All Outputs (235)

Visioning for transport practitioners (2025)
Journal Article

With increasing transport sector interest in vision-led rather than forecast-led planning, there is a growing need to think about what a good vision looks like, how a vision can be created, who should be involved in creating a vision, and, ultimately... Read More about Visioning for transport practitioners.

The role of serious games for a better, healthier transport future (2025)
Journal Article

Doubling down on climate action in highways and transportation (2025)
Report

CLIMATES (Changing Landscapes for Infrastructure and Mobility: Assessing Transport and Environment Scenarios) is a 2024-25 initiative from the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (sponsored by Mott MacDonald and Ringway).

With eng... Read More about Doubling down on climate action in highways and transportation.

Using scenarios to address uncertainty in planning for sustainable mobility in small and medium-sized Norwegian cities (2025)
Journal Article

It seems hard now to ignore uncertainty over what the future holds. Such uncertainty poses significant challenges for assessing and appraising policy and investment decisions. Correspondingly scenario planning has become the subject of increasing int... Read More about Using scenarios to address uncertainty in planning for sustainable mobility in small and medium-sized Norwegian cities.

Looking for the light in a dark age (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine

Professor Glenn Lyons shares his pessimism at the emergence of a new ‘Dark Age’ in which steps towards more sustainable and thoughtful transport policies are being frustrated. He tries to find a way of approaching this situation positively.

What’s going on inside that head? Embracing the wonders of neurodiversity in our sector (2024)
Report

It is estimated that 1 in 7 or 1 in 5 people in society's neurodiverse population are neurodivergent, as opposed to neurotypical. In a neurotypically designed society, being neurodivergent can be challenging. But neurodivergent people also have talen... Read More about What’s going on inside that head? Embracing the wonders of neurodiversity in our sector.

Paying for driving: Is doing nothing an option? (2024)
Report

‘Road pricing’ is one of the most talked about non-starter policies in the transport sector. Debate on changing how we pay for driving reaches back over half a century. The transition to electric vehicles may now suggest winds of change. Yet there ar... Read More about Paying for driving: Is doing nothing an option?.

Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead? (2024)
Journal Article

Transport planning as a formalised profession is relatively young and there is no doubt it has evolved over time. In Europe, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans reflect a change in emphasis from keeping traffic moving to place-based, people-centric plan... Read More about Practitioner views on transport planning's evolution – A Sisyphean task still ahead?.

Development and demonstration of a “SWOT in a Box” card game to help socialise Triple Access Planning (2024)
Journal Article

In a changing world, not being able to simply carry on doing what we have always done and getting what we have always got gives rise to an appetite for alternative approaches. Yet an alternative approach must contend with established practice and the... Read More about Development and demonstration of a “SWOT in a Box” card game to help socialise Triple Access Planning.

Triple Access Planning - a diffusing innovation that reflects our new look world (2024)
Journal Article

Transport planning must evolve to match the new context of a changing world in which mobility is just one element of how we connect with the things we need and want to have, and to do, says Professor Glenn Lyons. Here he explains the origins and deve... Read More about Triple Access Planning - a diffusing innovation that reflects our new look world.

Triple access planning for uncertain futures - A handbook for practitioners (2024)
Report

Planning for the future continues to evolve in the face of a changing world. What we did in the past will not work for the future. Even the recent shift, with greater interest in transport planning being vision-led and focused on people rather than t... Read More about Triple access planning for uncertain futures - A handbook for practitioners.

Uncertainty and triple access planning in European sustainable urban mobility plans: A long way to go yet? (2024)
Journal Article

Triple Access Planning (TAP) is the idea that accessibility can be delivered through physical mobility, digital connectivity, and spatial proximity. There is great uncertainty as to how far one of these three elements will substitute for or complemen... Read More about Uncertainty and triple access planning in European sustainable urban mobility plans: A long way to go yet?.

Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning (2023)
Journal Article

Planning for the future involves making sense of the present and examining possible changes in key factors that can influence the future. Actors rely upon mental models of the system that planning addresses: their simplified interpretations of the ma... Read More about Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning.

I’m 95.4% confident you’ll like this (2023)
Journal Article

This short viewpoint article draws attention to, and expresses frustration over, the phenomenon of false precision. False precision abounds within (and beyond) the transport sector. It seems many find it irresistable to present numbers with far more... Read More about I’m 95.4% confident you’ll like this.

Future of mobility (2023)
Journal Article

This article offers a personal perspective on the future of mobility, drawing upon the author's 30-year career in the transport sector.

TAP-SWOT in a BOX (2023)
Digital Artefact

TAP-SWOT in a BOX is a serious game.

Transport planning has traditionally sat within the predict and provide paradigm – focused upon a forecast-led approach to addressing car-centric planning. Triple Access Planning (TAP) sits within the decide an... Read More about TAP-SWOT in a BOX.

Key questions for road investment and spending (2023)
Report

This report has been produced by the Road Investment Scrutiny Panel – an assembled group of senior professionals supported by funding from the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund.

Roads are the arteries of economic and social prosperity. They also come at a c... Read More about Key questions for road investment and spending.

Seeing the road ahead (2023)
Journal Article

This article considers the changing place of roads in supporting society and the future prospects for roadspace in the context of rethinking connectivity and accessibility in society. It stems from the author's role as a member of the Wales Roads Rev... Read More about Seeing the road ahead.

Freight: The final frontier (2022)
Journal Article

On 14 July 2022 the 13th event in the PTRC Fireside Chat Series took place. With a panel of experts, this addressed the future of freight. This short article is the author's abridged writeup of that event.

It’s time to act on pavement misuse (2022)
Journal Article

This short commentary article offers a critical assessment of the mistreatment of pavements (walkways) in the UK in the face of continued (ab)use of the pavement for parking motorised vehicles.