Mobility in the Netherlands isn't about isolated projects or single transport modes—it's a smart ecosystem where technology, infrastructure, policy, and innovation reinforce each other. In this panel session, Dutch mobility experts from the Connekt Pavilion demonstrate how this integrated approach works in practice. How do governments, knowledge institutions, and businesses collaborate? What role do data, sensors, and digital platforms play? How do we achieve sustainable modal shift? And how do pilots and experiments translate into concrete solutions?
Guided by a moderator, the panel explores these questions from different perspectives, building a 45-minute narrative that offers concrete insights into the Dutch mobility ecosystem.
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This session offers a unique look into how the Netherlands creates integrated, smart, and sustainable mobility solutions. An inspiring session for anyone interested in the future of mobility, urban planning, and innovation.
Rolf Appel is an experienced and dedicated Business Unit Manager Traffic & Water Management at ICT TriOpSys, with a strong background in the IT consultancy industry and the Traffic Management /Mobility domain. He’s been active for over 30 years in Mission Critical systems and Traffic & Water solutions. Rolf has proven to have a great talent for addressing the business need with adequate solutions. He has a strong empathy for both customers and consultants. Rolf excels at understanding and meeting customer needs, taking project responsibility and inspiring the team to deliver what the customer needs. Recent successes include delivery of Intelligent Traffic Solutions, Smart Mobility, Smart Parking, Mission Critical Systems and Sensor based systems.
Quite recently TriOpSys has delivered their advanced Smart City Control solution, which allows multimodal traffic management, combined with managing other aspects of the public space, such as quality of life, safety and sustainability. The platform runs as a SaaS service from a sovereign cloud environment and allows municipalities (and others) to share open data, jointly manage the public space and improve quality of life in the city.
Mobility is a very dynamic field that is changing rapidly since data is the new raw material for mobility. It is my goal to contribute to the actual deployment of innovations in the Smart Mobility domain and thus bringing improvements to society in the broadest sense. Every day I am involved in making Smart Mobility concrete in proposals and projects for clients of Goudappel. Especially the fact that non-technological aspects are key for successful implementations make implementations of innovations in our domain a fascinating challenge I happily and successfully contribute to. As a Smart Mobility consultant for Goudappel I assist our clients in implementing data driven mobility strategies as well as bringing traffic management to the era of data driven traffic management.
Jurgen Rutgers is a Dutch entrepreneur, innovator, and strategic thinker with decades of experience in digital business development, data-driven solutions, and mobility technology. As founder and co-owner of several tech companies, Jurgen plays a connecting role, working closely with partners and teams to develop solutions that combine technology with social impact. His focus lies in leadership, product strategy, and creating digital services that deliver lasting value.
At TripService, where he is co-owner, Jurgen collaborates with a specialized team to develop smart mobility solutions. TripService supports governments, road authorities, contractors, and large-scale event organizers with digital traffic management, incident handling, real-time traffic data, and online traffic campaigns. In partnership with platforms like Google Maps, Waze, TomTom, and Apple Maps, TripService contributes to a safer and more accessible environment. (tripservice.nl)
Jurgen strongly believes in co-creation and the power of multidisciplinary teams. His work is defined by a combination of technical expertise and insight into human behavior — enabling him, together with his team, to improve accessibility and develop digital solutions that make a meaningful difference for road users every day.
Paul is the innovation-driven Director of Mobility within Technolution. From the start, I have focused on innovations in (road and vessel) traffic management. Not limiting myself to applied research and proofs-of-concepts, but helping the innovations find their way to Technolution's commercial propositions and platforms for traffic information and management. And yes, this requires the patience that can take 10 to 15 years from the moment of the first targeted demonstrations to the broadly rolled-out and operational solutions that really matter. A logical next step in recent years was to help the innovations cross the boundaries of modalities and civil infrastructural networks and land them within new forms of public-private cooperation. The challenge for the coming years lies in connecting the traffic domain with the other domains within livable and vibrant cities and regions, including energy, high assurance and healthcare.
Bob Randsdorp is an experienced mobility and smart transportation leader with 20+ years of driving innovation at the intersection of traffic management, intelligent transport systems, and software-enabled mobility solutions. Currently serving as Director of Business Development Smart Mobility Software at Haskoning, Bob focuses on helping public and private mobility stakeholders improve daily commutes, enhance traffic operations, and implement forward-looking transport strategies that increase efficiency and accessibility.
He is passionate about solving real-world mobility challenges, believing that time spent stuck in traffic should be addressed with data-driven, collaborative solutions rather than accepted as inevitable. Bob works closely across sectors to convert policy into practical software implementations — from connected traffic management systems to smarter information flows that guide road users in real time. Bob also has experience in developing patented technology related to congestion analysis and intelligent network optimization, demonstrating his commitment to advancing the technical foundations of modern transport systems. As a frequent speaker and contributor at industry events, Bob advocates for collaboration, communication, and innovation as key enablers of future mobility systems that are efficient, sustainable, and people-centric.
At CROW, we develop knowledge about infrastructure and transport in the physical living environment. We provide practical solutions that are immediately applicable in practice, such as standards and (design) guidelines. CROW aims to provide governments, road administrators and private organisations with the means they need to manage, control and scale their efforts in a uniform manner, in order to create and maintain a safe and sustainable environment for us all. Personally, I mainly focus on projects related to vehicle automation and road safety. My interest is to make sure that the interaction between the human road user, the vehicle and the physical and digital environment can interact with each other safely.
Raised in Utrecht and educated at the Hotel School in The Hague, founder of BUKO Digital. With a strong passion for hospitality and digitalisation, I have been working since 2020 to reduce the impact of traffic-related disruption for road users and local residents.
In just four years, BUKO Digital has established itself as a leading player within the traffic management sector across the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany.
On a daily basis, I am active both in the Netherlands and internationally, inspiring, and motivating road authorities, contractors, and other specialists to make effective use of today’s digital possibilities. Work safe and smarter — let technology work for you.
Wim Broeders is CEO and founder (2010) of MAPtm. MAP transforming mobility is an innovative company in the domain of Traffic and Mobility, innovators specialized in Traffic Management, CCAM and (C-)ITS. MAPtm acts as a strategic partner for road and government authorities, contractors, service-providers and traffic managers. We advise and co-operate with them at strategic and tactical level.
We give support in traffic management projects, from design and planning through to preparation, execution and including the complete operations. Traffic management requires smart, effective solutions. We have the right people, expertise and mindset and a large scale of tooling and services. Our team of experts covers a wide range of experience and expertise like: Data Scientists, Traffic Engineers, AI-Experts, System Architects and much more to achieve these solutions. These different fields of expertise creates the conditions for developing innovative, groundbreaking solutions which are still realistic and deployable.
Wim has a background in Mathematics and Computer Science (Delft University of Technology). Before he founded MAPtm, he was active in different sectors within the domain of traffic and smart mobility. He worked for the industry as developer at Philips in Eindhoven and Business Unit director Consultancy at Vialis. He also has experience in the public sector as senior and strategic advisor at Rijkswaterstaat and the European Commission. Finally, he also worked at consultancy firms as senior International ITS Consultant and Business Unit manager (former DHV and AGV/Holland Railconsult).
Marije is working for the international label of Connekt (ITS Netherlands) the Smart Mobility Embassy. Connekt (ITS Netherlands) is the independent Dutch network for smart, sustainable, and inclusive mobility and logistics. It connects government, knowledge institutions, and businesses to discuss challenges and develop, scale innovative mobility solutions. The Smart Mobility Embassy, Connekt’s international label, extends this impact worldwide by linking Dutch expertise to global partners and bringing international knowledge back to the Netherlands and vice versa.
The smart moves session, organised by Smart Mobility Embassy with members of Connekt and its pavilion, brings the network together to share insights from the Dutch mobility ecosystem and explore how collaboration, data, and innovation deliver practical solutions. After the session, you are warmly invited to continue the discussion at the Connekt Pavilion – stand 02.210.
Annet van Veenendaal is from the National Road Data Portal NDW in the Netherlands. She has over 25 years of experience in Traffic Management and Smart Mobility. Currently, she is the project coordinator of TISGRADE, a project with 54 public and private partners (including service providers) to improve the Traffic Information Services in 21 countries. For this, TISGRADE will work on all aspects of the data value chain for real time traffic data ánd will do so in public private collaboration. As a psychologist by origin, she’s especially interested in public private collaboration.
