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Place your bets now please – do we need road traffic reduction?
Shouldn’t a government with a legally binding commitment to decarbonise commit to road traffic reduction? It seems England is special. Scotland, Wales and Ireland all have targets set by their national governments to reduce car driven miles. England doesn’t. Yesterday the RAC Foundation published an important piece of work that set the following exam question: Is it… Read more
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Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me…. six triple access futures, and a mental model in a pear tree. Daniela Paddeu and I are pleased to share our new paper (free to access) which sets out how systems thinking can be used to make sense of the Triple Access System we… Read more
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In-group and out-group thinking to interpret white male privilege
A good friend of mine pointed me to social identity theory. In a nutshell if you belong to the in-group you begin to favour it and become hostile toward the out-group and feel superior to the out-group. Self-esteem and status increase due to belonging to the ‘superior’ in-group. This helps explain prejudice against out-groups (thanks… Read more
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The Pentagram of Influence
What a devilishly wicked problem getting the world mobilised on climate action is. So devilish that I think we are at the mercy of an inverted pentagram of influence that holds everthing in tension rather than enabling all factions to pull together to create concerted climate action of the intensity required. In the pentagram five… Read more
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10,000 transport professionals converging on Washington – fly me to the moon
The Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board takes place in person in Washington DC, starting today. Upwards of 10,000 transportation professionals will convene there. I should say I have attended it in the past myself though the last time I flew is now 1044 days ago. Given the unrelenting news about worsening climate change… Read more
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Emissions from aviation – bunker or bunkum?
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… Read more
What the hell is going on? 