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, 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.
- Multi-Modal Design of Urban Corridors: a Dutch-inspired approach in Charlotte, NC.
- Using Predictive, Interactive Digital Twins to Plan Mobility, Growth, and Urban Change
- How the Dutch Design for Safety, Access, and Movement: Milwaukee as a U.S. Use Case
- Applying Outcome-Based Technology in a Mature Transportation System: Waco’s Use Cases in Practice
- What if traffic signals could see like self-driving vehicles? A case study
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.
Click below for the slides:
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.
June 16. 2026. Multi-Modal Design of Urban Corridors: a Dutch-inspired approach in Charlotte, NC. With Bas Govers – Strategic Advisor, Mobility and Spatial Planning, Goudappel.
This session will show how Goudappel, the Netherlands’ leading mobility consultancy, with more than 60 years of experience at the center of Dutch mobility planning and policy, is applying in the United States the planning knowledge, frameworks, and methods that underpin one of the world’s strongest mobility systems.
Using Central Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study, the session will illustrate the Dutch multi-modal approach to urban corridor design. We will examine the Move Meter as a tool to support modelling in corridor design, including multi-modal street design, crossing signalization, and corridor landscaping. We will also share practical experience in applying Dutch-inspired solutions in the U.S.
June 30, 2026. Using Predictive, Interactive Digital Twins to Plan Mobility, Growth, and Urban Change. With Peter van Oorschot, CEO North America, Scenexus.
This session will show how predictive digital twin planning gives agencies a more forward-looking way to test scenarios, compare tradeoffs across mobility, land use, and environmental outcomes, and make faster, better-informed decisions than traditional planning cycles typically allow.
Scenexus will demonstrate that this approach is already being applied in North America and is built to support public-sector decision-making in real planning environments, helping U.S. leaders stay in control of outcomes instead of relying on static, backward-looking processes.
July 14, 2026. How the Dutch Design for Safety, Access, and Movement: Milwaukee as a U.S. Use Case with Johan Diepens, CEO and Founder, Mobycon.
“This session will show how Dutch mobility design improves safety, access, and movement by planning from networks for different road users, shaping streets and activity areas around how people actually move and stay, and making deliberate choices about where modes should mix or be separated.
Using Milwaukee as a U.S. case, Mobycon will demonstrate how this approach translates into practical design decisions, infrastructure delivery, and mobility education that can be applied within current American city and street conditions.”
July 28, 2026. Applying Outcome-Based Technology in a Mature Transportation System: Waco’s Use Cases in Practice with Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Director, Waco (TX) MPO.
This session will show how Dr. Mukesh Kumar, MPO Director, is guiding Waco’s application of outcome-based technology within a mature transportation system where infrastructure, regulation, and operating conditions require improvement through integration rather than wholesale replacement.
Using current use cases focused on multimodal prioritization, transit performance, and human-centered transportation improvement, Dr. Kumar will share early results from structured deployment at the intersection and corridor level and explain how this work supports better decisions and a scalable path toward broader system improvement.
August 11, 2026. What if traffic signals could see like self-driving vehicles? A case study with Collin Barnwell
CEO Roundabout Technologies.
“This session will show what becomes possible when traffic signal controllers move from binary, zone-based vehicle detection to continuous 3D perception of every road user (the same scene-understanding technology used in autonomous vehicles) and use that richer input to do real-time cost/benefit analysis instead of relying on historical data to drive timing assumptions.
Using a Marin County, California road network as the U.S. case, Roundabout Technologies will explain the technology that makes this possible and share the delay reductions and safety improvements resulting from the first deployment of this technology.”
The slides can be viewed bij clicking here.