-
The Driverless Cars Emulsion – are you ready to come together?
Driverless cars – it can be a divisive topic. Some people love them. Some people hate them. The lovers and the haters are like oil and water in my experience. They just don’t come together well – they don’t like mixing. Yet oil and water can be helped to mix by adding an emulsifier. Hence Read more
-
Planning for connected autonomous vehicles
There is a burgeoning volume of literature on autonomous vehicles. We wanted to cut to the chase and identify the most important issues for our clients (especially those in the public sector) to be aware of and addressing. We have produced a crowd-sourced report that draws upon our thinking across Mott MacDonald globally which we Read more
-
The importance of user perspective in the evolution of Mobility as a Service
Download our new paper. See a video of the paper being presented. A collaboration between Mott MacDonald and UWE Bristol‘s Centre for Transport & Society. At the end of 2018 the UK Parliament’s House of Commons Transport Committee published the report on its inquiry into Mobility as a Service (MaaS). It considers findings and conclusions concerning MaaS in practice and issues of governance and Read more
-
Half the world’s population has a chance to go to the ballot box this year. The problem is that our brains are busy with other things so need a few shortcuts to help decide whether and how to vote. In the UK we go to the ballot box on 4 July. We have a gruelling…
-
Here’s my Tuesday morning challenge to you – please point me to a video on YouTube that is under four minutes long that offers a compelling sense of optimism about climate change. Mainstream media has been so very good at balancing (finding a person on either side of an issue to offer contrary views to…
-
Hey you – yes, you there. Have you never experienced feeling you weren’t included? No? Then you’re in the minority. I remember several years ago spending an afternoon on our university campus in a wheelchair. The purpose was to give me a taste of the lived experience of being disabled. I was asked to do…
-
What times we live in – a new report on ‘Protecting our Democracy from Coercion’. The matter of what democracy is, what state it is in and how it might be different is complex. I’m no expert. But I’m curious as to whether or not this is a politically neutral report. The Foreword says “Noble…
What the hell is going on? 