Anthropolis Colloquium 2021: Envisioning Sustainable Futures for Urban Mobility

Patrice Aknin

Patrice Aknin manages the scientific arm of the Institute by supporting and assisting its scientific growth and coordinating relationships with its partners in public research and higher education. A PhD of Université Paris-Sud and “Habilitation à diriger des Recherches” of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan, his career was one of research at Inrets, later known as Ifsttar (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Developpement and Networks). In 2008 he was appointed Research Director at Ifsttar. In 2013, he was appointed Scientific Director of the SNCF in the Innovation & Research division, in charge of the group’s doctoral studies, academic partnerships, expert network and innovative design. He is currently a professor at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

Bernard Yannou

Bernard Yannou is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering Design and Director of the Industrial Engineering Research Department (Laboratoire Génie Industriel, LGI) at CentraleSupélec. He received an M.Sc. (1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (ENSC), an M.Sc. (1989) in Computer Science from Paris-6 University, and a Ph.D. (1994) in Industrial Engineering from ENSC. His research interests are design automation, design management / methodologies / new product development, value and user-centered design, artificial intelligence and computers in design, system thinking and engineering, design under uncertainty, decision-based design, innovation engineering, sustainable design, and industrial ecology, and multidisciplinary design optimization.

Jakob Puchinger

Jakob Puchinger is responsible for the research axis Scientific Computing and Optimization at IRT-SystemX as well as Professor of Industrial Engineering and responsible for the Operations Management team at the Industrial Engineering Research Department at CentraleSupélec and co-director of the Futures Cities Lab at Centrale Pékin. His main research interests are in urban logistics, human centered innovation for urban mobility, disruptive technologies and algorithmic optimization of the underlying transport systems. After completing his doctoral studies at the TU Vienna in 2006, Jakob Puchinger worked at the NICTA Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. He joined the Austrian Institute of Technology in 2008 where he became head of the business unit Dynamic Transportation Systems in 2014. Jakob Puchinger additionally held a position as external lecturer at TU Vienna, regularly offering a course on optimization methods for transport logistics. Jakob Puchinger is the author of more than 70 scientific publications.

Ole B. Jensen

Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University (Denmark). He is deputy director and co-founder of the Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS). He is the author of Staging Mobilities, Routledge, 2013, and Designing Mobilities, 2014, Aalborg University Press, the Editor of the four-volume collection Mobilities, Routledge, 2015, and author (with Ditte Bendix Lanng) of Mobilities Design. Urban Designs for Mobile Situations, 2017, Routledge, co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Urban Mobilities, 2020 (with Claus Lassen, Ida S.G. Larsen, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and Vincent Kaufman), and Det Epidemiske Samfund (The Pandemic Society), 2020, Hans Reitzel (with Nikolaj Schultz).

Flore Vallet

Researcher on Human Centered Design at IRT SystemX and Assistant Professor at CentraleSupélec. Before, she was assistant professor at the Mechanical Systems Engineering Department of the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC). She graduated in mechanical engineering design at the ENS Cachan (1993), and obtained a Master’s degree in industrial design from UTC in 1999. In 2012, she completed a PhD on the dimensions of eco-design practices towards education of engineering designers. She is a member of the French EcoSD (Eco-Conception de Systèmes Durables) network and of the Design Society. Her fields of interest are practices of eco-design and eco-innovation in industry and for education, human centered approaches in design and eco-design.

Noémie Aubron

Noémie Aubron is a French content creator passionately trying to connect fiction, prospective and collective strategy. She helps individuals and organisations think about their future(s) through fiction.

Tjark Gall

Tjark Gall is pursuing a PhD on the topic of developing human-centred scenarios of Urban Mobility Futures. He is an urbanist with a strong interest in urban development, climate change impacts for urban residents, and the effective use and visualisation of urban data to strengthen evidence-based decision- and policymaking. He obtained a MSc Urban Management and Development Studies course at IHS, Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL), and MSc Architecture at the Technical University of Brunswick (GER).

Before starting his doctoral research, he worked as project manager for the research branch of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) on the EU H2020 Project +CityxChange. His research interest and publications span urban mobility, futures studies, social sustainability, indicator-based assessments, mapping of risk, and development frameworks.

Sébastian Goethals

Sebastien Goethals is an urban planner, architect and urban mobility entrepreneur from Belgium that has worked globally on the physical and digital transformation of urban environments with a people-centered approach.
He has founded Citilinks in Shanghai and Rotterdam to build multidisciplinary teams working on the integration of mobility systems, design innovation, seamless intermodality, street metabolism and urban governance at various levels in East Asia, Europe and Africa. He advises and delivers projects and studies for municipalities, mobility service platforms, industries and transport authorities in terms of adequate transport policies, sustainable mobility planning, mass transit, automation, shared-used vehicles and multimodal solutions from a design-sensitive angle. He has been director of technical assistance of ISOCARP from 2017 to 2020.

Marie Sevenet

Dr. Marie Sevenet received her diploma in Geography and Urban Planning from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) in 2005. Since 2010, she has been working as a researcher at the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) in Karlsruhe in the field of modeling and simulation of energy in urban planning. In 2013, she defended her Doctoral Thesis at the University of the Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) on the impact of urban form in 3D on the sustainability. At her work at EIFER she is developing new spatial methodology based on GIS and statistics for two activities. She is working on several methodologies to well understanding the energy problematic in the urban planning. Her main thematic are spatial analysis and modelling, urban model, mobility & accessibility and fuel poverty. On those topics, she has contributed to several EDF R&D projects and Public Funded project at European and National Level

Guy Fournier

Guy Fournier is Professor affiliated to Pforzheim University in Germany and an expert in sustainable mobility. French born and equipped with a German Doctorate Degree; he has worked primarily in the technology sector in several countries in Europe prior to joining academia. His core interest and expertise rests within international economy, sustainable development and new innovative business models with electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles. He has guided municipalities and companies of German industry towards more eco-friendly and sustainable approaches to energy consumption and mobility, engaging users and producers of cars and to make mobility truly sustainable and economically viable. He is currently working on a Horizon project to design and carry out full scale demonstrations of urban transport automation by deploying, for the first time worldwide, fleets of autonomous mini-buses in low to medium demand areas of 4 European demonstrator cities: Geneva, Lyon, Copenhagen and Luxembourg, and 3 replicator cities. In 2012 he got the Award of excellence in teaching from the engineering faculty and the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim and in 1994 the Award of best PhD in Germany from SEL-Alcatel Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung (Stuttgart). He was responsible for international development of the Engineering faculty and author of many contributions to journals and books.

Maxime Audouin

Maxime Audouin is known for his previous research on smart mobility governance. He has authored several publications including « The Governance of Smart Mobility » (Springer, 2018); and « The development of Mobility-as-a-Service in the Helsinki metropolitan area: A multi-level governance analysis », in Research in Transportation Business and Management (2018). In His PhD, conducted in the Chaire Management of Network Industries at EPFL, headed by Prof. Finger, he looked through a qualitative and case-based inquiry at the roles public authorities are playing in the development MaaS-like schemes, using governance and socio technical transition literatures. He now works in the private sector as head of the Digital and Innovation Lab for Keolis Group.

Ashvar Abdoul Haime

Ashvar Abdoul Haime, Project Lead on Autonomous & Electric Mobility at Electricity of France (EDF), is currently working on hot topics such as autonomous vehicles, autonomous charging technologies, charging infrastructure and related services. Ashvar holds a master degree in Electric and Electronics Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to joining EDF, he worked in R&D, Energy sector Consulting and in the Startup Ecosystem.

Aurélien Belhocine

Aurélien Belhocine is in charge of contracts and partnerships for MaaS projects at Île-de-France Mobilités. His mission is to bring the various stakeholders together and to put in place the right contracts within the MaaS ecosystem. He has a master’s degree on Metropolitan Strategy and Governance at SciencesPo Bordeaux and prior to joining île-de-France Mobilités, Aurélien worked in the smart city and urban A.I field with the startup Qucit.

Julia Janke

Julia joined the LVMT (Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport) and LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés) in October 2020 as a researcher and post doc as part of the Research Chair “Regulation of the city of tomorrow » between École des Ponts ParisTech and RATP group. In this projet, she compiles a census of MaaS platforms and develops methods and instruments to evaluate the impact of MaaS platforms on urban transport systems. This project is co-directed by Virginie Boutueil (LVMT, ENPC) and François-Mathieu Poupeau (LATTS, CNRS). Previously, Julia obtained her PhD in transport economics and planning at the University of Technology in Vienna (Austria) and studied travel behavior change as a one-year guest researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California (Davis, US).

Mariana Reyes

Researcher and PhD candidate on “Mobility as a Service: Concepts, governance and business models.” Mariana has a degree in Architecture and a diploma in Urban Planning and Management of Metropolitan Mobility in Mexico. She joined the Chair in November 2020, after completing a MSc in Urban Planning, Transportation and Mobility at the Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris (UGE-ENPC) with the research topic of “Governance of Mobility as a Service and its effects on public transport systems”.

Katja Schechtner

Katja Schechter is an Urban Scientist at OECD and MIT and recent Finalist at Fast Company Award 2018 World Changing Ideas with the project ADB Pedicab – Buddha Pedal Power. She works as an Urban Scientist at OECD in Paris, as a researcher at MIT Media Lab and as a speaker and consultant across Asia, Europe and the US. With homes in Vienna, Paris and Boston, she is a global urban nomad, bringing together people and bridging cultures – in science.

Martin Dirnwöber

Rapid development in areas such as Automated Driving, Shared Mobility or Mobility as a Service will facilitate new and promising mobility solutions. Coordination will be essential to fully exploit the potential of these solutions and to avoid negative effects. This presentation will address Digital Infrastructure as a key element for coordination and support of new mobility solutions.

Adam F. Abdin

Adam F. Abdin is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow within the Future Cities Lab., a joint research lab at Centrale Pékin, in collaboration with Beihang University and CentraleSupélec. He is also attached to the research group on « Risk and Resilience of Complex Systems » at the Laboratory of Industrial Engineering, CentraleSupélec, University Paris-Saclay, France. Adam F. Abdin’s research is focused on developing techno-economic modeling and optimization frameworks for improving the resilience of complex engineering systems, critical infrastructure systems and interdependent systems, against failures. Most notably, the development of methodological frameworks combining data analytics approaches and robust optimization techniques to improve the robustification and emergency response strategies of infrastructure systems against different hazards. Adam F. Abdin obtained his Ph.D. degree in Engineering of Complex Systems from CentreSupélec, University Paris-Saclay, for the research work done within the « Chair on Complex Systems and the Energy Challenge » of the European Foundation for New Energy of Electricite de France (EDF).

Milena Klasing Chen

Milena Klasing Chen is Manager for Mobility at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Together with more than 200 leading businesses, she works to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. She holds a PhD in innovation management and has contributed to develop innovation models for low cost design and to research on public transport. She is the author of “Innover avec le low cost. Le cas du transport public” (Presses des Mines, 2017)

Jean-Pierre Ponssard

Jean-Pierre Ponssard is emeritus research director at CNRS and associate research fellow at CIRANO. His fields of research concern economics of environment, industrial organization, and game theory. He recently co-edited two books Corporate Social Responsibility: from Compliance to Opportunity (with Patricia Crifo) and Economie du climat : Pistes pour l’après Kyoto (with Olivier Godard). Jean-Pierre Ponssard was professor of economics at Ecole Polytechnique and the head of the Laboratoire d’économétrie. He currently leads the “Business Sustainability” Research Project at Europlace Institute of Finance (EIF). In 2010 he received the excellence award from CNRS. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, and an engineer degree from Ecole Polytechnique.