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By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • The motivations and meaning behind climate action

    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 of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion. We… Read more

  • Looking to make sense of the hype, substance and prospects of Mobility as a Service?

    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 the areas of (future) mobility… Read more

  • Cartoons get to the heart of the insanity of real life

    Cartoons get to the heart of the insanity of real life

    Cartoons are powerful. They cut through faff and verbosity and get to the point. And they generally amuse us because they resonate so strongly with the insanity of real life. Tim Gent suggested yesterday that bringing over an old thread from Twitter I generated back in July 2021 might be worth doing. I was reluctant to… Read more

  • As we face the greatest fight of our professional lives we need transport planners with super powers

    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 YouTube. 1,200 people had registered… Read more

  • Seeing beyond white male privilege in the transport sector – my submission to the Transport Committee

    Seeing beyond white male privilege in the transport sector – my submission to the Transport Committee

    Seeing beyond white male privilege in the transport sector – my submission to the Transport Committee. Shaping the future of transport is not just about emerging technologies. Judgements are everywhere: judgements about what to invest in; judgements in analysis that supports judgements about what to invest in; judgements about who should judge what to invest… Read more

  • There will be no driverless cars on a dead planet

    There will be no driverless cars on a dead planet

    Anthropomorphism. One of the biggest words in my vocabulary – one I added right near the beginning of my personal journey deeper and deeper into the world of future mobility. I was delighted when Adam Hill, the Editor of ITS International Magazine asked me this summer whether I would share my thoughts on future mobility in a written… Read more