Downtown Chicago | October 27–28, 2026 | Public-sector mobility leaders | Masterclasses + applied workshops
We are very thankful and honored to be officially endorsed by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Chicago for this two-day program, which brings Dutch and European mobility expertise to U.S. public-sector leaders through practical masterclasses and workshops.
Why This Lab Exists
U.S. mobility leaders are being asked to deliver safer streets, more reliable transit, lower emissions, better use of existing infrastructure, and measurable public value, often without more space, more funding, or more organizational capacity.
At the same time, the pace of change is accelerating. City councils, planners, transportation agencies, and transit leaders must respond to shifting policies and priorities, densification, zoning changes, public expectations, and new technologies while still improving daily mobility performance.
The hard reality is that the old model, isolated projects, fragmented responsibilities, and technology deployed without an integrated operating framework, is no longer sufficient.
Other jurisdictions, both nearby and abroad, have already developed practical ways to connect policy, planning, infrastructure, operations, technology, and measurable outcomes. The nearly fourfold oversubscription of the Visit to the Netherlands program, the depth of discussion in our webinar series, and the growing interest in Transit Opportunity Index metrics all point to the same conclusion: U.S. leaders are actively seeking practical, proven ways to move from ambition to outcomes.
That is why we created the Mobility Leadership Lab: a U.S.-based working program that brings Dutch, European, and American experience together to help public-sector leaders, practitioners, and partners translate proven mobility practices into measurable outcomes in their own communities.
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The Mobility Leadership Lab
This is not a conference built around abstract mobility ideas, stand-alone project presentations, product demonstrations, use cases, or research findings. It is a working program designed to help participants connect proven practice to the real challenges they are working through in their own communities.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own situation: a corridor that is not performing as well as it should, a transit reliability issue that needs a new approach, a car-centric downtown, a safety concern that keeps resurfacing, a technology investment that could deliver more value, or a cross-agency challenge that needs better coordination.
Over two days, participants will learn from Dutch, European, and U.S. practitioners, and from each other. The Lab is structured to help leaders and practitioners step back, look at the full system, and think backward from the outcomes they want to achieve: safer streets, more reliable transit, better use of infrastructure, lower emissions, stronger coordination, improved public value, and better use of operating dollars.
The working questions are practical and constructive:
- What is already working that should be accelerated?
- What is no longer helping and should be reconsidered?
- What needs to change in policy, planning, governance, operations, technology, funding, or procurement?
- What can be acted on now, and what needs to be built over time?
Participants will leave with practical next steps, sharper questions for their own organizations, relevant examples, and a new peer network of leaders and practitioners facing similar implementation challenges.
The outcome lens is WISE: Wellbeing, Inclusion, Sustainability, and Evidence of Economic Growth. That means mobility decisions are evaluated not only by projects delivered, but by whether they improve daily life, broaden access, reduce waste and emissions, and support measurable economic activity.
Meet the Facilitators
The program brings together three complementary perspectives: Goudappel’s decades of Dutch mobility planning and implementation expertise, Scenexus’ predictive digital twin technology, and the Smart City Mobility Council’s U.S. public-sector outcome and implementation focus.
Goudappel
Goudappel is the leading Dutch mobility consultancy, with more than 60 years of experience helping cities, regions, and national governments plan, model, design, and implement integrated mobility systems.
With more than 250 mobility experts, offices across the Netherlands, and active international partnerships and projects in Europe, Turkey, and the United States, Goudappel brings both deep Dutch expertise and global implementation experience.
Its work combines strategy and spatial planning, network modeling, behavioral research, data-driven policy, and tools such as MOVE Meter, system dynamics modeling, and OmniTRANS Realtime to help decision-makers test scenarios, improve accessibility, reduce congestion, support active mobility, and make better use of existing infrastructure.
For the Mobility Leadership Lab, Goudappel brings that depth of applied Dutch experience into a practical U.S. context: how to plan streets, corridors, networks, and communities so mobility investments support safety, accessibility, sustainability, economic activity, and quality of life.
Scenexus
Scenexus is a Dutch predictive digital twin technology company and TNO spin-off, built on more than two decades of Dutch research and development in advanced spatial simulation, distributed computing, high-performance modeling, and urban analytics. Founded as a commercial venture in 2024, Scenexus brings TNO’s Urban Strategy technology into practice as an interactive SaaS platform for cities, regions, planners, engineers, and decision-makers.
Its platform combines rich urban, mobility, land-use, environmental, and infrastructure datasets into predictive digital twins that allow users to test scenarios and understand impacts in minutes rather than days. Urban Strategy supports questions such as housing growth, road closures, parking policy, traffic flows, accessibility, air quality, congestion, climate impacts, and public-space tradeoffs.
Scenexus technology has been applied in cities and regions including Amsterdam, Breda, San Diego, Singapore, Amersfoort, and the United Kingdom, where the Department for Transport selected Scenexus technology for ultra-fast transport modeling.
For the Mobility Leadership Lab, Scenexus brings the Dutch digital planning and simulation capability into a practical U.S. context: how cities, regions, MPOs, and transportation agencies can use predictive digital twins to test options, evaluate tradeoffs, communicate impacts, and make better mobility investment decisions before committing major public funds.
Smart City Mobility Council
Smart City Mobility Council is a U.S.-based independent advisory and capacity-building initiative focused on helping public-sector transportation, transit, planning, and public works leaders move from policy ambition to measurable mobility outcomes. Its work combines executive advisory support, data-driven mobility performance analysis, transit and traffic operations insight, outcome-based program design, funding strategy, and implementation playbooks.
The Council focuses on connecting the pieces that are often treated separately: policy, planning, infrastructure, operations, technology, procurement, finance, governance, and measurable public value.
For the Mobility Leadership Lab, Smart City Mobility Council brings the U.S. public-sector implementation lens: how Dutch and European mobility practices can be translated into practical actions for U.S. cities, transit agencies, MPOs, counties, and regional partners. The Council helps participants connect the masterclasses and workshops to their own operating environment, including safety, transit performance, congestion, emissions, OpEx reduction or reallocation, economic activity, and quality of life.
The Lab is part of the Council’s broader mission to help agencies build the leadership capacity, operating models, and implementation discipline needed to turn fragmented mobility initiatives into coordinated, outcome-driven programs.
Program Overview
Day 1: From Mobility Ambition to Transformation
Explore how policy, planning, infrastructure, governance, and operations must align to deliver measurable mobility outcomes.
Participants will examine Dutch and European concepts such as Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning, multimodal network design, complete-streets thinking, traffic circulation planning, proximity-based access, and outcome-based implementation, alongside U.S. examples where cities and agencies are applying similar models through Transit First, Vision Zero, Complete Streets, Bus Rapid Transit, transit signal priority, and data-driven safety programs.
Facilitated by Goudappel and Smart City Mobility Council.
Day 2: From Insight to Implementation
Focus on practical tools and operating models, including digital twins, transit optimization, scenario planning, and a Mobility Maturity Workshop. Participants will leave with clearer questions, examples, peer connections, and practical next steps for their own communities.
Who Should Attend — and What You Will Take Away
Elected Officials / Council Members – Learn how to evaluate mobility proposals, ask outcome-based questions, and understand the tradeoffs behind street, transit, safety, and technology decisions.
City Managers / Executives – Learn how to align departments, governance, funding, procurement, and delivery around measurable outcomes.
Transportation / Public Works Leaders – Learn how to move from project-by-project execution to network-level performance improvement.
Transit Leaders – Learn how to frame transit delay, reliability, operating cost, and ridership impacts in ways that local partners and funders can act on.
Planners / MPOs / Regional Agencies – Learn how to connect policy, land use, funding, corridors, regional coordination, and implementation.
Registration
The participation fee for the two-day Mobility Leadership Lab is $1,500 per person.
Register by June 26, 2026 to receive the $350 Early Bird Discount, reducing the fee to $1,150 per person.
Registration includes access to both days of masterclasses, applied workshops, peer discussions, and networking sessions. The program is intentionally designed as an interactive leadership lab, with limited space to support high-quality discussion and direct engagement with the facilitators.
Group discounts are available upon request for agencies, organizations, and teams registering multiple participants.
Participants may pre-register now and pay later. This allows public agencies and organizations to reserve participation while completing internal approval, invoicing, or procurement steps.
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