The conference "Decongesting Europe: New Approaches to Freeing Our Cities" brought together the partners and pilot cities from the FLOW and TRACE projects on 13 and 14 March 2018 in Brussels. Below, you can download the presentations from the conference. Click on the hashtag #MakeAllModesCount to see how participants engaged in the discussion online! 

Opening Plenary 

• Paving the way for walking and cycling in transport policy, Andy Cope, Sustrans 
• Managing congestion: results from FLOW partner cities, Kristin Tovaas, Rupprecht Consult
• TRACE-ing users for better planning and sustainable mobility, Paulo Ferreira, INESC-ID

Parallel Sessions

1A

• This session was made of a panel with politicians followed by interactive discussion in groups. There were no presentations foreseen. 

1B

• Cycling and modelling for sustainability in Budapest, László Sándor Kerényi, BKK 
• Reducing congestion: How Dublin will FLOW into the future, Christopher K. Manzira, City of Dublin 
• The need for data driven spatial planning in Breda, Rob Temme, City of Breda

1C

• Information and guidelines on using tracking data for mobility planning, Stanko Bajcetic, FTTE Belgrade 
• Gdynia's bicycle model, Michal Miszewski, City of Gdynia 
  Extracting multimodal behaviour from crowdsourced data to support decision making, Angel Lopez, University of Ghent 
• The FLOW approach in Munich, Johannes Keller, City of Munich 

Recommendations Plenary 

In the "Recommendations Plenary", speakers from all the parallel sessions presented the main points from their sessions. Karen Vancluysen, Polis Secretary General, awarded the Dutch consulting firm Goudappel Coffeng with the FLOW Reduction Congestion Award. The speakers then reflected on the "FLOW Recommendations" in a debate moderated by Siegfried Rupprecht (Rupprecht Consult). 

Introduction to FLOW and TRACE tools 

• The FLOW tools. How to assess the benefits of walking and cycling?, Nora Szabo, PTV Group 
• TRACE tools for better cities, João Bernardino, TIS 

Parallel sessions 

2A

• Walking and cycling in transport modelling, Torsten Beutin, PTV
• Multimodal assessment of the impacts of walking and cycling measures, Nora Szabo, PTV

2B

• This session was made of three thematic working groups on the TRACE tools. No presentations were foreseen. 

2C

• What traffic planners need to know about modelling?, Támas Mátrai, BME
• Transparency and ethics in transport modelling. Dublin city council experience, Karen Hosie and Christopher K. Manzira, City of Dublin 
• Bias, uncertainty and the ethics of transport modelling. Why this affects walking and cycling, Martin Wedderburn, Walk21

3A

• How to do it on the macro level? Experiences from Budapest, András Kőrizs, BKK
• Cycle to work: Effective cycling campaigns in Sofia, Metodi Avramov, Sofia
• Pedestrian safety and less congestion, can we have it both ways?, Pedro Gouveia, City of Lisbon 

3B

• TAToo. Collecting and analysing data for better mobility planning and communication, André Ramos, TIS

3C 

• Tracking travel behaviour to facilitate behaviour change, Evelien Bossuyt, Mobiel21
• Using incentives to encourage mobility changes: exploring the impacts, Frances Hodgson, University of Leeds. Presented by Marcel Meeuwissen, EMPOWER project. 
• What we learnt from campaigns in Sofia: impact assessment of a non-infrastructure measure, Evgeny Apostolov, Bulgaria Cycling Association  

Closing Plenary 

• Multimodal mobility in the Netherlands, Lucas Harms, KiM