Overview

The world is changing and the status quo is being challenged in multiple dimensions. With autonomous vehicles, smart highways, electric power-trains, shared mobility and aerial transit coming over the horizon at the touch of an app, 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.

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.

This Seminar from the CIHT Dubai Group will outline FUTURES, show how it differs from conventional forms of transport planning, and demonstrate how the technique can be applied to Dubai & the region.

About the Speaker

Edward Forrester, Future Mobility Lead at 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). He is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Liverpool.

Further information and registration

Attendance at this Seminar is free to all, but registration is mandatory. In the event of overbooking, preference will be given to CIHT Members.

For further information, e-mail us at dubaigroup@ciht.org.uk