The transport sector faces the challenge of compound change. Not only are there mounting signs of a new era of mobility unfolding as a rapidly maturing digital age has collided with the motor age, but we are discovering that our forecast-led paradigm of transport planning needs to evolve in response to a changing world.
In 2016, 200 transport professionals from CIHT engaged in exploring this challenge. They voiced strong support for a new approach to planning for the future of mobility – moving away from the regime compliant approach that culminates in predict and provide and towards a regime testing approach that culminates in decide and provide.
There has been growing recognition of the need to embrace deep uncertainty over the future in tandem with strategic planning intended to shape that future. This helps to ensure policymaking and investment decisions are more robust.
The 2019 Learned Society Lecture is an opportunity to hear about the challenges and opportunities of this new approach to planning that is now being developed and applied. Its uncomfortable territory but as the French philosopher Voltaire reportedly said over 200 years ago, “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one”. We need to engage with this challenge or we risk running into problems.
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Our thanks are extended to our sponsor, Mott MacDonald.
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Our thanks are extended to CIHT Shared Learning Partner, ACO, who will be filming the lecture.
Glenn is the Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol in the UK where he was previously Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the Faculty of Environment and Technology and the founding Director of the Centre for Transport & Society. He is seconded for half his time to Mott MacDonald from UWE Bristol, creating a bridge between academia and practice.
Glenn is the Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol in the UK where he was previously Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the Faculty of Environment and Technology and the founding Director of the Centre for Transport & Society. He is seconded for half his time to Mott MacDonald from UWE Bristol, creating a bridge between academia and practice.
Throughout his research career of over 25 years he has focused upon the role of new technologies in supporting and influencing travel behaviour both directly and through shaping lifestyles and social practices. A former secondee to the UK Department for Transport and more recently to the New Zealand Ministry of Transport, Glenn has led major studies into traveller information systems, teleworking, virtual mobility, travel time use, user innovation, road pricing, public and business attitudes to transport and future mobility. He is now actively engaged in examining the future prospects for technological innovations including Connected Autonomous Vehicles and Mobility as a Service. He has been involved in a number of strategic futures initiatives and recent and ongoing engagements include helping transport authorities address future uncertainty in their planning, policymaking and investment; and examining the need for transport planning practice to evolve. Glenn is a Trustee of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation and of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund. He is also a member of the UK Department for Transport’s Joint Analysis Development Panel.
Stephen Cragg is a Senior Transport Planner at Transport Scotland. He has worked in Transport Planning and Modelling for over 20 years and has introduced Scenario Planning to improve planning for the future of mobility in the on-going update of Scotland’s National Transport Strategy.
Stephen Cragg is a Senior Transport Planner at Transport Scotland. He has worked in Transport Planning and Modelling for over 20 years and has introduced Scenario Planning to improve planning for the future of mobility in the on-going update of Scotland’s National Transport Strategy.
Lynn is a chartered town planner and transport planner. She has spent thirty years in the industry working for the public sector in and around the north west and south east of England and in the private sector, including six years at TRL where she worked in the field of sustainable transport research. She has always been interested in integrating the different sectors of the industry and their practices and established the Virtual Centre for Transport and Psychology.
Lynn is a chartered town planner and transport planner. She has spent thirty years in the industry working for the public sector in and around the north west and south east of England and in the private sector, including six years at TRL where she worked in the field of sustainable transport research. She has always been interested in integrating the different sectors of the industry and their practices and established the Virtual Centre for Transport and Psychology.
In 2018 she set up BasfordPowers, a boutique land use and transport planning consultancy where her projects include supporting the implementation of Silvertown Tunnel with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, developing the transport strategy for Kingswood; a strategic land allocation in West Sussex of 4,000 homes and 4,000 jobs. She continues to advise on Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects and the Development Consent Order process. She is on the Board of Trustees for CIHT and is the lead for CIHT FUTURES.
Prior to joining the University of Greenwich, Deborah was the Project Director for the Highways Central team with the Mott MacDonald group, managing a team working on a wide range of projects for clients across London and the south east of England. Before that, Deborah was Strategy and Service Manager at InterRoute, a non-incorporated joint venture between Mott MacDonald and Balfour Beatty.
Prior to joining the University of Greenwich, Deborah was the Project Director for the Highways Central team with the Mott MacDonald group, managing a team working on a wide range of projects for clients across London and the south east of England. Before that, Deborah was Strategy and Service Manager at InterRoute, a non-incorporated joint venture between Mott MacDonald and Balfour Beatty.
A Chartered Engineer with over 25 years' experience of highways design, safety engineering, team leadership and project management, she has experience of managing large design teams both in the public and private sectors and working on motorways, trunk roads and local authority roads. Deborah also has experience in bid management and mobilisation for multi-million pound strategic alliance and joint venture operations. She is a contributing editor to various CIHT publications, and a professional reviewer for both Chartered and Incorporated Engineers.
Deborah’s first degree is in Civil Engineering and her Masters is in Road Safety Engineering. She gained her PGCertHE in 2013 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was awarded Honorary Membership of the Society of Road Safety Auditors in 2011.
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