A Mini-Symposium from UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Monday, June 23, 2025 How can cities encourage more people to walk and cycle — and to do so in safety? In this mini-symposium, we highlight success stories from cities around the world, looking beyond the well-known models of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Session 1: What research tells us
New research from UCLA, C40 Cities, and the Institute of Transportation and Development Policy demonstrates how scaling up ambitions for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure can help achieve substantial climate change and health benefits at the global scale. Adam Millard-Ball will present new research from UCLA, in partnership with Google, that provide data-driven guidance on how to encourage active transportation in cities around the world. It draws on travel data from more than 11,500 cities in 121 countries, worldwide.
Session 2: Sharing city experiences
This session brings together planners from three cities that exemplify successful planning for walking and cycling in different contexts.
Session 3: Learning Together
The last portion of the mini-symposium will consist of a workshop where participants will choose breakout rooms and join a facilitated discussion.
Speakers
Camila Herrero
Senior Manager, Walking and CyclingCamila is the Walking and Cycling Senior Manager in the Climate Solutions and Networks team, leading the active mobility network of 35+ cities in all continents and regions to foster walking and cycling solutions through peer-to-peer exchange and technical assistance.
Camila has been a cycling advocate in Mexico City. Prior to C40, she contributed to diverse programmes and projects for international organisations such as the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in Mexico, the Inter-American Development Bank, and BYCS, as well as regional and local governments in Latin America. Her work has focussed on the intersection between cities and sustainable mobility, climate change, and gender.
Camila graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with a BSc in International Relations and an MSc in Urban and Economic Geography from Utrecht University.
Bartek Komorowski
Team Leader, Street Design PracticesBartek Komorowski is an urban planner by training and has worked in the field of active mobility for 18 years. He holds degrees in Cognitive Science (B.Sc.) and Urban Planning (M.U.P.) from McGill University. He is currently a team leader at the City of Montreal Urban Planning and Mobility Department. His team is responsible for developing and disseminating street design guidelines that embody the City’s policies with respect to sustainable mobility, road safety, universal accessibility, and climate change adaptation.
Prior to joining the City, Bartek spent 7 years as a Project Leader in the research and consulting department at Vélo Québec, Canada’s largest cycling advocacy organization. He is a coauthor of Vélo Québec’s 2020 design manual, Aménager pour les piétons et les cyclistes (Planning and Designing for Pedestrians and Cyclists).
Bartek is a member of the Active Transportation Integrated Committee (ATIC) of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) and a board member of the Winter Cycling Federation (WCF), which organizes the international Winter Cycling Congress.
Adonia Lugo
Staff ResearcherCultural anthropologist Adonia E. Lugo was born and raised in traditional and unceded Acjachemen territory and now lives and works in traditional and unceded Tongva territory in Los Angeles. Adonia began investigating transportation, race, and space during her graduate studies at UC Irvine, when she co-created the Los Angeles open street event CicLAvia and the organization today known as People for Mobility Justice. Since receiving her doctorate in 2013, Adonia has applied her research on “human infrastructure” in sustainable mobility advocacy and helped to define the concept of “mobility justice.” Adonia is a Staff Researcher at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, a 2022 appointee to the California Transportation Commission, and a member of Los Angeles Walks’ advisory board.
Adam Millard-Ball
Professor and DirectorAdam Millard-Ball is professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, and affiliated faculty at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. His research and teaching focus on transportation and climate change, and on how data science can support urban planning research and practice.
D. Taylor Reich
Principal, Ives StreetD. Taylor Reich (they/them) is principal of Ives Street, a research and consulting firm working on the next generation of travel demand modeling through multimodal access-to-destinations measurement. Previously they were the Global Data Science Manager at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and a Fulbright scholar in Amman, Jordan. Taylor is the author of the Atlas of Sustainable City Transport.
Eng. Moses N. Kuiyaki
Transport Planning Mobility and works sector for Nairobi CountyEng. Moses N. Kuiyaki graduated from JKUAT university in 1998 with a degree in civil engineering and has been working in Nairobi City County for over 18 years in the Transport Department of the Mobility and Works sector.
He has been involved in formulation of various plans, policies, programs and projects. These include Nairobi NMT policy, Nairobi City County Transport Act and regulations, Nairobi bus network plan, NMT expansion programs, first and last mile connectivity programs. He, and his team, are currently working on the NMT master plan for Nairobi City.
Christopher Bian
Software Engineer at GoogleChris is a Staff Software Engineer at Google, and was a core member of the team that launched Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) in 2018. Chris’ work focuses on producing useful tools and datasets that enable climate action, including mobility-related topics of transportation emissions, EV charging, active mobility, and other key sustainability efforts. He is most energized when engaging directly with institutions to enable greenhouse gas inventories and climate interventions, as well as collaborating with researchers on insights that can help organizations accelerate their action on climate change.
Eliane Horschutz Nemoto
Sustainable Mobility Expert at ICLEIEliane Horschutz Nemoto is a Sustainable Mobility Expert at ICLEI. She graduated in Environmental Management and holds a doctoral degree in sustainable mobility at Université Paris-Saclay. Previously, she worked as a Researcher on topics addressing the sustainability assessment of automated vehicles, and socio-technical transitions in mobility. At ICLEI she is currently involved in several projects addressing push and pull policies for modal shift, data to empower cities to achieve their mobility goals, and measures for co-design and redistributing urban spaces to foster active and sustainable mobility, green spaces, and quality of life.
Cary Bearn
Senior Manager, Multimodal Design and Programs NACTOCary manages NACTO’s multimodal design and related work, supporting members working on street design, safety programs, shared micromobility, and community engagement. Recently, Cary led the development of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition, which supports planners and engineers in planning, designing, and implementing high-quality, connected, and equitable bikeway networks.
Andrea Rodríguez
Operational Manager of Micromobility, City of Buenos AiresAndrea Rodríguez has a background in civil engineering and has found urban planning and public management as a space where she can understand how cities transform and how urban policy decisions impact everyday life. She has led initiatives related to urban planning and infrastructure design for active mobility. Andrea currently works as Operational Manager of Micromobility at the Ministry of Infrastructure of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, specializing in sustainable mobility, public space, and integrated urban policies.