Martijn Akkerman Email & Phone Number

Apeldoorn, Ge, Nl

Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands

I'm an experienced planner and designer of bicycle infrastructure specialised in regional high quality bicycle routes. I've worked in amongst others the Netherlands, UK, Singapore, Colombia, Peru, Latvia, Indonesia, Belgium. I'm at my best when the projects combine multilevel stakeholder engagement and conceptual design. I'm a frequent speaker at conferences such as Velo-City.Within the Sustainable Urban Mobility team working mostly for developers on sustainable mobility concepts for… Show more I'm an experienced planner and designer of bicycle infrastructure specialised in regional high quality bicycle routes. I've worked in amongst others the Netherlands, UK, Singapore, Colombia, Peru, Latvia, Indonesia, Belgium. I'm at my best when the projects combine multilevel stakeholder engagement and conceptual design. I'm a frequent speaker at conferences such as Velo-City.Within the Sustainable Urban Mobility team working mostly for developers on sustainable mobility concepts for green or brownfield developments. These include modal split strategies often focussed on positioning active modes over motorised transport, parking concepts / hub vision incl justification for using different parkingnorms then the CROW norms. In the past I've lead a Traffic Survey/Data collection team and initiated our companies expertise group on Parking of cars (design of parking garages, Parkeerbalans studies, parking strategies) During my career I've held several team lead positions. Show less

London Area, United Kingdom

Witteveen+Bos UK Ltd. is the UK entity of the Dutch Engineering Consultancy Witteveen+Bos. In the UK market we focus amongst others on Energy Transition, Waste2Energy, Innovative construction and Active Travel. We work close together with our group colleagues. We are part of the BEIS Zoning Technical Consultant framework and provide Heat network strategies for Local Authorities. In recent years we worked on Active Travel infrastructure planning&design, Industrial Biogas production from Waste… Show more Witteveen+Bos UK Ltd. is the UK entity of the Dutch Engineering Consultancy Witteveen+Bos. In the UK market we focus amongst others on Energy Transition, Waste2Energy, Innovative construction and Active Travel. We work close together with our group colleagues. We are part of the BEIS Zoning Technical Consultant framework and provide Heat network strategies for Local Authorities. In recent years we worked on Active Travel infrastructure planning&design, Industrial Biogas production from Waste Water and masterplans for residential developments in flood risk areas. Show less

Riga, Latvia

Leading our Riga office which at that time focussed on Ports, road&rail infrastructure and Urban Mobility.

Seconded by Witteveen+Bos for 2-3 days per week. In this position responsible for implementation of Wait time predictors for cyclists at adaptive traffic light controllers, evaluation of a Innovative Green Wave strategy with personal speed advice and reduction of time losses of trams at traffic light controllers.