Arnd Bätzner

Arnd Bätzner provides government advisory on the alignment of multi-modal transit systems with the built environment and strategic land use planning. Focus areas include physical and data integration of autonomous and demand-responsive transport with high-capacity modes, designs of passenger intermodal facilities and bus electrification strategies. Holding a diploma as concert pianist from Geneva Conservatory, a master in physics and a major in rail engineering from ETH Zurich, Arnd is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St.Gallen’s Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance: His academic research focuses on urban elevated walkability enhancers such as skybridges, cable cars and people movers and their effects on spatial development.
Arnd has been directing projects in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas for both the public and private sector, including customers as diverse as the Ministries of Transport and Public Works of France, Luxembourg and Cambodia, UNDP, NJ Transit Corp., the Swiss Federal Roads Office, global architecture firms, rail, bus, shared mobility and cable transport OEMs, operators and policymakers.
From 2011 to 2023, Arnd was a board of directors member of Switzerland’s nationwide Mobility Car Sharing system, in charge of market foresight. Arnd is co-chairing the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport’s strategic advisory board on research, technology and innovation. He chaired the World Public Transport Association UITP’s committee for dynamically charging electric buses and is currently heading its global knowledge and best practices working group. Arnd serves as an international member of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's Transportation Research Board’s committees on Transit Facilities and Infrastructure and emeritus member of the Rail Transit Systems and Emerging and Innovative Public Transportation Technologies committees, reappointed under several administrations.