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By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • Vision-led strategic planning for an uncertain world – FUTURES now available

    Vision-led strategic planning for an uncertain world – FUTURES now available

    http://www.mottmac.com/futures The challenge Mainstream transport planning has been and continues to be in the ‘forecast-led paradigm’. Yet we are confronted by deep uncertainty about the future as we bear witness to significant behaviour change and technological innovation – brought about in part by the collision and merging of the digital age with the motor age. Read more

  • COP28 or COPOUT28? Let’s ask Robin Lyons

    COP28 or COPOUT28? Let’s ask Robin Lyons

    COP28 or COPOUT28? On the day the thrashed-out result emerged, I have been proudly attending the graduation ceremony of my son Robin Lyons. Alongside running Ergon Theatre (one of the UK’s leading climate theatre companies) and his own carbon literacy training company ‘Climate Leadership Training’ (https://www.climateleadershiptraining.co.uk/), Robin has studied full-time for his Masters in Environmental Governance at the Read more

  • The Emerald Isle

    The Emerald Isle

    Day 1 – what a start. We’ve got this Ireland. We’ve got this Northern Ireland. We’ve got this. 20 June was the first full day of my presidency for the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT). It couldn’t have been better. The ferry from Hollyhead to Dublin. Faultless. Glenn Hingerty – luckily two Glenns Read more

  • ‘He lied and lied’ – an attack on climate policy?

    ‘He lied and lied’ – an attack on climate policy?

    “He lied and lied”. This is a bold headline to level at a sitting prime minister. A reminder of the Seven Principles of Public Life: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, Leadership. They’re important aren’t they? A bedrock upon which we should expect politics of any colour to be founded? Of course if you don’t Read more

  • I can’t be that important as I didn’t fly by private jet to speak at the ATRF conference

    I can’t be that important as I didn’t fly by private jet to speak at the ATRF conference

    I can’t be that important as I didn’t fly by private jet to the Australiasian Transport Research Forum to talk on climate action. A privilege to deliver one of the keynotes today at the ATRF in Perth on the day that COP28 gets underway with three UK elites arriving to it separately in private jets Read more

  • EVERYONE EVERYWHERE – Why inclusion is the key to effective transport

    EVERYONE EVERYWHERE – Why inclusion is the key to effective transport

    Hey you – yes, you there. Have you never experienced feeling you weren’t included? No? Then you’re in the minority. I remember several years ago spending an afternoon on our university campus in a wheelchair. The purpose was to give me a taste of the lived experience of being disabled. I was asked to do Read more