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Key challenges, opportunities and barriers in urban transport

Delve into the key challenges, opportunities, and barriers shaping urban transport today. Discover insights from Professor John Polak at Imperial College London on systemic efficiency, technological innovation, and the disruptive forces influencing the future of urban mobility. Explore how cities can leverage innovation to enhance transport systems and drive sustainable urban development.

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Key challenges, opportunities and barriers in urban transport

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  1. Key challenges, opportunities and barriers in urban transport Professor John Polak Director, Urban Systems Laboratory Imperial College London j.polak@imperial.ac.uk

  2. Context After more than 50 years of urban transport policy and planning, I think we can draw some very broad conclusions: There are some things we are rather good at; Improving vehicle technology Improving safety Squeezing extra capacity from heavily congested networks And there are some things we are not very good at; Improving systemic efficiency Harnessing technical and business model innovation Escaping from the contradictions of agglomeration and density

  3. Key challenges To address the transport system as a whole, avoiding modal silos To fully embrace technological and business model innovation To create new understandings of how transport innovation can contribute to the success of cities

  4. Opportunities We have entered a period of unprecedented insurgent business model innovation e.g., servisation of mobility, impact of sharing economy Enormously disruptive technological innovation is on the horizon e.g., virtualisationof experience, automation, distributed manufacture The massive de-centralisation of control e.g., pervasive edge analytics

  5. Barriers Premature and ill-considered policy interventions (e.g., governments “picking winners”) Predatory innovation Collapse of trust in institutions

  6. Thank you j.polak@imperial.ac.uk

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