08 Meredith Glaser PhD, Urban mobility / Amsterdam
A conversation with urban mobility researcher Meredith Glaser PhD, about urban mobility, policy transfer, and human-scaled accessibility.
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08 Meredith Glaser PhD, Urban mobility / Amsterdam
Bio: Meredith Glaser is an urban mobility researcher and lecturer, based in the Netherlands since 2010. Dr. Glaser’s work focuses on policy innovation, knowledge transfer, and capacity building for accelerated implementation of sustainable transport goals. She brings an interdisciplinary perspective to urban mobility, with her background in public health, urban planning, and environmental science. She has extensive experience acquiring, managing and executing research projects and currently manages the academic output, technical advisory input, and partner engagement for European projects (CYCLEWALK and HANDSHAKE). Her research has been published in international peer-review journals. She is also one of the world’s most experienced educators for professionals seeking to learn Dutch transport planning policies and practices.
In addition to research, she has broad experience teaching all levels, from bachelors and masters to mid-career professionals. She is the academic director of the summer program Planning the Cycling City and co-developed the Coursera on-line course Unraveling the Cycling City. Meredith also regularly provides keynotes at international conferences that explore sustainable transport, innovation, urban design, and placemaking. She has been featured in a range of media outlets, including the The Guardian, Streetsblog, Apolitical, Outside Magazine, and National Public Radio (USA). She is originally from California and holds Masters degrees in urban planning and public health from UC Berkeley. She received her PhD in urban planning from the University of Amsterdam. Source: https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/meredith-glaser/
Education:
PhD in urban planning from the University of Amsterdam.
Master in urban planning and public health from UC Berkeley.
Workplace: Urban Cycling Institute, Director of Programs.
University of Amsterdam, Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer
Current city: Amsterdam.
Websites of interest:
https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/
https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/meredith-glaser/
https://www.coursera.org/learn/unraveling-the-cycling-city
https://www.youtube.com/c/UrbanCyclingInstitute/featured
Publications:
Recent work & open access articles.
Glaser, M., et al. (in press) Learning through policy transfer? Reviewing a decade of scholarship for the field of transport. Transport Reviews.
Glaser, M. (2021) From global ideas to local action: Building capacity to reshape urban transport policy [Doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam]. DARE Repository.
Glaser, M. & Krizek, K. (2021) Can emergency response measures trigger a transition to new transport systems? Exploring the role of “street experiments” from 55 US cities. Transport Policy.
Glaser, M. et al. (2020) Accelerating reform to govern streets in support of human-scaled accessibility. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Glaser, M. et al. (2020). Learning from abroad: An interdisciplinary exploration of knowledge transfer in the transport domain. Research in Transportation Business & Management.
https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/meredith-glaser/
Instagram: @amsterdamcyclechic @unravelingthecyclingcity
Twitter: @dutch_ish
Audio / Video:
https://youtu.be/64rUx9erI3U Spokes! Ridecast with Meredith Glaser _Fantastic ridecast video!
https://youtu.be/kPYgHWSXOXo Virtual Tour of Amsterdam's Cycling Infrastructure by Meredith Glaser
Key words:
Urban mobility, sustainable transport, policy transfer, policy innovation, knowledge transfer, inclusion, human-scaled accessibility, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, Bringing cycling knowledge from science to practice and back.
Episode production:
Soundscapes by Ana Astiazaran / Amsterdam / July 22
Research by Iván López / Santiago
Production support by Austin Roch / Portland
Bike bell sample by Spokes! Ridecast
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