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Triple Access Planning - a diffusing innovation that reflects our new look world (2024)
Journal Article
Lyons, G. (2024). Triple Access Planning - a diffusing innovation that reflects our new look world. Local Transport Today, 42-49

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
Lyons, G., Marchau, V., Paddeu, D., Rye, T., Adolphson, M., Attia, M., …Witzell, J. Triple access planning for uncertain futures - A handbook for practitioners. University of the West of England

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
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Key questions for road investment and spending (2023)
Report
Road Investment Scrutiny Panel. (2023). Key questions for road investment and spending. University of the West of England: Rees Jeffreys Road Fund

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
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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

Travel transitions: How transport planners and policy makers can respond to shifting mobility trends (2021)
Report
ITF, . (2021). Travel transitions: How transport planners and policy makers can respond to shifting mobility trends. Paris: ITF Research Reports, OECD Publishing

Travel behaviour has evolved in unexpected ways in urbanised areas in the early 21st century. This report examines how significant breaks with past trends happened - and why these shifts were not foreseen. The Covid-19 pandemic adds to uncertainty ab... Read More about Travel transitions: How transport planners and policy makers can respond to shifting mobility trends.

Scenario planning for transport practitioners (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Chatting round the fireside - transport tales from the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Lyons, G. (2021, July). Chatting round the fireside - transport tales from the pandemic. Paper presented at 19th Annual Transport Practitioners Meeting, Online

On 23 April 2020, one month after the UK Prime Minister announced a national lockdown in response to COVID-19, PTRC hosted an online Fireside Chat to address the implications for transport of the pandemic. At a point when working (full-time) from hom... Read More about Chatting round the fireside - transport tales from the pandemic.

Technology and travel (2021)
Book Chapter
Lyons, G. (2021). Technology and travel. In Why Travel? Understanding the Need to Move and How it Shapes Our Lives (231-251). Bristol University Press

This book chapter explores our undertanding of the complex relationship between technology and travel and the digital age continues to unfold.

After the revolution? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Lyons, G. After the revolution?. [Online Magazine]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn Lyons has jointly organised and has chaired a Fireside Chat series of events with PTRC, examining the transport implications of the pandemic. Fireside Chat #10 on 27 May 2021 was titled "International perspectives... Read More about After the revolution?.