Join the Centre for Transport & Society (CTS) for their annual symposium on Thursday 18th July 2024 on Frenchay Campus.
This free symposium will feature talks, a panel, and workshops on the topics of governance and equity; transport planning and placemaking; technological change; travel behaviour and the mobility experience.
The Centre have lined-up an exciting and thought-provoking array of talks and workshops which builds their four research strategic themes:
- Governance and equity
- Transport planning and placemaking
- Technological change
- Travel behaviour and the mobility experience
The symposium promises to be an opportunity to engage with transport research and its relevance to policy.
Programme
After the welcome and symposium opening, there will be a keynote talk by Councillor Ed Plowden, new Chair of Bristol City Council’s Transport and Connectivity Committee, followed by two breakout sessions:
- Travel behaviour and the mobility experience, examining active travel as daily practice and potential
- Governance and technological change, considering a wide array of tools for better performing transport systems (drone deliveries, public transport automation, and more inclusive Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans).
The second part of the morning will be a plenary session presenting Triple Access Planning. Followed by a panel in which the panellists (to be announced next week) will imagine themselves as special advisers and brainstorm ways to brief the new Government’s Secretary of State for Transport.
The symposium will break for lunch with an optional NetWalk.
In the afternoon, you will have the choice between three workshops, in which you can:
- Learn how to use systems thinking for decarbonising freight while considering uncertainty.
- Examine automated bus services from the policy and planning perspectives and provide input to help frame next steps on the research agenda. Or
- Think about the decision-making processes that can deliver more walkable environments, and brainstorm policies’ and tools’ desirable evolution.
You can see the programme below: