{"id":596909,"date":"2025-11-27T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596909\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:59:46","slug":"dutch-transport-ministry-visit-to-manchester-urban-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596909\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Transport Ministry visit to Manchester Urban Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a class=\"pp_cb_imagegallery_7586204\" data-sharepath=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/about\/news\/asset\/86726675-3911-46a4-892e-3cca19932a1d\/visitorsstandingonbridgeatgreenfieldtrainstation\" data-uuid=\"86726675-3911-46a4-892e-3cca19932a1d\" data-sourcepath=\"https:\/\/content.presspage.com\/uploads\/1369\/86726675-3911-46a4-892e-3cca19932a1d\/visitorsstandingonbridgeatgreenfieldtrainstation.jpg?94755\" data-uploadid=\"1801547\" data-filename=\"visitorsstandingonbridgeatgreenfieldtrainstation.jpg\" data-title=\"Visitors standing on bridge at Greenfield train station\" data-description=\"\" data-copyright=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-attr-hash=\"6d9f18f10ab13b3e49b8acfe45dfa0976cb15853\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1920_visitorsstandingonbridgeatgreenfieldtrainstation.jpg\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 40%;\" class=\"pp-inline-image pp-right pp-ml20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1920_visitorsstandingonbridgeatgreenfieldtrainstation.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors standing on bridge at Greenfield train station\" title=\"Visitors standing on bridge at Greenfield train station\"\/>   &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                Visitors standing on bridge at Greenfield train station&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>          &#13;<br \/>\n         <\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>Manchester Urban Institute was pleased to host 11 delegates from the Dutch Ministry of Transport for a study visit to the city in October.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Lucas, Director of MUI and MUI colleagues organised a workshop session on Mapping tools for assessing accessibility and transport-related social exclusion (TRSE), which was also attended by partners from the Department for Transport, Transport for the North and Transport for Greater Manchester and the University of Leeds. The workshop facilitated some very useful exchanges on the best ways to measure TRSE at different socio-spatial scales. It also generated some useful ideas about how to promote projects to address TRSE on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>MUI\u2019s Dutch visitors went on study visits to two communities that are at high risk of TRSE, organised by MUI researcher, Joanna Barrow. The idea was to allow them to experience first-hand the problems local people face when travelling in and around Greater Manchester. One of the places they visited is Sholver in Oldham, travelling there on the metro and back on the bus, where they met with some of our community partners to talk about their travel needs and concerns. On returning to the University one of our Dutch visitors observed:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Visitors standing on bridge at Greenfield train station&#13; &#13; Manchester Urban Institute was pleased to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,187607,16,15,29191],"class_list":{"0":"post-596909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-urban-institute","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-university-of-manchester"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115621081308380372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}