What future for local transport in an age of rapid change?
Local transport is high on the political agenda. The Uber dispute in London, the National Infrastructure Commission’s recently identified list of investment needs at local, as well as national level, worries about air pollution, and the digital transformation involving driverless cars and delivery drones are amongst the issues attracting attention. Those working at the coal face these days need to mix belief in their skills and solutions with realism, pragmatism and dialogue, and this year’s LTT Summit will explore productive collaboration between politicians, the public and specialist professionals.
This year’s event is set in the context of Greater Manchester's current work on its 25-year transport strategy. The region's experience will be explored, including how visions of place, accessibility, economic development and quality of life can be embraced in creating a successful future transport system.
Three key Summit speakers set out the headline issues:
‘Ongoing devolution of powers and funding means we are entering a new era of more integrated strategic planning. When people find out I've been working on a transport strategy for the year 2040, they ask, ‘But, how do we know what the world will be like in 25 years?. Increasingly, her response to this difficult question is “Well, how would we like it to be?”
'Potentially, the disruptive influence of new technology will mean that we’ll be even more wrong than usual in our view of the future, and this is not just in the transport sector. There’s a growing political impetus to use transport investment and other policy levers to shape our future. We need to find – rediscover some would say – ways of embracing uncertainty about the future as we develop schemes, plans, and programmes
‘We are in the midst of the most energetic push on housing delivery for decades, and a significant responsibility for planning future communities is placed with Local Authorities and developers with plans outside our main metropolitan areas. If the primary goals for our new communities are about the future lifestyles that people want, then its seems highly unlikely that these are going to focussed on transport outcomes, so we will need to be able to work out how transport infrastructure can support the community outcomes contained in the vision’
Final Report from the CIHT Futures Initiative
Report of the DfT Policy Innovation Fund symposium on the potential for the ‘vision and validate’ approach
£225 +VAT - Day 1 & 2 (Includes Dinner Place)
£1,750 +VAT - Day 1 Dinner Table (8 places)
£150 +VAT - Day 2
For sponsorship, table host or ticket enquiries contact:
Jason Conboy
Commercial Development Manager
+44 (0) 20 7091 7895
jason.conboy@landor.co.uk
Worsley Park
Worsley
Manchester
M28 2QT
0161 975 2000
The Vantage 1 & 2 bus leaves from manchester town center to Worsely every 20 minutes.
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