Category: Fireside Chats
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The motivations and meaning behind climate action
If you are truly prepared to open your mind and read the following account with care, attention and reflection, I believe it will pull at your heart strings and wrench at your soul. You will come to understand why ‘love and gratitude’ and ‘love and rage’ sit at the heart…
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Intergenerational insights on the future of transport
On 8 June 2023 the 16th event in the PTRC Fireside Chat series took place. You can watch it here. You can download the writeup below. What follows are 16 intergenerational insights on the future of transport & the transport profession: 💡 Gloria Steinem said “We need to remember across…
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The only way is ethics – making your way in your career and being true to yourself
Are you in a good place in your career? Have you found a role and team that optimise you, that allow you to be your authentic self and boost your wellbeing? Our careers are, typically, long journeys with lots of twists and turns. They are a big part of our…
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All models are wrong…especially after a pandemic
Nearly 300 people gathered together for the seventh PTRC Fireside Chat on 3 December 2020. With the system shock of the pandemic further exacerbating a state of flux in trends affecting transport demand, how on earth is the world of transport modelling coping? This was an opportunity to find out, and to…
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As we face the greatest fight of our professional lives we need transport planners with super powers
On Tuesday 14 April I spoke with Michelle Wood and Brogan McPherson from PTRC for the first time about an event – a ‘fireside chat’ – they were thinking of running looking at COVID-19 and transport and wanted me to Chair. Nine days later we ran a panel discussion operating on Zoom and live streaming to…