Mobility

Mobility and transport are crucial for a city to function properly. Amsterdam is considered the world capital of cycling; 32% of traffic movement in Amsterdam is by bike and 63% of its inhabitants use their bike on daily basis. The number of registered electrical car owners in the Netherlands increased with 53% to 28.889 in 2016. Since 2008 car sharing increased with 376%. However, this is less than 1% of the total car use. Innovative ideas and concepts can help to improve the city’s accessibility, so share your ideas and concepts here.

Julius Zimmer, Press Officer , posted

Have you wondered what it feels like to drive a EV? Here is your chance!

I work for the electric car company Sono Motors from Germany. We produced an electric solar car - the Sion - that is designed to meet the needs of people living in big cities like Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin or Paris. It is equipped with 330 solar cells to generate energy for increased mobility and has a complete range of up to 280 km per day.

The reason I am reaching out to you is because we are on a tour across Europe to promote the benefits of electric vehicles.

The city of Amsterdam is the biggest supporter of EV in Europe, that is why my colleagues and the Sion are stopping by on the 1st of October 2017 to offer test drives with our prototype.

You can see what this looks like, if you take a short look at a video of our stop in Munich:

VIDEO: http://bit.ly/2fNsyvo

We are looking for people to attend our visit in Amsterdam! So if you ever wondered what it feels like to drive a EV, than you should come visit us! You can take the Sion for a test drive for about 5-10 minutes and talk to our engineers and managers on the site. We offer you to experience the unique features of the Sion, which make it the perfect car for a future without fossil fuels. Here is where you can find us:

Taets Art and Event Park
Hemkade 18
1506 Zaandam

We start our tests on Sunday at 10am and will be there till 7pm. The last day of our stop is the 4th of October.

Met de beste groeten,

Julius Zimmer

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James Bell, Editor , posted

Amsterdam – A Data-driven City Of Europe

The smart city projects of Amsterdam overlay 8 primary categories that include big and open data, smart infrastructure, smart mobility, smart economy, smart society, smart areas, smart living and living labs.

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Amsterdam challenges the market to come up with innovative solutions for urban logistics

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The municipality of Amsterdam, in collaboration with Topsector Logistics, Stichting Connekt and Amsterdam Smart City, is launching a competition for market operators and startups to bring innovative solutions for the logistics challenge in the city center. The increasing popularity of Amsterdam is accompanied by a growing need for mobility. The space is scarce on the road, on the sidewalk, on the bike path and in the number of spaces for parking, loading and unloading in a neighborhood.

Continue reading in Dutch:

De gemeente Amsterdam schrijft in samenwerking met Topsector Logistiek, Stichting Connekt en Amsterdam Smart City een wedstrijd uit voor marktpartijen en startups naar innovatieve oplossingen voor de logistieke uitdaging in de binnenstad. De toenemende populariteit van Amsterdam gaat gepaard met een groeiende behoefte aan mobiliteit. De ruimte is schaars op de weg, op de stoep, op het fietspad en in het aantal parkeer-en laad en losplekken in een wijk.

Wethouder Pieter Litjens (Verkeer en Vervoer): “Door de beperkte ruimte en de drukte in de stad is het een uitdaging voor vervoerders en vrachtwagens om de stad op tijd te bevoorraden en ter plaatse te laden en te lossen. Dit kost de winkeliers geld en zorgt voor onnodige voertuigkilometers voor leveranciers. Om dit op te lossen kunnen we creatieve en effectieve ideeën van ondernemers hartstikke goed gebruiken. Ik ben erg benieuwd naar de inzendingen.”

De heer van Dijk van Transport & Logistiek Nederland voegt hier aan toe: “Als een laad-los plek bezet is moeten onze leden regelmatig weer terug de A10 op. Dat kost ons veel tijd en geld en maakt goederen onnodig duur voor bewoners”. Een voorbeeld: de gemeente kent vele soorten ontheffingen. Er kan niet bij elke beweegbare paal een handhaver ter plaatse zijn die controleert of een vervoerder wel een ontheffing heeft. Wellicht kan digitalisering handhaving overbodig maken.

De wedstrijd

De samenwerkende partijen schrijven een wedstrijd uit; de Smart City Challenge Stadslogistiek. Er wordt veel verwacht van het combineren van verschillende technologieën, bijvoorbeeld sensoren met internettechnologie en bestaande toepassingen. Hierdoor kunnen nieuwe oplossingen ontstaan die problemen van dienstverleners en overlast voor bewoners kunnen voorkomen. Alle mogelijke oplossingen zijn interessant: van zeer eenvoudig tot meer complex.

Europese aanbesteding met een opdracht als prijs

De challenge is een Europese aanbesteding in de vorm van een prijsvraag, met voor de winnaar als prijs een opdracht om het voorstel in praktijk te brengen. Er wordt een opdracht van maximaal €50.000 verstrekt per opdracht. De twee winnende concepten voeren een pilot uit in Amsterdam, ondersteund vanuit de gemeente.

Aanmelden kan via Tendernet:

Prijsvraag Smart City Challenge stadslogistiek: De e-RVV-ontheffing

Prijsvraag Smart City Challenge stadslogistiek: intelligente laad- en losplek

Bekijk de video hier:

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Stephan Juen, Founder , posted

Boosting e-mobility in small and medium local communities

I am looking for some expertise on e-mobility projects which helped establishing e-mobility on a regional or small community basis. The experiences might result from a master thesis, dissertation, some other scientific research or result from any kind of field experience in a smart city context. THX

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Alex Matatula, Programmamanager , posted

Get to know FLOW!

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FLOW nodigt jou uit om officieel kennis te maken met een nieuw platform dat als doel heeft om wereldwijd autovrije straten te creëren. Geen straten meer die vol staan met geparkeerde auto's, maar alleen vervoersmiddelen op de weg die nodig zijn om mensen van A naar B te vervoeren.
FLOW is een MaaS (Mobility as a Service)-initiatief opgericht door Merijn Everaarts (Dopper), John Meulemans (3SixtyFive) en wordt vormgegeven door Alex Matatula.
Tijdens dit evenement presenteert FLOW haar visie en licht haar missie en MaaS-oplossing en participatiemogelijkheden nader toe. Zodat we dit doel gezamenlijk gaan realiseren.

Meer info: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-get-to-know-flow-37754841748

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Cargo Bike Expo

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The Cargo Bike Expo is a two day event created to make companies acquainted with all the possibilities of transport by the electric transport bicycle. Here you will be in contact with parties who provide all relevant information. It's a one-stop shop where you can organize your urban mobility in one go.
Thursday 12 and Friday 13 October, 15:00-21:00

De Cargo Bike Expo is een tweedaags evenement bedoeld om bedrijven kennis te laten maken met alle mogelijkheden die er zijn als het gaat om transport middels de elektrische transportfiets. Hier kom je in contact met partijen die alle relevante informatie verstrekken. Het is een one-stop-shop waar je je urban mobility in een keer goed kunt organiseren.
Donderdag 12 en vrijdag 13 oktober, 15:00-21:00

Event from Oct 12th to Oct 13th
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Amsterdam is already working on the traffic jams of the future

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In two years, construction will start on the Zuidas, Amsterdam’s financial district. Amsterdam is turning the Zuidas into the biggest Smart Mobility Living Lab in the world. “The roads and cities are becoming more and more crowded, and at some point, it simply won’t fit anymore.”

In two years, construction will start on the Zuidas, Amsterdam’s financial district. Amsterdam is turning the Zuidas into the biggest Smart Mobility Living Lab in the world. “The roads and cities are becoming more and more crowded, and at some point, it simply won’t fit anymore.”

Imagine receiving a voucher worth 1.000 euros, to be spent on transportation within a month. You could rent a Tesla in the weekends, for instance. Or travel by train in business class. Or you could rent an e-bike and travel to work that way. And you get to keep all the money you haven’t spent at the end of that month.

The only thing you’d have to do to get it? Hand in your company car’s keys for a month.

This is an experiment the city of Amsterdam will carry out this October. Fifty people who work at the Zuidas – who normally commute by (company) car – will test the concept for a month. “Naturally, we’re hoping they realize they don’t necessarily need a company car; that there are other options available,” says Tijs Roelofs, Smart Mobility manager for the city of Amsterdam.

Sharing economy

The experiment is a part of a much larger project the city is working on: Mobility as a Service, which, as the name implies, offers mobility and transportation as a service, whereas it’s generally seen as a possession. You own a car; you own an annual train card. But the city, in collaboration with employers at the Zuidas and beyond, wants to move towards a point where we start to see mobility as a service: you don’t own the product, but you use it – and then pass it on.

Thinking from a user’s point of view – someone who only has to pay for what he or she uses – fits in the rising concept of the sharing economy. Roelofs: “There’s a fundamental change in behavior taking place among people, through developments and new start-ups who focus on the sharing economy, or on unlimited subscriptions. This transition happened quietly with services such as Spotify or Netflix. You no longer wait to see what’s on TV or the radio; you ‘buy’ your own music. Whenever you like, whatever you like.” The city wants to implement the concept in transportation. What would happen if you could use every single stationary car and bike on one street? Would you still need as many as there are now?

The road to better transportation

A city that actively thinks from the user’s point of view requires a new way of thinking, Roelofs says. “It’s an important switch. For years, we’ve solved problems like traffic jams and transportation issues by offering more: if the roads were full, we’d build more roads. Or make them wider. Or build more train tracks.” But the roads are nearly up to full capacity, and matching supply and demand and spreading out through time and space is necessary. The National market and capacity analysis 2017 shows that the crowds in, and popularity of, the biggest cities are so great, that by 2040, the cities will be nearly impossible to get to. The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis predicts a rise of 23 to 50 per cent in individual mobility in the Netherlands until 2050. “The roads and cities are becoming more and more crowded, and it simply won’t fit anymore,” Roelofs says.

Urgency

Add to that the upcoming large-scale construction work at the Zuidas. Alderman Pieter Litjens (Traffic, Transportation and Organization): “We’re investing a lot in Amsterdam’s accessibility. It’s definitely necessary, but it also causes inconveniences.” The A10-south road will be widened and a tunnel will be constructed underneath (Zuidasdok), and the train station South will be rebuilt and enlarged. The construction is expected to be done by 2028 – meaning nine years of continuous construction work on both roads and railways. Litjens: “Of course it’s important to minimize the disruptions asmuch as possible, but as a municipality, we want to take that next step at the same time: investing in solutions for tomorrow’s economy.”

Construction will start in 2019. “Most companies tend to want to hold back on measures until the very last moment,” Finn van Leeuwen says. “But if that’s when you start, you’re already too late. Companies are starting to feel this urgency; they need to stay accessible to employees and visitors.” Van Leeuwen is program manager Accessibility for the Zuidas. “I work with employers to find solutions to keep the accessibility at a certain level, and to ensure the Zuidas is a place where you’d like to live, work, and stay.” One specific short-term goal is to convince 1.500 people who travel to the Zuidas by car, not to do so during rush hour, but to start driving at different times. Not just during the planned construction work, but also afterwards. “This will only work if the alternative is truly better, faster, cheaper or healthier than driving. Theoretically, this is already the case for many alternatives, but it all needs to be simplified and more easily approachable. And we really need to listen to the users. It’ll only work when and if they’re satisfied.”

App

Van Leeuwen is mostly focusing on collaborations with employers. On September 15, the Zuidas companies’ CEOs will sign a declaration of intent to spend their mobility budget differently, purchasing mobility in a different way. That means no longer offering a company car in employees’ contracts, but for example offering young employees a transportation budget with a corresponding app, that allows them to choose their own methods of transportation. Van Leeuwen: “By having companies and government work together, we create both scale and 260 million euros a year will be the cost of traffic jams by 2040 if nothing changes market. This way, we can command innovation within the mobility industry, and really move forward in ways we can transport ourselves, both for work and in our private lives.”

  • Car sharing has increased by 376% since 2008, but still, only 1 % of all personal cars is shared.
  • 15 % of the total consumption budget by households is spent on the mobility sector (a yearly 44 billion euros)
  • A car spends 23 hours a day being stationary
  • 1 percent of Amsterdam’s inhabitants shares their personal car

To find the solutions, there are also cooperations with technology development companies. There’s an app from Finland, WHIM, with which Amsterdam will start a trial this October. The app advises the best or most efficient way to travel from point A to point B, using both public transportation and private transportation such as bike or rental car. It will show the user many different options for transportation. “Our app ensures you won’t have to pay for anything separately, as everything is taken care of in the app,” says Sampo Hietanen, the app’s creator.

“WHIM is an innovator, and the first to use a complete MaaS APP,” Van Leeuwen says. Roelofs adds: “It’s great to design these pilots with technologically innovative companies, because we as government can’t exactly build an app like that. That’s not where our strength lies.”

Freedom as a core value

One thing that will definitely remain the city’s responsibility, is making sure mobility will remain available to everyone. “This is one of the core values that we’ve stated as a city,” Roelofs says. “What kind of city do you want to be? What’s important? Amsterdam is a city of entrepreneurship, freedom, and inclusivity. We’d never tax bicycle use, for instance; that would clash with our core value of ‘freedom’.”

For the city, it’s a challenge to lead the path of technological innovations while adhering to this core value. Roelofs: “The only way people living in Amsterdam would ever consider no longer owning a car, or using it less frequently, is if they had a better and cheaper alternative, thereby experiencing ‘freedom of mobility’.

What is Amsterdam doing in terms of MaaS now?

1. The Zuidas Mobility Experience: not using your company car for a month. The Zuidas Mobility Experience wants to have fifty people who’ll give up their car for a month, and who will use a Zuidas pass worth 1.000 euros instead. The Zuidas pass will allow you to travel however you want, both for personal and business reasons: by train, subway, bus, e-bike, taxi or rental car. The Experience is a preview of the MaaS system, in which employees choose how to spend their mobility budget instead of being assigned a company car, fuel card and parking spot.

2. On September 15, the CEOs of the Zuidas companies will sign a declaration of intent to spend their mobility budget differently and to purchase mobility as a service. This is a lead up to December 15, when a cooperation agreement will be signed to ensure that MaaS will be launched at the Zuidas in the summer of 2018.

3. Amsterdam will start a contest at the end of 2017 to find the best MaaS solution for the city’s inhabitants, a solution that will ensure that as many people as possible will stop using their cards (and thereby making space for a more attractive public space).

This article was written by Charlotte van ‘t Wout.

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Maaike Osieck, Founder Mighty4 & Amsterdam Smart City Ambassador , posted

I want to ride my bicycle....

Nice overview in Het Parool (Dutch only) last week. When you cycle during rush hours in Amsterdam you might end up in a traffic jam.
What are solutions for our cycling challenges? What's your opinion?

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Carlien Roodink, Independent Consultant , posted

"The future of mobility: bridging supply of and demand for smart urban mobility"

We are looking for city officials, representatives of transport authorities, investors and other professionals who have a special interest in Smart Urban Mobility. We organize an invite-only break-out session "Future of Mobility" during CapitalFest, Amsterdam, Sept 27. Interested to participate? Please contact us at smarturbanmobility@jiip.eu.

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Carlien Roodink, Independent Consultant , posted

Are you a start-up or a scale-up with a smart urban mobility solution?

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And do you have ambition to grow and are looking to connect with investors, corporates and public authorities?

Opportunity:
• free ticket CapitalFest “Global challenges, Start-up solutions” on 27 September 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• chance to be selected for 1:1 matchmaking with international investors
• attend invite-only break-out session organised by the European Commission’s directorate-general for Mobility and Transport, with representatives from BMW Startup Garage, Mastercard and Rotterdam Mobility Lab as well as public authorities.

On 27 September 2017, CapitalFest brings together top-notch founders, investors and corporates in Amsterdam. CapitalFest is organised by Amsterdam Capital Week and StartupFestEurope, dedicated to creating connections between founders and investors.

The European Commission’s directorate-general for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) works to accelerate the deployment of sustainable urban mobility solutions. To bridge the gap between supply and demand, the break-out session will bring together public and private organisations to see how we can create new partnerships.

With sponsorship from DG MOVE we can offer these tickets free of charge to you. Contact us for more information by email smarturbanmobility@jiip.eu or by phone +31 614716657 (Carlien Roodink).

This event is organised as part of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities, action cluster Sustainable Urban Mobility

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Floortje Vermeer, posted

Amsterdam is looking for a new Bicycle Mayor!

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Amsterdam zoekt nieuwe Fietsburgemeester!

Heb jij ideeën over hoe je het fietsen in Amsterdam kunt verbeteren? Meld je dan aan als nieuwe Fietsburgemeester van Amsterdam! Een Fietsburgemeester is het gezicht van het fietsen in een stad en vormt de schakel tussen de gemeente, stadsbewoners en andere stakeholders. Daarnaast zijn alle Fietsburgemeesters onderdeel van een internationaal netwerk.

Aanmelden is simpel: je gaat naar www.bicyclemayor.org en beantwoord een aantal vragen die door een jury bekeken worden. De jury kiest een top 5, die 5 kandidaten presenteren op donderdagavond 19 oktober hun ideeën aan de vijf juryleden. Op basis van de presentaties kiezen zij een top 3. Op donderdagavond 2 november pitcht deze top 3 hun plannen aan het publiek. De uiteindelijke winnaar wordt gekozen met de stem van het publiek, de jury en voormalig Fietsburgemeester Anna Luten.

De positie van Fietsburgemeester is vrijwillig. Je krijgt er uiteraard wel veel voor terug! Je leert ontzettend veel over de ontwikkelingen op fietsgebied in Amsterdam en wereldwijd en de functie is een verrijking voor je (internationale) netwerk. Er is veel ruimte voor eigen inbreng en je wordt gecoacht in het geven van pitches en interviews, het organiseren van bijeenkomsten, innovatief en creatief denken en het ontwikkelen van leiderschap skills - afhankelijk van jouw wensen en behoeften.

Wil je weten wat Anna Luten afgelopen jaar allemaal heeft gedaan? Lees dan haar blog op onze nieuwe website! Zo krijg je meteen een beter beeld van wat een Fietsburgemeester voor een stad kan betekenen.

Het ‘Bicycle Mayor Program’ is geïnitieerd door CycleSpace en is bedoeld om wereldwijd de groei rondom fietsen te versnellen.

http://www.bicyclemayor.org

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Tijs Roelofs, Smart Mobility Manager at City of Amsterdam: Digitalization & Innovation, posted

Zuidas MaaS experience

Werk je op de Zuidas? Heb je een lease auto? Wil je een keer de "freedom of mobility' ervaren? Lever dan de sleutel van je lease auto in!

Doe mee aan de Zuidas MaaS experience en ontvang €1000,- reisbudget op de Zuidas Pas en ervaar de mobiliteit van de toekomst. Er kunnen slechts 50 mensen deelnemen, dus meld je snel aan!

Met de Zuidaspas kan je gebruik maken van de volgende mobilteitsdiensten:
- OV (bus, tram, metro en trein) – keuze 1e of 2e klasse
- Taxi (Uber en Transvision)
- Huurauto of auto op afroep (SIXT en Tripmanager)
- Deelfiets / e-bike (Urbee, OV-fiets en Hello bike)
- Deelauto (Greenwheels, Audi Shared Fleet en Snapcar)
- Parkeren (Stallingsparkeren fiets bij de 39 grootste stations en P+R parkeren bij Q-park)

Zien hoe het werkt? Op 26 september is er een startbijeenkomst @cyclespace

Check de video hier: https://youtu.be/qHEPrXniiwg
En meer info hier: https://www.amsterdam.nl/zuidas/zuidas-mobility/

Extra leuk:
Persoonlijke assistent: Op werkdagen tussen 8.00 en 20.00 uur kan je bellen met een persoonlijke assistent die met jouw optimale reis kan plannen, kan helpen met de huur van een auto etc.
Geld terug: En houd jij na een maand geld over op jouw Zuidaspas, dan storten we dat op jouw rekening!

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Jurgen Rutgers, Managing Director , posted

Mobility Portal

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The Mobility Portal offers visitors of venues the best travel advice at that moment (real time), which they can immediately book online.

Smart Stories

Check the article about the Mobility Portal featured in our online magazine 'Smart Stories':

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Deborah Rosenberg Axis, posted

Meet Ford in Amsterdam

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We're partnering with Ford to organize events across Europe, and we would like to invite you to apply to pitch at our event in Amsterdam on September 4th with Scott Lyons and Andreas Brockers of Ford’s Connected Vehicles & Services Organization.

This visit is one of the stops on a 7 country tour this summer in advance of an invite only Ford event happening in Paris this October 25-26. Invited participants will be able fast track their concepts with Ford by gaining access to vehicle equipment, Ford engineers, 1:1 executive mentors as well as consumer focus groups all on site. Ultimately, participants will be competing for cash prizes as well as a chance to potentially work further with Ford. We are looking for existing mobile apps that can make use of Ford’s vehicle linking technology SYNC AppLink for Productivity, commercial/fleet solutions, multi-connected car, mobility and vehicle data.

Do you have what it takes to make it to Paris in October? You can register here to attend this pre-event : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ford-in-amsterdam-to-meet-with-startups-merkspace-tickets-36052179038
...and if you would like to pitch please complete the application: https://makeitdriveable.com/

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Florentine van Boetzelaer-Tiemstra, Trade developer Smart City & Health at Amsterdam Economic Board, posted

Holland Pavilion at Nordic Edge

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Do you want to position yourself in the Nordics with your Smart City / Mobility Solution?
Then join us at the Holland Pavilion at Nordic Edge (www.nordicedge.org) this year in Stavanger, Norway. With over 4000 participants, 200+ exhibitors and more than 100 speakers, Nordic Edge is the largest and most important Smart City /Mobility event in the Nordics. At the Expo you will meet decision makers from cities and municipalities, change-making companies, startups, smart technology solutions for smart cities and communities. Making the expo a comprehensive marketing and communication platform to showcase your solution for smart cities and communities.

Together is better than alone! So join the Holland Pavilion, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Regional Business Development team, the Dutch Embassy in Norway and the RVO. Partially funded with public funds and partly through contributions from participating companies.

Interested? Then sign up here as soon as possible!
Questions? Contact: daniel.malmgren@minbuza.nl/ +46728564984

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Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes, Founder & CEO at AKKA Architects, posted

Social Mobility Rotterdam

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In collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure, we are working on a new opportunity for social mobility. It is a program that supports start-ups (as well as other companies with a start-up service) who have a service in the field of Social Mobility. Social Mobility is about mobility services that can create social impact, either by servicing the less mobile users, the ones with less financial means, addressing loneliness, lack of education…etc. For example, think of people that need the soup kitchen or the salvation army but can’t afford getting there, or people that cannot go to job interviews because they can't afford the transport to get there and are therefore stuck in a vicious circle of poverty.

We are looking for social (mobility) entrepreneurs, testers and investors:

1. Social entrepreneurs: If you are or know of start-ups that have such social mobility services that would be interested in developing them, testing them with users, finding investment and scaling, please let us know! P.S: We are not only looking for start-ups, we are also welcoming established companies that have a 'start-up level' service.

2. Testers: they can be the end-users themselves or in-between organisations, such as the Salvation Army for example, which would have access to a large group of end-users. Do you have contacts of know someone that would be an early adopter of such innovative social mobility services, please put us in touch.

3. Investors: we are also looking for investors that would be interested in investing in social entrepreneurs to help create social impact. Do you have contacts or know a party that could be interested, please put us in touch.

stephanie.hughes@akkaarchitects.com

Here you can see an earlier version of this program: http://www.rotterdammobilitylab.nl

Rotterdam Mobility Lab - De terugblik van de eerste editie

Rotterdam Mobility Lab - De Verkeersonderneming

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Charley Fiedeldij Dop, Programmaker at Pakhuis de Zwijger, posted

We staan stil

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The mobility issue in the Metropolitan region of Amsterdam is more current than ever before. Let yourself be inspired and discuss the effective measures we need to keep our metropolis accessible.
- Event in Dutch

Het mobiliteitsvraagstuk in de Metropoolregio Amsterdam is actueler dan ooit. Terwijl Schiphol in 2050 een verdubbeling van het aantal bezoekers verwacht - toeristen die allemaal de Nachtwacht willen zien - vragen wij ons af hoe Amsterdam hierop voorbereid is. Ten westen van de Houthavens komen 70.000 woningen. Hoe komen al die nieuwe bewoners van en naar hun werk? We staan stil in de metropool. Letterlijk en figuurlijk.

Een holistische visie met een drastisch actieplan is nu nodig want we kunnen niet langer stil staan. Wat wordt de volgende grote stap na de oplevering van de Noord/Zuidlijn in 2018? Laat je inspireren en ga het gesprek aan over welke doeltreffende maatregelen we moeten nemen om onze metropool bereikbaar te houden.

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Futureteams

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Gerard Spin, CEO , posted

Parkasol Solar Carport, free Do-It-Yourself ebook

We believe that the word "parking" is going to be replaced by "charging" in the future. The vehicle itself makes the reservation (Internet of Things), start contactless charging itself and the energy comes from the sun.

"Just go to the gas station to fill up" will change. You do not want to go somewhere to charge. You want to charge where you are, at home and at work. Where you charge, you also want to generate your energy. The solution we provide in a free E-book, is a solar carport. The so-called Parkasol, with solar panels and charging station for electric vehicles.

The free Parkasol e-book is the first step in our mission to "make charging of electric vehicles simple, reliable and durable in locations where vehicles stop for more than two hours." In the next e-book we are going to explain how an existing EV charging station can be linked to our reservation platform. By connecting to our reservation platform drivers can easily find the best local chargingpoint and make a reservations from a smartphone or PC. The chargingpoint owners decide the price and availability. In this way we ensure that electric vehicles can always be on the road with a full battery.

Dutch ebook: http://parkingware.eu/het-nieuwe-laden/
English ebook: http://parkingware.eu/the-new-way-of-charging/?lang=en

Best regards,
Gerard Spin
Founder of Parkingware
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/gerardspin

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Amsterdam Smart City, Connector of opportunities at Amsterdam Smart City, posted

Join us on the trade mission to the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona!

If you would have to pick one event to attend within the Smart City sector, make sure you attend this event! From city leaders, over startups and corporates to experts and researchers, they will all be in Barcelona to network and exchange knowledge on development of our cities.

Amsterdam Smart City believes the Smart City Expo World Congress could provide great opportunities for our network. This year the Holland Pavilion will reflect 5 smart city themes: Circular, Mobility, Energy, Safety and Health. Alongside the pavilion a Dutch trade mission will be organized for companies that wish to explore business opportunities. Interested in joining us? More info here: https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/events/smart-city-expo-world-congress-8e01ig1n

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