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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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Are you an egalitarian, hierarchist, individualist or fatalist? And which of these worldviews do we need to save humanity from itself in the face of a climate emergency? Earlier this year, I had the privilege of being the external examiner for Frank Chuang‘s PhD at UCL. His thesis is titled “Exploring the Role of Worldviews in…
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Be an upstander not a bystander. This is a powerful phrase I was introduced to last year. The challenges we face in society today are enormous – multiple wicked problems. So how can each of us do anything that makes a difference? It is easy to be daunted by that question, but I think there…
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I thought in the future we might be living in the Matrix. Now I realise many have been all along. In 1999 one of the most amazing films ever (in my book) was released, ‘The Matrix’. It was written by the Wachowskis, two sisters who are trans women. That alone is probably enough to get…
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[Long Read] On Wednesday 20 July 2022 I travelled to an event to discuss roads and future investment in them. I was one of the invited speakers. Luckily I was late preparing my slides and only finished the day before. The news coverage for the preceding 48 hours more or less di`d the job of…
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Are you feeling hot? This is 2022. Aren’t you wondering what it might feel like in five years time, in ten years time? On my Twitter feed at the moment are two abiding symbols – the sun and clown icons. Simultaneously soaring temperatures seem everywhere and politics has entered the twilight zone. I confess that…
What the hell is going on? 