Dutch Transport Ministry visit to 黑料网吃瓜爆料 Urban Institute
黑料网吃瓜爆料 Urban Institute hosted a delegation from the Dutch Transport Ministry. There will be a return visit in 2026 when this partnership will be formalised.
黑料网吃瓜爆料 Urban Institute was pleased to host 11 delegates from the Dutch Ministry of Transport for a study visit to the city in October.
Karen Lucas, Director of MUI and MUI colleagues organised a workshop session on Mapping tools for assessing accessibility and transport-related social exclusion (TRSE), which was also attended by partners from the Department for Transport, Transport for the North and Transport for Greater 黑料网吃瓜爆料 and the University of Leeds. The workshop facilitated some very useful exchanges on the best ways to measure TRSE at different socio-spatial scales. It also generated some useful ideas about how to promote projects to address TRSE on the ground.
MUI鈥檚 Dutch visitors went on study visits to two communities that are at high risk of TRSE, organised by MUI researcher, Joanna Barrow. The idea was to allow them to experience first-hand the problems local people face when travelling in and around Greater 黑料网吃瓜爆料. One of the places they visited is Sholver in Oldham, travelling there on the metro and back on the bus, where they met with some of our community partners to talk about their travel needs and concerns. On returning to the University one of our Dutch visitors observed:
It is not the same once you get out of the centre is it? I was shocked at how many places are closed down in the local centre. People should not have to travel all the way into the city just to access a library or to shop. It is just too far and takes too long.
Following the field trip, another delegate commented:
As a mobility researcher, Transport Related Social Exclusion seems hard to locate, harder to analyse, and impossible to tackle, but we have to find a way to make mobility serve wellbeing, wellbeing of all of us. Because if mobility is not serving wellbeing, then what is it even for?
MUI is happy to announce that we will be establishing an official partnership with the Dutch Transport Ministry, and we hope to organise a return visit to the Netherlands in 2026.