The Smart City Mobility Council (SCMC) bridges the gap between operational mobility practices that deliver measurable outcomes and U.S. government leaders seeking to close that gap in their own jurisdictions. We do this through two connected tracks: Capacity Building, which develops the understanding, alignment, and leadership confidence required to move from interest to execution; and Operational Playbooks, which provide practical, end-to-end frameworks that convert proven practices into repeatable implementation models.
As part of the capacity-building effort and leading up to the Visit to the Netherlands ’26 and the Mobility Leadership Lab on October 27–28 in Chicago, SCMC is hosting a webinar series featuring leaders from the United States and the Netherlands, with support from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology – Urban Mobility. Recordings are posted below, with a new episode added every two weeks. To participate in upcoming sessions, please register to join live.
Recording
- From Policy Ambition to Measurable Mobility Outcomes
- From Intersection Decisions to Multimodal Network Orchestration
- Show Me the Money: Where Transit Operating Dollars Are Lost — and How the TOI Finds Them.
May 5, 2026: From Policy Ambition to Measurable Mobility Outcomes
Paul Hoekstra, Founder and Principal Consultant, Smart City Mobility Council
In the first webinar, Paul Hoekstra introduced the journey that led to the Smart City Mobility Council, the V2NL26 program, and this webinar series. The session framed the core challenge facing U.S. cities and transportation agencies: strong policies and major investments often do not translate into measurable street-level outcomes.
Drawing from Dutch mobility practice, U.S. implementation experience, and proof points from SFMTA, Ohio, Portland, and Waco, the webinar showed how agencies can move from fragmented initiatives toward an outcome-based operating model focused on Wellbeing, Inclusiveness, Sustainability, and Evidence of Economic Growth.
It also set up the upcoming sessions on urban planning, transportation planning, digital twins, infrastructure, operational technologies, and use-case-driven implementation.
May 19, 2026: From Intersection Decisions to Multimodal Network Orchestration
Paul van Koningsbruggen, Move Global Business Unit Director, Technolution
This session will show how the Netherlands has already moved beyond isolated intersection control toward coordinated, multimodal network orchestration, and how that evolution underpins what is widely regarded as one of the world’s strongest multimodal mobility systems.
Technolution will present Dutch practice together with U.S. proof points to demonstrate how integrated platforms help translate policy goals into network-level operations, while newer Dutch Metropolitan Innovations extend that same logic across mobility, public space, and urban development.
June 2, 2026: Show Me the Money: Where Transit Operating Dollars Are Lost — and How the TOI Finds Them.
With Paul Hoekstra, Founder and Principal Consultant, and Damian Breen, COO, Smart City Mobility Council
This session will show how to reveal the value of Transit Vehicles not being able to adhere to the posted speed between stops due to congestion, infrastructure configuration, and signal delay.
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The Transit Opportunity Index (TOI) assesses at route, intersection, and 52m hexagons where transit loses time and operating value, pinpoints the root causes, and helps prioritize the fastest, highest-impact actions to remove hindrances to better service.
Using Bay Area findings together with the SFMTA Connected Corridor proof point, including a 73.2% reduction in red-light delay for light rail and a 21.2% speed increase, the session will demonstrate how a large share of delay can be traced to intersections and targeted segments, where focused intervention can produce material gains in ridership, mode competitiveness and operational efficiency.