Lucas Harms
Lucas has been appointed as professor Smart & Sustainable Urban Mobility in 2025. He works for the research group Process Innovation & Information Systems and the Centre of Expertise Smart Sustainable Cities. His research focuses on the question how effective interventions in the mobility system can be developed that contribute to a sustainable, healthy, liveable, safe and accessible urban environment.
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Lucas previously worked as Deputy Head Active Mobility at the Sustainable Mobility Directorate of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Before that, he was Managing Director of the Dutch Cycling Embassy, a public-private network that focuses on sharing knowledge and expertise about the Netherlands as a cycling country. Lucas has a background in research and policy and extensive experience in the field of urban mobility planning. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) on the relationship between socio-cultural changes and daily mobility patterns and has also worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (KiM), the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), the University of Amsterdam and as a traffic engineering lecturer at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.
"An effective mobility policy focuses not only on improving accessibility, but also on helping cities to become more sustainable, more safe, more social, more wealthy, more healthy and more happy places to live."
Lucas Harms, professor Smart & Sustainable Urban Mobility
Expertise
- Urban Mobility Planning
- Cycling policy and cycling promotion
- Traffic safety and capacity building
