Proven Mobility Practice That U.S. Leaders Can Apply Today
May 5-August 25, 2026
The Smart City Mobility Council’s (SCMC) Visit to the Netherlands ’26 (V2NL26) is not a one-off international visit. We are using it as a leadership instrument to help U.S. agencies build the capacity and operational playbooks needed to deliver better mobility outcomes in practice.
The response to V2NL26 has confirmed something important: public-sector leaders know the current model is not enough. They are looking for proven ways to move from fragmented efforts to more coordinated, outcome-driven execution. That is the space SCMC is actively shaping.
Webinar Participation
Public Sector: Included for eligible U.S. public-sector participants
Non-Government: $295 per webinar, full Series Package: $995
Public-sector participation is offered as part of SCMC’s broader professional development and capacity-building effort for U.S. agencies and public institutions.
V2NL26 gives participants direct access to proven practice, but participation is necessarily limited. To extend access and reinforce the broader effort, we are adding two complementary elements that, together with the Visit itself, create a structured pathway for leaders and teams who do not just want to learn, but want to be better equipped to act:
- A U.S.-based event that creates a domestic platform for masterclasses, workshops, and practical working sessions. It is tentatively scheduled for October 27–28 in Chicago. Pre-registration is available here.
- A nine-session webinar series from May 5 to August 25, featuring masterclasses, workshops, and operational examples from both Europe and the U.S. The series is intended to provide context, methods, practical playbooks, and a growing community of leaders working through similar challenges, while making clear that many of these challenges have already been successfully addressed elsewhere.
We are inviting participants, their teams, and the wider professional community to join the webinar series. The objective is straightforward: to begin building the shared understanding, practical confidence, and implementation readiness needed for the next operational model in U.S. mobility.
2026 Webinar Series
The webinar series is designed to help public-sector practitioners, agency leaders, civic stakeholders, engineering organizations, and industry participants engage with proven methods, practical examples, and implementation perspectives before the Visit itself.
Together, these webinars are intended to help participants build a stronger understanding of what better mobility performance requires in practice, what is transferable into U.S. conditions, and how to move from ambition to execution.
All webinars are one hour and begin at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time. Schedule details can be found here. Topics, speakers, format, and scheduling may be refined as needed.
Recordings are posted here.
1. From Policy to Street-Level Results: Europe as an Example – Transition to the Next Operational Model for U.S. Mobility
May 5, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
With Willem Frederik Metzelaar, Director West, European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility
Paul Hoekstra, Founder and Principal Consultant, Smart City Mobility Council
In this foundational session, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility explains how Europe collaborates across cities and countries to share what works, fund promising initiatives, and scale effective mobility solutions, including through WISE Cities: a human-centered framework built around Wellbeing, Inclusivity, Sustainability, and Economic Evidence. The Smart City Mobility Council (SCMC) then introduces the value-based operating model and explains the structural transformation transportation is undergoing in the United States.
Together, the session shows how this shift gives cities and agencies the opportunity to lead change, define desired outcomes, and create demand pull around public value rather than being pushed by technology. It provides policymakers, transportation agencies, and transit agencies with an integrated view of the emerging model, a practical frame to apply in the U.S., sharper questions to ask, and stronger expectations to set for engineering and technology firms, supported by U.S. proof points showing measurable economic and wellness value and material improvements in road safety.
2. From Intersection Decisions to Multimodal Network Orchestration: U.S. Proof Points
May 19, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
With Paul van Koningsbruggen, Move Global Business Unit Director, TNL/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.
3. Show Me the Money: Where Transit Operating Dollars Are Lost — and How the TOI Finds Them
June 2, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
With Paul Hoekstra, Founder and Principal Consultant, and Damian Breen, CCO, 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. 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.
4. Multi-Modal Design of Urban Corridors; a Dutch inspired approach in Charlotte, NC
June 16, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
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.
5. Using Predictive, Interactive Digital Twins to Plan Mobility, Growth, and Urban Change
June 30, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
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.
6. How the Dutch Design for Safety, Access, and Movement: Milwaukee as a U.S. Use Case
July 14, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
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.
7. Applying Outcome-Based Technology in a Mature Transportation System: Waco’s Use Cases in Practice
July 28, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
With Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Director, Waco 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.
8. What if traffic signals could see like self-driving vehicles? A case study.
August 11, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
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.
9. A City’s Mobility Journey: From Ambition to Measurable Results
August 25, 2026 – 2:00 PM ET / 11:0 AM PT / 8:00 PM Amsterdam time
With a European City (to be announced), facilitated by the European Institute for Innovation and Technology Urban Mobility
A city in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Urban Mobility network will showcase its mobility journey, including how it created a clear vision and set objectives, translated that into a practical delivery approach, and achieved measurable results. The session will highlight how the city moved from ambition to implementation, what it took to make progress in practice, and the lessons learned that can help other public-sector leaders act with greater confidence and clarity.
Who should participate
This series is intended for:
- Transportation, transit, and public works professionals
- Agency and department leadership
- Transit agencies, MPOs, and other state and local public-sector practitioners
- Public educational and research institutions
- Private-sector and non-government organizations seeking a broader perspective on proven practice
Registration
Public Sector: Included for eligible U.S. public-sector participants
Non-Government: $295 per webinar; Full Series Package: $995