This online seminar from the CIHT Dubai Group will outline FUTURES, show how it differs from conventional transport planning, and demonstrate how the technique can be applied to Dubai.
Time advertised is GST (Gulf Standard Time). For UK members this event will start at 14:00.
Even before COVID-19, the world of mobility was changing, and the status quo being challenged in multiple dimensions. With autonomous vehicles, smart highways, electric power-trains, shared mobility and aerial transit coming over the horizon, we face the imminent transformation of society as the digital age collides with, and disrupts, the motor age.
What will Dubai look like in the next fifty years and how will we live, work and travel? Planning for the future by looking in the rear-view mirror is no longer viable in face of the opportunities, threats and uncertainties ahead. There is an urgent need for a new planning approach which is vision-led and negotiates uncertainty to achieve more resilient decision making. This approach is called FUTURES.
The current COVID-19 pandemic, and associated economic and social crisis, will if anything accelerate disruptive trends and new mobility solutions and point towards a “new normal” that will be very different from went before.
FUTURES (Future Uncertainty Toolkit for Understanding and Responding to an Evolving Society) helps transport planners consider the full range of mobility options ahead and to develop a resilient future- proofed strategy to get there. It is based on scenario planning, stories describing alternative paths through which the future might develop, and which can be used flexibly to test new trend, policies, technologies and business models. The scenarios inform a series of tools and techniques which explore change drivers, unpack associated opportunities and build potential solutions.
Edward Forrester is the Future Mobility Lead for Mott MacDonald in Dubai. A Chartered Civil Engineer, he is passionate about future mobility and sustainable transport, and has worked extensively with clients in the public and private sectors in such fields as connected and autonomous vehicles, low-carbon and net zero transport, and Next-Generation ITS.
Ed is leading the roll-out of FUTURES in the UAE, an approach developed with the UK’s University of the West of England (UWE).
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