India, Oct. 28 -- Not many in Mumbai would equate urban mobility with "livability". And yet this thought-provoking perspective comes from a 49-year-old Dutchman, an expert on urban mobility in cities around the world.

Geert Kloppenburg, who also shoots documentaries on the subject, was on a ten-day visit to Mumbai recently, when he recorded 60 hours of video footage on how Mumbai moves. He was here to meet cycle blogger, Vijay Malhotra, who had travelled to Kloppenburg's home city, Haarlem in the Netherlands, to create a documentary on the cycling capital of the world.

Kloppenburg has worked with governments, municipalities and mobility companies in the Netherlands as well as internationally, including in cities like Los Angeles, New Yo...