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Uncertainty and triple access planning in European sustainable urban mobility plans: A long way to go yet? (2024)
Journal Article
Rye, T., Lyons, G., Svensson, T., Lenferink, S., Mladenovič, L., Piras, F., & Witzell, J. (in press). Uncertainty and triple access planning in European sustainable urban mobility plans: A long way to go yet?. Transportation Planning and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2024.2311804

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)
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Paddeu, D., & Lyons, G. (2024). Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning. Futures, 155, Article 103295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103295

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.

Future of mobility (2023)
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Lyons, G. (2023). Future of mobility. ITS International, 24-28

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

Seeing the road ahead (2023)
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Lyons, G. (2023). Seeing the road ahead. Transportation Professional, 18-22

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)
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Lyons, G. (in press). Freight: The final frontier. Logistics and Transport Focus, 29-30

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)
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Lyons, G. (2022). It’s time to act on pavement misuse. Local Transport Today, 23-25

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.

The driverless cars emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems (2022)
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Lyons, G. (2022). The driverless cars emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems. Futures, 136, Article 102889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102889

This paper introduces a novel methodology to the transport sector to foster dialogue between actors holding different perspectives on issues pertinent to the future of mobility that might be termed ‘wicked’. The case of driverless cars is considered.... Read More about The driverless cars emulsion: Using participatory foresight and constructive conflict to address transport’s wicked problems.

This is beyond a joke (2021)
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Lyons, G. (2021). This is beyond a joke. Parking Review, 24-26

This opinon piece reflects a critical assessment of the (ab)use of pavements (walkways) by owners of motorised vehicles.

The future of work beyond the pandemic (2021)
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Lyons, G. (2021). The future of work beyond the pandemic. Logistics and Transport Focus, 42-44

On 21 October 2021 the PTRC Fireside Chat Series returned after a summer break. Continuing with its overall focus upon the transport implications of the pandemic, attention turned to consider whether or not we should be expecting a ‘big return’ to th... Read More about The future of work beyond the pandemic.

The transport decarbonisation puzzle (2021)
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Lyons, G. (2021). The transport decarbonisation puzzle. Logistics and Transport Focus, 16-18

This article is an abridged version of the author's assessment of the UK Government's Transport Decarbonisation Plan

Scenario planning for transport practitioners (2021)
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Lyons, G., Rohr, C., Smith, A., Rothnie, A., & Curry, A. (2021). Scenario planning for transport practitioners. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 11, Article 100438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2021.100438

Scenario planning helps in contemplating how the future may develop and can be especially important when needing to make sense of uncertainty – something now pertinent to the transport sector. Accordingly, scenario planning is moving from the periphe... Read More about Scenario planning for transport practitioners.

Reviewing transport in light of the pandemic (2021)
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Lyons, G. (2021). Reviewing transport in light of the pandemic. Transport Reviews, 41(6), 715-720. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2021.1962609

Between April 2020 and May 2021, a series of ten online panel discussions took place known as Fireside Chats to examine the transport implications of the pandemic. A wide ranging set of topics and a diversity of perspectives have made for a rich sour... Read More about Reviewing transport in light of the pandemic.

Discovering ‘the sweet spot’ (2021)
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Lyons, G. (2021). Discovering ‘the sweet spot’. Local Transport Today, 16-17

Travel demand is derived from a need or desire to access people, jobs, goods, services and opportunities. It is fundamentally access, not transport per se, that underpins economic prosperity and social wellbeing. We live in the 'Triple Access Syst... Read More about Discovering ‘the sweet spot’.

A constructive role for social science in the development of automated vehicles (2020)
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Cohen, T., Stilgoe, J., Stares, S., Akyelken, N., Cavoli, C., Day, J., …Wigley, E. (2020). A constructive role for social science in the development of automated vehicles. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 6, Article 100133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2020.100133

Automated vehicles (AVs) have the potential to cause profound shifts across a wide range of areas of human life, including economic structures, land use, lifestyles and personal well-being. Most current social science on AVs is narrowly framed. Resea... Read More about A constructive role for social science in the development of automated vehicles.

Walking as a service – Does it have legs? (2020)
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Lyons, G. (2020). Walking as a service – Does it have legs?. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 137, 271-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.05.015

Amidst the hype and prospects offered by technological innovation for shaping the future of mobility, it can be easy to overlook the humble and enduring place and potential of walking as a means of movement in our mobility system. Yet walking may alr... Read More about Walking as a service – Does it have legs?.

Opening out and closing down: The treatment of uncertainty in transport planning’s forecasting paradigm (2019)
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Lyons, G., & Marsden, G. (2021). Opening out and closing down: The treatment of uncertainty in transport planning’s forecasting paradigm. Transportation, 48, 595–616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-019-10067-x

© 2019, The Author(s). Since the 1960s, development of the transport system has been framed by the notion of forecasting future demand. Yet the past decade or more appears to signal some significant changes to the role of travel in society which are... Read More about Opening out and closing down: The treatment of uncertainty in transport planning’s forecasting paradigm.

The importance of user perspective in the evolution of MaaS (2019)
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Lyons, G., Hammond, P., & Mackay, K. (2019). The importance of user perspective in the evolution of MaaS. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 121, 22-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.12.010

The rapid emergence of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) into the transport sector’s lexicon has brought with it an air of expectation that suggests a future mobility revolution. This paper focusses on the user perspective and offers a deepening of socio-... Read More about The importance of user perspective in the evolution of MaaS.

Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility (2018)
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Ben-Elia, E., Lyons, G., & Mokhtarian, P. (2018). Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility. Transportation, 45(2), 479-497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-018-9871-x

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This special issue is a product of the international symposium on “ICT, Activities, Time Use and Travel” that was hosted by Nanjing University from 16 to 18 July 2016. The symposi... Read More about Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility.

Exploring urban metabolism—Towards an interdisciplinary perspective (2017)
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Urge-Vorsatz, D., Rosales Carreón, J., Mokhtarian, P. L., Dijst, M., Worrell, E., Böcker, L., …Zeyringer, M. (2018). Exploring urban metabolism—Towards an interdisciplinary perspective. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 132, 190-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.09.014

© 2017 The Author(s) The discussion on urban metabolism has been long dominated by natural scientists focussing on natural forces shaping the energy and material flows in urban systems. However, in the anthropocene human forces such as industrializat... Read More about Exploring urban metabolism—Towards an interdisciplinary perspective.