Just Transition Webinar series: Active Travel

Just Transition Webinar series: Active Travel & Health
14 February 2023 - 14:00-15:30 CET - Online

Fostering active travel for people with disabilities

With many cities taking different actions to curb car use and prioritise active travel, are they also ensuring that disabled people are part of the equation? Active modes, and especially walking, can be the most democratic modes available, but to be able to unlock this potential for everyone, cities and practitioners need to address the barriers to active travel for all people. These barriers are not only in infrastructure-related (physical) but also financial, behavioural and societal. This webinar aims at discussing how to make active travel not only accessible but inclusive for everyone.

About the Just Transition Webinar series:

At the 2021 Annual POLIS Conference in Gothernburg, we launched the Just Transition Agenda. 

Urban mobility has to change substantively, to become cleaner and more resilient- this is no secret. However, affordability, safety, and inclusivity must be at the heart of this transition.

However, there is a long road (train track and bike lane) yet to travel.  

Therefore, we are delighted to announce our Just Transition webinar series. Across several online events from January to March 2023, we will traverse the multifaceted ways affordability, gender-related mobility patterns, age, cognitive capacities (and more), can guide the future of our cities and regions.  

A truly Just Transition is one which addresses imbalance and unfairness across the entire mobility spectrum. Thus, each webinar will launch an examination into mobility justice from a specific perspective, in accordance with POLIS’ different working groups.  

From freight to parking, traffic efficiency to active travel, electromobility to safety- and everything in between- we begin to discuss how each sector has its part to play, the challenges ahead, and how are cities and regions are treading new ground.