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By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • Decarbonising transport – buckle up!

    Decarbonising transport – buckle up!

    Here’s your progressively zoomed-in May 2024 update on decarbonisation: globally as a whole, globally for transport, globally for direct emissions from transport, for direct emissions from transport in the UK and for car driving and flying. The story goes like this in brief: We need to reduce emissions globally by 45% compared to 2010 levels… Read more

  • Planning for connected autonomous vehicles

    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

  • Manel alert! We must keep calling out all-male panels

    Manel alert! We must keep calling out all-male panels

    Manels alert! We don’t want to hear from too many women do we? Not when there are so many men to choose from in the transport sector? The image below reflects the proportion of women to men on a series of transport/mobility sessions at a forthcoming conference – 20/80. I was due to speak on… Read more

  • A psalm by Rosie Lyons (aged 11)

    A psalm by Rosie Lyons (aged 11)

    ‘A call for change’– a psalm by Rosie Lyons God, why oh why is the world warming up? Why are there bike paths but there are no bikes? Lord, please I need your help. Is it true that our oceans are filled with plastic? I need your guidance. Show people there is a more sustainable… Read more

  • At work in the ruins

    At work in the ruins

    I feel a low level sense of grief for the naivety & ignorance I have left behind – when I was inside the Matrix, consuming as if magic put the shiny fresh things in the shops, consuming the trivia & the air-brushed media, believing that grown ups existed whose job it was to make everything… Read more

  • 666 ppm – the Number of the Beast – it is a human number 🤘

    666 ppm – the Number of the Beast – it is a human number 🤘

    666 parts per million of CO2. Woe to you oh earth and sea. In 1982 when I was 13 or 14 I bought ‘The Number of The Beast’ as a red vinyl single. Isn’t it beautiful? Blood red. It was my first gig when I was 13 – the Number of the Beast Tour. Front… Read more