Three webinars about what impact COVID has had on transport and what challenges and opportunities it has created and how we deal with these.
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Three webinars about what impact COVID has had on transport and what challenges and opportunities it has created and how we deal with these.
National and local governments around the world have tried to use lockdowns to implement active travel measures such as new cycle lanes, car-free streets and more. These have often lead to heated discussions about how or to whom public space is allocated.
While lockdowns and social distancing requirements gave hope of an increase in sustainable active travel modes it simultaneously brought rise to fears of the opposite, a substantial increase in personal vehicle use at the expense of public transport. Public transport is seen as a key measure in the path to 'net-zero' for transport.
In this webinar series we ask what awaits for transport on the other side of COVID, what opportunities and challenges has COVID brought with it and what is the status of the active travel measures put in place.
These key questions about the impact of COVID will be discussed at three lunchtime webinars - all for the price of one.
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How has central government responded to the COVID crisis' impact on the transport system and what challenges do they see for transport going forward. We will hear about plans for public transport and active travel measures and how engaging with stakeholders including the public has been important in responding to the impacts from COVID.
Speakers:
In this webinar with Professor Nick Tyler CBE we discuss the challenging topic of how we think about what the future of transport might hold and challenge whether the transport sector is doing enough in the area of defining what we want to achieve.
We will also hear about PEARL, a laboratory being built by UCL in London, with the vision of creating a world where everyone can achieve a better quality of life. Join this webinar to hear how that might happen and engage in the discussion with Professor Nick Tyler and CIHT Head of Policy, Justin Ward.
Together with CIHT's London Regional Committee we have set up this panel discussion where we will hear from those who have been working with the planning and implementation of active travel measures in London during COVID. We will hear about the emergency response to London’s coronavirus challenge by TfL and boroughs, the experience of delivery and lessons learned.
This has been and continues to be a unique set of circumstances to respond to and to deliver in. However, it’s not clear that similar circumstances won’t occur again in the future. Watch this webinar to learn some lessons for next time.
Chaired by Spencer Palmer, chair of CIHT's Network Management Panel and Director of Transport and Mobility at London Councils.
These webinars are for anyone interested in transport planning and governance, network management and how and what we need to consider when we think about the future of transport.
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I’ve worked for Transport Scotland for ten years, following 18 years working in the consultancy sector as a transport planner. I am responsible for the development of the new National Transport Strategy and setting the investment priorities for transport across Scotland through the second Strategic Transport Projects Review.
I provide strategic transport planning advice to Scottish Ministers
and assist Local Authorities in planning for the future.
My remit also includes providing analysis and research to support strategy and policy development which includes maintaining and publishing publication transport statistics, transport demand forecasting, transport appraisal guidance as well as transport research. Areas of responsibility include the Transport Bill, future mobility, climate change and transport’s contribution to inclusive economic growth. My team also looks after the statutory and institutional frameworks for transport including the Regional Transport Partnerships and Scottish Roadworks Commissioner. I am a graduate of the University of Strathclyde and a Chartered Civil Engineer.
Daisy Narayanan is the Director of Urbanism for Sustrans, where her role involves interweaving policy, public realm design and a broad integration of key place principles to help create liveable towns and cities.
Drawing on her previous experience working as an architect and urban designer in India, Singapore, England and Scotland, Daisy believes passionately in the importance of creating places for people: places that reflect and complement the communities that live in them.
Daisy brings her knowledge and expertise to a number of roles including as Board Member of Architecture & Design Scotland, member of the Edinburgh Climate Commission, and member of the Scottish Transport Awards judging panel. She led the Edinburgh City Centre Transformation Programme in 2018, where she took forward Edinburgh’s aspirations to enhance the city centre as a world class place to live, work and visit.
Paul White is the Director of CPT Scotland, the trade association for the bus and coach industries. Paul is a long-standing advocate for public transport, representing bus and coach interests across the UK and to the European institutions. Paul is a non-Councillor Board member of SEStrans and a past Chair of the Scottish Transport Studies Group.
Nick Tyler's teaching contribution is driven by a new concept about what engineering is and how this should be enacted in the future. Engineering is to serve the world's population with the aim of aking the world a better place. This view of engineering as a public service requires that future engineers understand in the most complete way what problems the world's population is facing and what the desired outcomes should be from solving these challenges.
Spencer has over 28 years of experience working as a transport professional in local and central government. He has worked for several London authorities and prior to joining London Councils, where he today works as Director for Transport & Mobility, in September 2013 he was Head of Highway Operations at Kent County Council.
Spencer’s current role at London Councils involves policy development and the provision of guidance and advice to the London Boroughs on a range of traffic, transport and parking matters. He is also responsible for delivering London-wide services and projects such as the Freedom Pass concessionary travel scheme, the London Lorry Control Scheme, Taxicard, London Tribunals and the Go Ultra Low City Scheme, which aims to significantly increase the number of electric vehicle charge points across the Capital.
Sam has worked at a senior level at TfL for 5 years, largely working with boroughs to deliver. Prior to that he worked at a London borough for 25 years, with responsibility for a range of strategic and operational services – traffic and transport, engineering, environment services (waste and recycling, street cleaning, street markets etc), sustainability and air quality, and parking services. This included borough lead for Olympics-related preparation and delivery. The borough won Transport Borough of the year four times.
Nick is overseeing parking, roads, structures and major projects across two boroughs with a combined population of 500,000 people. Nick has previously worked for Ealing and Tower Hamlets Councils as well as for Docklands Light Railway overseeing the successful delivery of a number of projects including the Docklands Light Railway Extension to Woolwich Arsenal. In Nick’s current role he is overseeing a number of innovative and transformation projects delivered including safety detection systems fitted to all fleet, thermal road repair for resurfacing schemes, a new super cycle hub at Richmond Town Centre and major town centre and high street transformations such as the recent summer pilot of high street walking and cycling prioritisation.
Mark is an experienced Local Government professional to Assistant Director level, now Director of Fern Consulting Services providing support to clients on strategic transport planning; regeneration & placemaking; environmental strategy (including climate emergency and air quality action plan development); traffic and parking policy and; supporting regional networks and public sector staff capacity building/mentoring. Mark is a Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTPP), board member of the Transport Planning Society, Vice President of the Local Government Technical Advisors Group and a Future London Leaders graduate, with a wider interest in effective altruism and charity governance.
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