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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
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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
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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
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No disrespect to tea ladies, but have you been mistaken for one? Our brains can be very quick to judge and form impressions. When you go into a meeting or interview, how conscious are you of being wrongly judged or of being too quick to judge others? Search online for ‘mistaken for the tea lady’.…
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Imagine trying to educate children on helping create a better world. Would you use doublespeak to do so? Let’s consider an example. Good morning class. We’re going to be talking today about diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s a phrase that has three parts. Let’s look at each one shall we? Diversity is about is all…
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In a remarkable turn of events, Mother Nature has issued a Consecutive Disorder in which she has identified a list of words that now appear to be prohibited from being used. The courts are scrambling to establish whether or not this is legally enforcible with many businesses and politicians nonplussed and angry at what this…
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Making difference invisible seems to be an enduring feature of modern society, as does making sure privilege is protected. I remember the posts I’ve put on LinkedIn that get unusually high traction. In March 2021 I posted (https://lnkd.in/edE8p7HR) while I was half-way through reading ‘Invisible Women’: “Half the population hidden in plain sight. Essential reading…
What the hell is going on? 