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Exciting week in the Netherlands! Our 5-day study tour for the The World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region Transport and Urban teams is in full swing! 🚲🌏

From cycling tours and river cruises in Rotterdam to exploring urban development innovations in Delft, our participants are gaining firsthand insights into how cities can prioritize people over cars. Highlights include connecting with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in The Hague, presenting at TU Delft, and learning about climate-resilient urban mobility at Hofplein, Rotterdam (BAM Nederland).

The rest of this week, we’ll be taking the group to Utrecht and Amsterdam. Stay tuned for a full recap of this eventful Study Tour in the upcoming weeks.

Interested in organizing a study tour for your organization? Reach out to learn more ⬇️

Are shared paths really the solution?

Mobycon Pacific Director Lennart Nout argues they’re often a compromise that leaves no one happy: cyclists frustrated, pedestrians uneasy, and dogs… unpredictable.
Shared paths might work in some contexts, but do they really scale as serious cycling infrastructure? Or are we settling for “good enough” when we should be aiming higher?

Read the full blog at the Linktree in our bio!

What is the value of experiencing Dutch design best practices from a first-hand perspective?
 
Learning through experiencing the culture, and using infrastructure can help planners, city officials, and citizens understand how a space can be modified for the better! Last summer, our team had the chance to go on their own version of a Study Tour and experience the integrated mobility networks of Delft and other Dutch Cities.
 
Read the blog to find out what they learned, where they went, and their takeaways, at the Linktree in our bio!
Or, sign up for one of our new Masterclasses to experience best-practices first-hand!
 

Have you ever taken a trip via bicycle?

Throughout Europe, this is a normal travel method as a result of the EuroVelo Certified Cycle Routes, which can only be certified by trained instructors, like our colleague Moniek Jansen.

Interested in learning more about how to get more people cycling in your community?
Read the blog at the Linktree in our bio! Or, check out our NEW four-part ONLINE Behavior Change Masterclass, focused on how to get more people cycling using social perspective!
Reserve your spot with instructors Moniek Jansen & Angela van der Kloof, at the Linktree in our bio.

This weekend, catch up on our latest Mobycon Academy Podcast Episodes!

Dont’t miss discussions on:
⭐️ The benefit of CYCLING EDUCATION in primary schools
⭐️Safety, Parking, & Traffic Control Benefits of STREET TREES & PARKING BAYS!

Listen to the episodes now via YouTube, Spotify, Vimeo, or our website at the Linktree in our bio and let us know which topic you found most interesting!

Mobycon, with partners Toole Design Group, developed a plan for Commercial Street in Nanaimo, Canada, using design concepts that would create a renewed sense of place and a -scale . Key to the process was .

See the plan adopted by the city here:

Commercial Street Master Plan, Nanaimo, Canada Mobycon developed a plan for Commercial Street in Nanaimo, Canada, with design concepts that would create a human-scale streetscape.

Mobycon worked with the World Resources Institute partner cities around the world to support a variety of goals. We collaborated with, and had the opportunity to learn from, Addis Ababa, multiple cities in Asia, as well as Vietnam and Brazil!

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World Resources Institute Mobycon partnered with the World Resources Institute (WRI) as an expert consultant to provide coaching services to WRI partner cities. This on-call relationship enables the team to assist partners with pre-identified, individual mobility challenges. This collaboration has included supporting the dev...

As part of the Communities on the Move program in North Carolina, Mobycon led a workshop on for a group of community-based interns and is supporting the creation of a comprehensive report on active mobility in the state.

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Communities on the Move The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) received funding to support communities in encouraging higher levels of activity through active transportation. The Communities on the Move program, started in 2018, has two main goals: to reduce...

TOMORROW on Mobycon Academy! Communications and Engagement Advisor Melissa Bruntlett sits down with Rusudan Zhozhadze, Head of Municipal Policy Department at Batumi City Hall, to discuss the Safe Way to School pilot co-developed by Mobycon last year.

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New research from the University of Leicester shows a link between noisy and an increased risk of hypertension. The study, analysing over 240,000 individuals over 8 years, found that people living near road traffic were more likely to develop hypertension. The findings suggest stricter noise guidelines, quieter , and .

Read more: http://ow.ly/wYpu50NGV6q

Road noise makes blood pressure rise, study finds Researchers say they studied data from more than 240,000 people who lived near noisy roads.

Next week, Communications and Engagement Advisor Melissa Bruntlett will be in at a forum hosted by Vivre en Ville to present on the Netherlands' approach to and how it can be applied in the North American context.

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