Palm Beach County (Florida, USA), home to 1.5 million residents today, is projected to grow to nearly 1.9 million people by 2050. This rapid expansion brings tremendous opportunity, but also intensifies societal challenges such as mobility. With a high dependency on cars, limited public transportation options, and a fragmented cycling network, the county faces mounting congestion on key corridors. The region now stands at a pivotal moment where strategic, multimodal planning is essential.
Against this backdrop, the ThinkBike Workshop, facilitated by the Dutch Cycling Embassy, brought together planners, engineers, community leaders, and private‑sector professionals to reimagine what safer, more attractive, and more connected streets could look like. Participants redesigned corridors by putting roads on a diet, adding cycling infrastructure, and envisioning new public transport connections, creating a shared vision of a more balanced mobility system.
These preliminary design concepts formed the foundation for the Impact Implementation Course, hosted by Movares and Scenexus. Here, participants explored how local street‑level interventions ripple across the wider region. Using a predictive digital twin of Palm Beach County, they tested exploratory “what‑if” scenarios to understand the broader impacts of redesigning streets combined with new housing and job developments on mobility and the overall network performance.
Four interdisciplinary groups examined different strategies, each focused on improving cycling infrastructure, reducing vehicle delay, enhancing access to jobs and services, and supporting sustainable growth.
This demonstrated that transforming mobility requires both visionary design and evidence‑based implementation. With the right tools and collaborative approach, Palm Beach County can turn its growth into an opportunity to build a future where safe, multimodal mobility is the norm rather than the exception.
Pictures from the Impact Implementation course hosted by Movares and Scenexus.