Podcasts

I have produced +/- 150 podcast interviews as an open source research with experts from around the world. The Metropolitan Mobility podcast, with over 150.000 listeners.

All centered around the question ‘How can we keep metropolitan areas accessible in a sustainable way?’. I make special podcast series for companies and governmental institutions.

All Podcasts
Redesigning Amsterdam
Bus Rapid Transit
Duurzaam Vliegen
Mobility as a Service
BNR Expert Podcast
Public Transport
Prijsprikkels in Mobiliteit
Urban Planning
Cycling Around the World
Electric Cars

Celebrating Cycling Cities with Geert and Chris

Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) discuss the Celebrating Cycling Cities event that took place on the first of June, the best practices they encountered while interviewing mobility experts from all over the world, and with whom they would like to speak next.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Demetrio Scopelliti on Why Milan’s Children are Playing on the Streets Again

“Designing public space is designing for the unexpected.” Demetrio Scopelliti (Director of Urban Planning and Public Space, city of Milan) speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) about the Piazze Aperte and Strate Aperte Plan that changed the streets and squares of Milan. They talk about how introducing a ping pong table brings people together, how you (urban) plan for the unexpected and how the city of Milan built 60 kilometers of cycling track in a year.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Barcelona Superblocks: A livable city through low-traffic zones

“I think it is impossible to be against Superblocks.” Silvia Casorran (Deputy Chief Architect at the Barcelona City Council) and Patrick Kappert (member of neighbourhood organisation Collective Superblock Poblenou) speak with Geert Kloppenburg about the Superblocks of Barcelona. They discuss how the Superblocks started, why everyone is talking about Superblocks and how living in a Superblock changed their lives.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Henna Hovi on Winter Cycling in Helsinki

“I tend to dress for the occasion I’m going to, not for the bicycle trip” Henna Hovi, urban planner and cycling specialist for the city of Helsinki speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett about Helsinki’s Bicycle Action Plan, the challenges and benefits of being a winter cycling city and the tips and tricks they are learning in the Handshake Project.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Rotterdam: Not a Typical Dutch Cycling City

“Rotterdam is maybe the most American like city of the Netherlands” Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (DCE) speak to urban planner José Besselink and cycling specialist Bart Christiaens of the municipality of Rotterdam. They speak about what makes Rotterdam different from other Dutch cities and why it is hard for people to cross the big river that divides the city.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Safe and Dangerous Roads | Biking through Berlin | Part 2

This is the second episode in which Geert Kloppenburg bikes through Berlin with the chair of the German Cycling Association (ADFC) Burkhard Stork and his Berlin colleague Carolina Mazza. They cycle on one of the new cycle lanes and on dangerous roads. Geert meets with Bernhard Ensink (Mobycon) to discuss the pop-up handbook.

Find the video of Geert biking through Berline here.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Anna Garrett on Copenhagen’s Cycle Superhighways

“If you build proper infrastructure, people are going to use it and they are willing to cycle more than five kilometers.” Anna Garret, project leader at Cycle Superhighways, speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) about how cycle superhighways are getting people out of their cars and about how the world’s two top cycling countries, Denmark and the Netherlands, do have a different cycling culture.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Will Norman on Designing London’s Streets for People

“We need to design our streets for people, rather than designing them for cars.” Will Norman, the walking and cycling commissioner of London speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) about low traffic neighbourhoods, how London is dealing with covid-19, and why Will Norman doesn’t let his children see his twitter feed.

In the podcast Will Norman states that there are 22km pop up lanes done and 50km under construction. However, at this moment it is already 60km done and 30km under construction!

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Bas Eickhout on the EU’s best practices and limits

Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament for GreenLeft speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) about the focus of the European Union on cars, why it is hard to limit the co2-emissions of airplanes, and the role of the European Parliament by the promotion of cycling.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Pop-up Bike Lanes | Biking through Berlin | Part 1

This is the first episode in which Geert Kloppenburg bikes through Berlin with the chair of the German Cycling Association (ADFC) Burkhard Stork and his Berlin colleague Carolina Mazza. And the first episode of the Metropolitan Mobility Podcast in German. They cycle on a new pop-up bike lane and discuss how Berlin is trying to become more cycle friendly.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Jill Warren on the European Bike Boom

Co-CEO Jill Warren of the European Cyclist’s Federation speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) about what the cycling industry could learn from the automotive industry, the work of the ECF, the Covid-10 measures tracker and where to find long distance cycling routes through Europe.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Laura Dierenfield on Cycling in the Heart of Texas

“We often shunned these temporary pop-ups because a day or two days to us is a lot of effort for not a lot of return. But now it’s so different.” Active transport manager Laura Dierenfield (City of Austin) speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) about the influence of covid-19 on transportation in Austin (Texas), the Healthy Streets Initiative, and the benefit of study tours.

This episode is a collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Burkhard Stork on the future of cycling in Germany

“In the majority of countries the idea that cyclists should cycle between cars and do not need real own infrastructure, is still dominant.” Burkhard Stork, director of the German Cycling Association (AFDC) speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) about the influence of vehicular cycling on the German bike infrastructure and how building a Dutch cycling network with American speed will shape the future of German cycling.

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Niels van Oort on the bike-transit combination

“What is funny about the bike-transit combination is that, on the one hand, it is complementary to each other but it is also competitive.” Niels van Oort, co-director of the Smart Public Transport Lab speaks with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett about his research on shared bikes and the bike-transit combination.

The discussed articles can be found here: https://bit.ly/2XIZBXV

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Professor of Public Transport Graham Currie on Change

“Change never really happens that quickly, however if you were to take a ten year perspective on your life and look at what changed in that period, you would be pretty amazed at how much had occurred.” Graham Currie, Professor of Public Transport at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) speaks with Geert Kloppenburg about how we can bridge the gap between university and industry, why it is so hard to change the mobility industry, and why driverless cars are not the change that we are looking for.

World Transit Group Clearinghouse website: https://www.worldtransitresearch.info/
Public Transit Research Group website: http://publictransportresearchgroup.info/

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Kent Lundberg on Access for Everyone in Auckland

“What would it mean if we actually treated pedestrians as we did motorways?” Urban planner Kent Lundberg (MRCagney) in conversation with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlett (Dutch Cycling Embassy) on Auckland’s city center masterplan ‘Access for Everyone’ and more.

For more information on A4E: https://www.aucklandccmp.co.nz/

This episode was made in collaboration with the Dutch Cycling Embassy.

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Cycling through Paris with the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Christophe Najdovski

‘Banning cars in Parisian tunnels to make way for cyclists, a miracle?’ In this podcast, I cycle through Paris with Christophe Najdovski, the deputy mayor, to get at street level view of what Paris is doing making and why they are making this massive change.
(To not only listen, but also see how we cycle through Paris, go to www.geertkloppenburg.nl/visuals)

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