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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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Have you got 74 minutes to look at what’s behind the curtain? To see what the science has to show us? To look beyond the crap we are fed for the most part in our daily lives? If you have, and like me hadn’t seen it before, watch this documentary if you can – ‘Breaking…
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Juxtaposition. This lunchtime I was hit by two news items – Just Stop Oil targeting Heathrow Airport this morning, and the first big carrier to drop its climate goal. Why not play this game yourself? Find nine news items on a topic that has lots of question marks around it. One can imagine two world…
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Bunkers or bunkum? Once upon a time there was a flight of fancy that aviation only accounted for 1% of UK transport emissions. Then international aviation was included and this increased to 20%. New ‘bottom-up’ research suggests the figure is more like 60%. What the hell is going on? Academic colleagues Zia Wadud, Adeel Muhammad…
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Remember TAP-SWOT in a Box? We are pleased to let you know that a paper on this serious game methodology for socialising Triple Access Planning has now been published. Triple Access Planning (TAP) sits in the ‘decide and provide’ paradigm. It is vision-led, access-focused and accommodates uncertainty. It is contrasted with (some) traditional transport planning…
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I woke this morning at 5am and the first thing I did was read this 12-minute account from Roger Hallam about his trial and conviction. It is harrowing and shocking. In a british court. In 2024. Please spare a few minutes to read it. “I outlined four characteristics of the effects of emitting greenhouse gases…
What the hell is going on? 