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By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • Transport planning history in the making

    Transport planning history in the making

    It was my great honour to be part of transport planning history yesterday. The first ever cohort of transport planning degree apprentices graduated from Aston University after their five-year journey on a course that Lucy Rackliff had the vision to establish back in 2019. Huge congratulations to the graduates: Andrew Carter MCIHT EngTech, Thomas Emery,… Read more

  • Engaging citizens in exploring the future of transport

    Engaging citizens in exploring the future of transport

    30 citizens of Bristol have a taste of FUTURES – a six stage vision-led approach to strategic planning for an uncertain world (which applies Triple Access Planning to how to shape the future using Decide and Provide). Within the project ‘Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures‘, Mott MacDonald has been helping us explore with academics and practitioners… Read more

  • I asked Chat-GPT to write me a poem about road investment

    I asked Chat-GPT to write me a poem about road investment

    Is Artificial Intellgence influenced by past data? Is this going to shape our future? I asked Chat GPT to “Write me a poem about road investment”. This is what it said: The road stretches out before us,A ribbon of asphalt and dust.A path to adventure, a gateway to growth,A vital investment, worth its weight in… Read more