Themes

Inclusive mobility and transport poverty

Getting about is a great deal harder for some people than for others. If you have no car, live outside a town, or depend on a bus service that keeps being thinned out, you pay for it in time, in money and in opportunities missed: at work, in education, in healthcare and in seeing the people you care about. It is rarely one missing connection. It is an accumulation of small ones, and policy figures tend not to show it.

We set that out. Where do the people live whose access falls short, which destinations are out of reach, and what does that mean day to day? Open data on transport, amenities and households gives the base picture; interviews and questionnaires show how it plays out in practice. The result tells you where a measure would make the most difference, and for whom.

Impact on climate and surroundings

What central government asks of public bodies and not-for-profits lands as some hard questions. The energy transition, cutting emissions and changing behaviour, to name three.

Sustainability matters. But what is actually holding your organisation or your policy back? Missing knowledge, or the behaviour of a resident or an employee? We work out where the room for change really is.

Freight flows and goods vehicles

Most public bodies only half know what moves through their area by rail, water and road. The figures exist (Statistics Netherlands publishes the origin and destination of freight transport, and the vehicle authority RDW knows where vans and lorries are registered), but they sit in separate sources and in different units.

We bring them together into one picture: which flows run through your area, by which mode, and where the fleets behind them are based. It puts hard numbers under conversations that otherwise rest on assumption: about industrial estates, about how deliveries are routed, and about what a measure would mean for which businesses.

Road safety, distraction and human factors

Most dangerous situations on the road come not from a shortage of rules, but from the limits of human attention. A message on a phone, a junction that is hard to read, a warning that arrives a fraction too late: once you understand how perception and distraction work, the behaviour that follows is predictable. That field, human factors, is the heart of this theme.

Wendix has been studying it in the field for years: from smartphone use on a bike and behind the wheel, to how cooperative systems should time their warnings so that a driver actually takes them in. We use whatever the question calls for. Observation on the street, virtual reality to let people feel a risk safely, or image recognition that flags dangerous situations sooner.

What comes out is not a list of recommendations nobody can act on, but a clear view of which change, in behaviour, design or technology, will actually hold.