About the session
Professor Glen Lyons, Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility, University of the West of England
The presentation suggests that being truly smart is about achieving connectivity in society that is that is affordable, effective, attractive and sustainable. This concerns a Triple Access System perspective, recognising that while the transport system provides physical mobility to enable us to access people, goods, services and opportunities, the land use system can provide spatial proximity enabling access and a now rapidly matured (and maturing) telecommunications system provides digital connectivity for access. Getting smart means taking a socio-technical perspective that looks to understand what societal outcomes inventive ideas could help enable. That’s responsible innovation.
