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Getting smart about the future of urban mobility

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  • Wednesday, 11 March 2020
  • 19:20
  • Duration: 12 mins
  • Publication date: 03 Jun 2020
  • Location: White Knights Campus, Henley Business School, Berkshire, United Kingdom
  • Part of event The Great Debate 2020 - Smart Cities

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.

Keywords:
  • Connectivity
  • Smart city
  • Sustainable

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