Category: Sustainable Transport
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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…
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Looking to make sense of the hype, substance and prospects of Mobility as a Service?
Everything you need to know? A new Special Issue of one of the leading international transport journals ‘Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice’ has just been published on the topic of Developments in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and Intelligent Mobility. This is a valuable collection of papers that critically examines one of…
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Mobility dynamics: trend reversal or retracement?
“Changing mobility” – it was Phil Goodwin some years ago who highlighted the double meaning of ‘changing’ in a phrase like this (one of many insights from Phil that have stuck with me). It can be an adjective (mobility is changing) or a verb (mobility can be changed). The fact…
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10 reasons for the walking renaissance
10 reasons for the walking renaissance Following some great input from colleagues on Linkedin to my article (https://lnkd.in/e7h_SZ9), I’ve summarised below 10 possible contributing explanations for the 31% increase in walking trip rate in England (for trips under one mile) between 2015 and 2018 as indicated by National Travel Survey…
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Big changes are afoot – Walking is up by 31% in 3 years!
As you may know, I am a big fan of ‘Walking as a Service’ (WaaS). Thanks to Silicon Valley harnessing the power of geography in the form of Google Maps Navigation, three key questions that could stand in the way of choosing to walk can now be answered: How do…
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5 thoughts for the future of transport planning
My colleague Paul Hammond asked me to come up with five thoughts for the future of transport planning as part of a gathering this weekend of c100 bright minds from within Mott MacDonald’s growing population of transport planners. I thought I’d share them on Linkedin and see what other people’s…
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Future of Mobility – Urban Strategy – are we heading in the right direction?
So its out! Amid the political turmoil in Westminster, we have a Government document setting out its strategy for the future of urban mobility. Having contributed my views as part of the Mott MacDonald submission to the call for evidence and views on the Future of Mobility last summer, I was curious to see what the…
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From traffic-flow theory to people-flow theory
From traffic-flow theory to people-flow theory. This is what happens when a transport professor has insomnia! Thoughts welcome – I’ve posted this while still sleep-deprived!! This is my musing regarding how highways dominated by cars compares with highways dominated by buses. If speed were a crude proxy for convenience then…
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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…
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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…
What the hell is going on? 