli Zamora
• Rethinking Accessibility and Equity in the Megalopolis by Bram Scholte
• From Me to We by Parth Solanki
• From Highways to Human Ways by Gido van der Spruijt
• From Mobility as a Service to Mobility as Commons by Atakan Temizkan
• From High-Speed Travel to Local Connections by Teun Vertegaal
• Stuck in Traffic or Stuck in Thinking? by Tim van der Vooren
• The Death and Life of the Modern Hitchhiker by Nitzan Zeira

Ray Berger is a 4CITIES MSc candidate in Urban Studies '24.

I am interested in how our thinking about mobility futures is structured through underlying narratives. And I aim to explore what happens if you change this. This work you can find and join via https: //thelabofthought.co. In my work, cycling plays a pivotal role as a lens to study these narratives and to find new ones. Together with my colleagues we aim to 'bring knowledge about cycling from research to practice and back'. Check out all our educational and research products and our public engagement via https: //www.urbancyclinginstitute.com