Transport Talks: Recent Episodes
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These podcast explore the wide range of issues that transportation brings to the world. The series aims to inform and educate people about transport's importance to peoples' lives. Brought to you by www.ciht.org.uk
This podcast explores a project in Westminster involving side road zebra crossings. The initiative aims to improve pedestrian priority and road safety by using simple, low-cost road markings to nudge driver behavior. Experts discuss how these trials support 2022 Highway Code changes, noting that driver compliance nearly doubled at the test locations. While the markings are currently informal in England, the project's data has already influenced official transport standards in Wales. Ultimately, the trial demonstrates how minimal design interventions can effectively manage traffic flow while creating a more accessible and inclusive urban environment.
The podcast host, Justin Ward, interviewed a panel of four key professionals who were central to the design, modeling, and rollout of the Westminster trials:
Keith Furth – Project Director from the transport and engineering team at NRP.
* Dean Gibbs – Associate Director at NRP, who worked closely with contractor FM Conway to manage the physical, on-the-ground implementation of the crossings.
* Dean Walker – Director at NRP and the project manager who led the micro-simulation traffic modeling and data analysis.
* Hayden Tuck* – The Client Officer representing Westminster City Council
A landmark document titled "Better Connected: A Strategy for Integrated Transport," published in April 2026, is set to fundamentally reshape how people move across England. The strategy marks a significant shift toward a transport network designed to be safe, reliable, affordable, and accessible, placing "people, place, and partnership" at its core.
In this interview, Danny Williams, the former civil servant who led the development of the strategy and founding CEO of Active Travel England, is interviewed describing the document as a "direction of travel" for the nation.
Danny Williams is a partner at Strat-edgy LLP, a strategy consultancy that works exclusively with senior leaders in transport, infrastructure, and government. Danny has operated at senior level across government and private sector leadership. He founded and led Active Travel England – a new executive agency – before leading development of the first national transport strategy in two decades at the Department for Transport.
This episode of CIHT Transport Talks podcast hears from experts reflecting on the findings of the CLIMATES project – a major programme involving more than 300 professionals exploring how the sector can respond to climate change over the next decade.
Featuring:
- Professor Glenn Lyons, immediate past president of CIHT, and Mark McDonald's, professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol.
- Claire Haig, founder and CEO of Greener Vision. Claire is also executive director of the Transport Knowledge Hub and creator of the Tabular Project.
- Annette Smith, Project Director at Mark McDonald.
Key links:
CIHT CLIMATES report (2025)
A Well-Adapted Transport System: Findings from the CCC’s independent assessment of climate risk and adaptation options - 11 June 2026, 12:30-13:30 - CIHT Webinar
National Emergency Briefing
This episode features an interview with Professor Amanda Kirby
CIHT Learn courses:
Planning and Designing Transport Infrastructure for Neurodivergent Users
Enabling Neuroinclusion in the Transport Profession
Professor Amanda Kirby MBBS MRCGP PhD FCGI
Amanda is an emeritus professor at the University of South Wales, an honorary professor at Cardiff University, and a Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin.
She is the founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions, a globally recognised tech-for-good company specialising in neurodiversity screening and support tools for education and employment, and justice settings.
With more than 35 years of clinical and research experience in neurodiversity, Amanda has authored 10 books and over 100 research papers. Her 2021 book, Neurodiversity at Work, won the EDI Business Book Award. She was the Chair of the ADHD Foundation and has worked closely with several other charities in this sector. She has been a contributor to developing global standards, such as the UK’s BSI’s Design for the Mind guidelines. She is currently writing her 11th book on Neurodiversity and Parenting.
She has recently chaired the Neurodiversity at Work review for DWP and is leading on the City and Guilds Neurodiversity Index- 2026, which will be out in March.
Amanda is a LinkedIn Top Voice with 150,000+ followers and has a weekly subscriber base to her Neurodiversity 101 newsletter of 165,000+.
Her passion remains championing neurodivergent talent and creating inclusive workplaces as a parent, grandparent of neurodivergent family members, as well as recognising herself as having neurodivergent traits.
Also referenced in the episode - Design for the Mind. Neurodiversity & the Built Environment - PAS 6463
Join CIHTs Professional Development Offcer and guest speakers from key positions within the level 3 transport planning technician apprenticeship.
Celebrating a decade of collaboration and achievement since its introduction in 2016, CIHT talks with apprenntices, training providers and employers to share insights from across the apprenticeship journey.
Gues speakers include:
* Sarah Carter, Project Manager, at Leeds College of Building, reflects on her role in delivering the apprenticeship.
* Richard Garratt, Head of Transport Planning Apprenticeship Scheme at Leicestershire County Council, highlights the value that apprentices bring to businesses including their contribution to real-world projects.
* Distinction level apprentice, Shakira Bickhan, shares her personal journey and what inspired her to choose the apprenticeship route, the support she received from CIHT, and the apprenticeship’s role in building her confidence, professional competence and career opportunities.
The podcast also highlights CIHT’s ongoing role as an End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO), and how engagement with CIHT supports apprentices during their training and beyond, including professional registration.
This episode is to highlight the CIHT Naitonal Conference 2026 taking place on 18 March.
1 Basinghall Avenue City of London EC2V 5DD UNITED KINGDOM
The title of the conference is: From Risk to Resilience
The conference which will take place in London, will explore how we move from risk to resilience, to make our highways resilient to the full range of hazards faced.
The one-day event will bring together high-profile speakers from government agencies, local authorities and industry leaders to discuss the pressing challenges we face today and the pioneering solutions that will drive us forward.
Bookings Now Open: Tickets are limitedJust like the 2025 Conference, we’re expecting the 2026 Conference sell out fast. So please share with colleagues and book your place early to secure the Individual and Group Early Bird rates before they are gone.
National Conference 2026
This episode of CIHT’s Transport Talks was developed in partnership with the Bus Centre of Excellence.
Featuring an interview with Tom Cunnington from Transport for London. Tom provides his insights into Allyship through his work with Women in Bus and Coach – an organisation that aims to create a national network to encourage, represent, support and retain women in the bus, coach and community transport profession.
The theme of the episode is on the eternal vigilance of an ally – an implication of something that requires continuous effort – that help and support need to be part of an ongoing conscious undertaking.
This episode features an interview with Andreas Markides.
Based around his book Urban Myths. Urban Myths is an intriguing and fascinating read that explores the prism of ancient Greek civilisation and myths as a reference to show how human behaviour, values and frailties are timeless.
Andreas Markides BSc MSc CEng FICE FCIHT AoU is a chartered civil engineer with a masters in Transport Planning from Imperial College. In the past he had been chairman of Colin Buchanan and Partners and he is now chairman of Markides Associates, a consultancy which employs 35 transport planners and engineers.
In 2013 Andreas had led the Government’s Planning Commission for the island of Cyprus and he was the President of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) in the UK during 2017/2018.
He has appeared as expert witness at many public inquiries and he has led several town centre regeneration as well as urban extension projects. He has written many learned papers and presented at numerous conferences.
What is the opportunity for shared transport to change travel in the UK?
This episode spans widely looking at how car clubs can have an impact the size of Hyde Park, how DRT could work for rural users, to how e-bikes and e-scooters should be legislated for.
Featuring an interview with the Richard Dilks, Chief Executive of Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK). CoMoUK is the national charity dedicated to the social, economic and environmental benefits of shared transport.
This episode was recorded in July 2025
Inspiring the Next Generation: CIHT and BCoE Explore Careers in the Bus Sector
In the latest 'Transport Talks' podcast episode, the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) has worked in partnership with the Bus Centre of Excellence (BCoE) to explore how to inspire the next generation and explore careers in the bus sector. Featuring an interview with extremely experienced transport professional Leon Daniels who shares his insights on how to attract and retain talent in the bus sector.
From Accidental Entry to Industry Leadership Leon Daniels, Chair of the BCoE Advisory Board and former Managing Director of Surface Transport at Transport for London, joined CIHT’s Justin Ward to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the industry.
With a career spanning the UK, Hong Kong, and the USA, Daniels brought a global perspective to the conversation. Leon Daniels candidly shared that his own entry into the bus industry was accidental, evolving from a publishing role into sightseeing and eventually London’s tendered bus market. While not a recommended route, his story underscores the importance of seizing opportunities and finding passion in unexpected places.
Phil Jones helped make history after the Welsh Parliament passed a resolution to introduce a national 20 mph default speed limit. Phil chaired the Welsh 20mph Task Force Group which led to this change.
Kate Carpenter is a Road Safety Professional passionate about evidence/intelligence for casualty prevention and public health through road design, operation and network management. Kate has given evidence to Select Committee hearings on road safety.
Both are valued CIHT members.
Justin Ward interviews Phil Jones and Kate Carpenter about the lessons of the 20mph speed limit in Wales
In this latest episode of CIHT’s podcast “Transport Talks” we spoke to Rebecca Paramor, CIHT Emerging Professional of the Year 2024/25, Site Engineer, Morgan Sindall, and Grace Prendergast, Carbon Analyst, FM Conway, role model for the Highways Sector Council Ways of Life Campaign.
Rebecca and Grace take us through:
· Varying routes into the sector
· The plethora of opportunities available
· The direct role that their skills and aspirations have in future proofing the sector
· How to change perceptions of the sector and attract skilled young professionals to the sector
Listen to the podcast to discover insights from two of our emerging professionals around just how emerging professionals can and do shape the future of the transport system.
In the latest episode of CIHT’s Transport Talks, sponsored by AtkinsRealis, experts Simon Shapcott, Net Zero Director, and Jo Bacon, Social and Behavioural Science Technical Director, dive into the pressing impacts of climate change on transport systems.
This podcast explores an insight into TRICS - the system of multi-modal trip generation analysis for developments in the UK and Ireland. The podcast provides unique insights into work developed by TRICS that tells us how trips have changed over time and how this is reshaping the landscape - from drive thrus increasing to shifts in supermarket shopping trends.
Featuring an interview with Ian Coles is Managing Director at TRICS Consortium Limited.
Ian has worked on the TRICS project for almost 34 years, having first encountered it upon joining JMP as a Technical Assistant in 1991. He went on to eventually be the TRICS Project Manager for some 20 years, with this role continuing upon TRICS becoming an independent Limited Company in January 2015 (and about to celebrate 10 years as such in 2025). In 2023 he became Project Director and was appointed Managing Director in September 2024.
Ian’s TRICS project milestones through his career include the introduction of Multi-Modal surveys in 2000, the implementation of Standardised Assessment Methodology (SAM) surveys for monitoring developments with Travel Plans in 2005, delivering TRICS as a live web application in 2007, and the TRICS 7 system upgrade and redesign in 2013. Along the way he has seen much change in the industry and has ensured that TRICS continues to adapt, evolve and innovate to meet the needs of its users, also known as the TRICS Community. More recent and ongoing work has been directing the commission of TRICS 8, which is a major system upgrade and redesign (currently under development), plus the further integration of TRICS with Vision Led Transport Planning.
Listen in as we dive into the Institution’s transformative EDI journey, from acknowledging the importance of diversity to embedding inclusion into professional practice as one of CIHT’s three overarching themes.
In this episode of Transport Talks, CIHT's podcast, we speak to Dr. Lalitha Krishnamoorthy, AI and Digital Lead at Stantec, about how Ai can play a vital role in shaping the futur eof transport.
In this episode of Transport Talks we talked to Emmanuel Afolabi, founder of the FestHub, a community organisation founded in 2021 to inspire young people into Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) through innovative programmes that make a career in STEM an attractive choice.
This podcast features an edited version from CIHT's webinar -'Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia' held in support of Dementia Action Week 2024. In this episode you will hear from people living with dementia and from leading experts on how to make our transport network more accessible and inclusive.
The webinar provided an opportunity to launch CIHT’s new course ‘Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia’. This course offers a new approach, hearing directly from people with dementia, considering experiences throughout journeys and exploring real actions that we can all take to involve and learn from people.
In this podcast you'll hear from Andy Hyde who created the course content along with other contributors and experts in participative design. You'll hear about approaches that can help you to find the best problems to solve and to do so most effectively, by involving people with dementia.
CIHT's course - Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia
Useful resources for helping with designing highways and transportation for people with dementia
In this podcast episode, we talk to Mats Sköldberg, Head of Technology at Volvo Construction Equipment about the pros and cons of electric batteries and hydrogen fuel cells for powering construction equipment.
In this episode of CIHT’s podcast “Transport Talks” we talked to CIHT Technical Champion and Principal Consultant at AECOM, Federico Perrotta, about the challenges and opportunities the transport sector is currently facing to adapt to climate change.
We explored the critical steps that the sector will have to take in the next years to better understand the long term impacts of climate change and how the profession can build the right skills to adapt to new challenges.
In the latest episode of CIHT’s podcast “Transport Talks” we were joined by Phil Blythe, CBE, Director of the DARe Hub and Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems at Newcastle University, to talk about resilience in the transport sector.
In this podcast we discussed why climate change resilience has not received much attention so far, when compared to efforts to reduce carbon emissions and why it is crucial for the future.
We also talked about what skills people in the transport industry will need to cope with future challenges and how Professor Blythe's experience during the pandemic helped him understand the importance of being prepared.
In this podcast with AtkinsRéalis you will hear about the critical importance of road safety and the transformative power of changing behaviours to create roads where safety is not just a goal, but a shared responsibility shaping a better future for us all.
In this podcast we explored the critical elements of road safety in the UK, delved into the ambitious Vision Zero initiative aiming for elimination of traffic fatalities, discussed dangers of drink driving, and unraveled the complexities of setting and adhering to speed limits.
In the latest episode of CIHT’s podcast “Transport Talks” we explored the topic of mobility rights with Bert Bailie, CIHT Technical Champion and Chair of the Inclusive Mobility and Transport Advisory Committee (IMTAC) in Northern Ireland.
We talked about the importance of designing and delivering a transport system that accounts for the needs of older and disabled people and the key actions we, as professionals, can take to better understand their needs.
In this episode of CIHT’s Transport Talks we explored the topic of Sustainable transport and the challenges and opportunities that the sector faces in planning, funding and implementing modal shift.
Over 3m people in north of England ‘face social exclusion due to poor transport’ according to a study undertaken by Transport for the North.
This episode features an interview with Martin Tugwell, former President of CIHT and Chief Executive of Transport for the North and Sara Zuin, a policy advisor on transport infrastructure at CIHT who has a background in economics.
To read the study: 'Transport-related social exclusion in the North of England'
To read the strategy: Connecting communities | The socially inclusive transport strategy for the North of England - Transport for the North
Nazir Alli is the President of PIARC - the World Road Association - and was elected for a term 2022-2024. He was the founding CEO of the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) in postapartheid South Africa.
The interview explores decarbonisation and diversity in the gloal road sector.
This podcast features an interview with Nazir Alli the founding CEO of the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) in postapartheid South Africa.
In addition to transforming a government department into a corporatized national roads agency, some of his significant achievements include major multi-billion ZAR infrastructure projects such as cross-border toll roads and binational water supply and hydropower projects. During his tenure as CEO of SANRAL, he oversaw the development of national secondary bond markets for toll roads, and, at the time, introduced the world’s first interoperable electronic tolling system
This episode of CIHT ‘s Transport Talks explored the work of CIHT EDI Panel with one of its active members, Ian Gittens and CIHT EDI manager Emma Carruthers. Listen in to learn about our 5-year Strategy, our commitment to support every professional in the sector and how to get the CIHT Charter mark.
In the latest episode of CIHT's Transport Talks podcast series, we talk to Justin Moss, Head of Business Development – Electrification at Siemens Mobility Limited and RIA North Chair; and Andy Watson, Director Central Government Advisory at Costain.
Listen in to discover why HGV decarbonisation is such a difficult problem and how Electric Road Systems can help to solve it. We also discuss the Electric Road System feasibility study that was led by Costain and Siemens as well as the importance of the UK keeping up with developments in mainland Europe.
The issue of integrating planning a transport is not a new one, and is something that CIHT has advocated throught a number of collaborative pieces, inlcuidng Better planing, better trasport, better places and Fixing a failing planning and transport system.
In this episode of CIHT's Transport Talks, CIHT president Neil Johnstone speaks with Kyle Fairbairn, Policy Advisor - Planning Transport at CIHT about how we best fix these issues and what CIHT is doing in reponse to the Governements consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework.
Listen in if you want to find out about why this issue is so important,
To view CIHT's NPPF consultaiton Reponse, click here.
In the latest episode of CIHT's Transport Talks podcast series, we talk to Shamala Evans-Gadgil from the Research Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility at Coventry University about the future of electric vehicle charging. Listen in to learn about dynamic wireless charging, solar powered bus depots, skills shortages and what local authorities need to deliver public charge points.
This is a key moment for the future of our roads.
Against a challenging backdrop that includes legal requirement to meet net zero, high inflation, difficulties in delivering existing investment programmes and uncertainty about the future levels of demand.
This episode of CIHT's Transport Talks focuses on the work of Road Investment Scrutiny Panel. In January 2023, the panel published a report called “Key questions for road investment and spending”.
Hosted by Sara Zuin from CIHT and featuring:
Professor Glenn Lyons, Chair of Road Investment Scrutiny Panel
Professor Steve Gooding, at UWE Bristol and Director of the RAC foundation
To read the report: Key questions for road investment and spending
What does the future of transport look like? The Transport Committee wants to hear your ideas
The Transport Committee launched its ‘Our Future Transport’ appeal for experts, researchers and innovative thinkers to share their ideas on what the Committee should investigate for its next in-depth inquiry. The cross-party Committee regularly scrutinises government policy on transport and the way services are provided across the UK. This time, the MPs want to consider the impact that new and disruptive technologies and trends might have across all modes of transport. To help the Committee look towards the future, members want to hear about subjects they may have never come across before, from people in the sector who are in the know about innovations that deserve more attention.
This podcast features an interview with Transport Committee Chair Iain Stewart MP
How it will work
The Committee invites 500 word written proposals via its website to explain your idea for a subject the Committee should investigate. The deadline for proposals will be 12pm, Monday 6th February. After receiving your proposals, a shortlist of people who have submitted entries will be invited to present their ideas to the Committee in person during a formal session.
In CIHT’s latest episode of 'Transport Talks', Stuart Guthrie, Technical Director at CIHT partner Sweco, is interviewed alongside Mark Batcheldor, Hampshire County Council, and Stuart Gready, MD of OCL Regeneration.
When it comes to recycling tar-bound materials, the UK finds itself far behind its European neighbours. However, in this podcast the three guests discuss the importance of using recycled materials when building and maintaining new assets such as pavements and roads. They outline how the attitudes of local authorities and contractors are changing in the UK when it comes to using these types of materials due to rising costs, the climate crisis, and supply chain issues.
The resilience of our transport networks, when faced with extreme weather, means that there are lessons to learn about how to deal with these challenges. This podcast focused on a report looking at the emergency preparedeness of highway authorities. Featuring Dr Hugh Deeming, John Lamb and Stephen Hall.
DEEMING, H. (2021) Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery: identifying lessons learned by UK highways sector from extreme-weather emergencies (2015-2018) A report prepared for the Department for Transport and the Local Government Technical Advisers Group, HD Research, Bentham.
Stephen Hall ran response and rebuild after storm Desmond at Cumbria i and John Lamb ran the similar response in Calderdale in 2015
In our latest episode of 'Transport Talks' we interviewed Katja Frisinger, a conductor for Great Western Railway, based out of Exeter.
We discussed what an average day looks like for them and how the issue of women and girls’ safety plays out in their role. Post-COVID transport looks like for them is also discussed. As well as what passengers should do when they witness others feeling uncomfortable on trains and the importance of reporting everything and anything they see.
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In 2019 the Welsh Government said that 20mph should be the default speed limit for residential areas. They established a task force to “identify the practical actions needed to implement this change”.
The Task Force was led by Phil Jones.
This episode seeks to understand how - in July of 2022 - the Welsh Government announced this change was to happen.
in this episode you will learn about Phil’s career journey and what led him to being one of the instrumental voices in getting this change implemented in Wales.
In support of Black History Month, we bring to you our latest podcast ‘Black History’. Featuring Tony Warner, Founder of Black History Walks and hosted by Dana Skelley, who’s worked in transport infrastructure for over 30 years, is a member of CIHT’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Panel and Chair of CIHT’s Membership and Member Services Strategy Board.
During this podcast we discuss why Black History Month is needed, the importance of visible diverse role models, what we can do better to create meaningful action within equality, diversity and inclusion, and how CIHT members can get involved in Black History Walks activities.
The COVID-19 Transport, Travel and Social Adaptation Study started in 2020, a ground-breaking longitudinal survey in 10 areas of the UK has tracked, since the start of the pandemic, the implications for us all from Covid on how we live today. There was a recognition that Covid provided the chance for a rethink, that it would somehow reshape our lives; but back in 2020 we were not quite sure how.
As the study said at its outset - the outbreak of COVID 19 was an unprecedented shock in an era of highly connected and globalised living. It was, and still is, a serious medical emergency and also an episode that we must learn from.
This episode asks – from the initial Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, what have we learnt, and where do we go next?
Featuring a panel of experts from the Institute for Transport Studies, at the University of Leeds:
•Professor Greg Marsden,
•Professor Julian Anable
•and Dr Llinos Brown
More information:
https://www.creds.ac.uk/
https://covid19transas.org/
Note, this was recorded shortly after the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a Ministerial Statement entitled "The Growth Plan" to the House of Commons.
In support of National Inclusion Week, we bring to you our latest podcast ‘Inclusive Transport’. Featuring Michael Barratt, Construction Advisory and Innovations Manager at TFL; Simone West Inclusive Design Advisor within the Diversity and Inclusion team at TFL; and Ester Leighton from the Independent Disability Advisory Group.
During this podcast we discuss who needs to be considered when designing inclusive transport. From practical solutions such as signage to the needs of disabled people and assuming that everyone with the same disability will use transport systems in the same way. We also consider what professional transport bodies need to do to make transport more inclusive, including understanding how to interpret standards and how to effectively engage people in inclusive design.
Finally, we highlight the benefits that can be achieved when transport is truly inclusive, including projects being more future-proof, bringing increased value for money, and ultimately, delivers the best possible user experience.
Today we explore five key issues and trends for active travel. This episode features an interview with Professor Rachel Aldred Director of the Active Travel Academy and from the University of Westminster.
This podcast is in support of International Women in Engineering Day - 23 June 2022 - and features an interview with Deborah Sims, CIHT President 2021-22.
Deborah is a Senior Lecturer Civil Engineering, Employability Champion Engineering, and an Industrial Placement Tutor at the University of Greenwich.
Prior to joining the University of Greenwich, Deborah was the Project Director for the Highways Central team with the Mott MacDonald group, managing a team working on a wide range of projects for clients across London and the south east of England. Before that, Deborah was Strategy and Service Manager at InterRoute, a non-incorporated joint venture between Mott MacDonald and Balfour Beatty.
A Chartered Engineer with over 25 years' experience of highways design, safety engineering, team leadership and project management, she has experience of managing large design teams both in the public and private sectors and working on motorways, trunk roads and local authority roads. Deborah also has experience in bid management and mobilisation for multi-million pound strategic alliance and joint venture operations. She is a contributing editor to various CIHT publications, and a professional reviewer for both Chartered and Incorporated Engineers.
Deborah's first degree is in Civil Engineering and her Masters is in Road Safety Engineering. She gained her PGCertHE in 2013 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was awarded Honorary Membership of the Society of Road Safety Auditors in 2011.
This week data was released on Reported road casualties in Great Britain, - providing provisional results for 2021.
These provisional statistics show:
• an estimated 1,560 reported road deaths in 2021, a reduction of 12% from the 2017 to 2019 average
• an estimated 27,300 killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties in 2021, a reduction of 13% from the 2017 to 2019 average
• an estimated 127,967 casualties of all severities in 2021, a reduction of 21% from the 2017 to 2019 average
• there were increases in casualties of all severities in 2021 compared with 2020, though pedal cyclists showed a reduction in fatalities (20%)
• there are age and sex differences in casualty trends, with female fatalities aged 70 and over showing a particularly large reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic (36% reduction in 2021 compared with the 2017 to 2019 average)
• monthly changes in casualties generally showed a similar trend to changes in motor traffic levels
Also included was a factsheet on E-scooter casualties.
To listen to an interview with David G Davies PhD FCIHT, Executive Director, Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS).
David Davies has a background in sustainable transport, road safety and public sector scrutiny. His PhD in transport planning led to his appointment as transport policy officer at Birmingham City Council. He then worked as a consultant in UK and Hong Kong before forming David Davies Associates, which specialised in sustainable transport, including five years at the Transport Research Lab.
In 2003 he moved to the Audit Commission, undertaking transport and environment inspections and performance assessments of local authorities.
In 2007 he moved to the House of Commons Transport Committee, managing inquiries into road safety, aviation, high-speed rail, ports and bus competition. He has been the Executive Director of PACTS since January 2013 where he promotes effective casualty and danger reduction measures and integration of safety with wider environmental and sustainability polices.
References:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-provisional-results-2021/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-provisional-results-2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-e-scooter-factsheet-2021/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-e-scooter-factsheet-2021-provisional
https://www.pacts.org.uk/vaccine-for-vehicles-preventing-deaths-and-injuries-on-uk-roads-pacts-briefing-january-2022/
https://www.pacts.org.uk/the-safety-of-private-e-scooters-in-the-uk-pacts-research/
https://www.pacts.org.uk/pacts-report-what-kills-most-on-the-roads-2/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/06/i-didnt-take-covid-seriously-admits-leading-statistician-david-spiegelhalter
https://www.ciht.org.uk/news/global-road-safety/
https://www.ciht.org.uk/news/smart-motorways/
Planning for sustainable transport requires a fully integrated transport network to achieve an efficient transportation network, which can act as a catalyst for delivering model shift through behavioural changes for the public; and ultimately contribute to CO2 emission targets and improve the health of the nation.
This podcast features Professor John Parkin, Deputy Director of the Centre for Transport and Society and Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of the West of England. John has been involved in all stages of the promotion of transport schemes, as well as having experience across all modes of transport with a specialism in cycling. With his expertise, John has produced an e-learning course on Sustainable Transport for CIHT Learn.
In this podcast, John explores the links between regulation, infrastructure design and user behaviour and their ability to impact sustainable transport. John further explores this link and its relationship with sustainable transport by discussing:
- the changes in The Highway Code,
- the results of John's continuous side road study,
- sustainable transport modules on CIHT Learn
- behaviour change initiatives, and
- shifting the perspective of road investment.
CIHT Learn Sustainable Transport modules: https://www.ciht.org.uk/ciht-learn-1/
Professor John Parkin's work: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JohnParkin
Road pricing is not a new concept, we can see examples of it in in our towns, cities and road networks already. However, to date, road pricing has proved to be politically challenging but a new report by the House of Commons Transport Committee signals that political appetite is maybe starting to come around, or at least that it might have to be.
This podcast features Alistair Hunter, who is the Highways Business leader for Arup in their UKIMEA and Patrick Andison, who is a Senior Economics Consultant at Arup. Alistair recently gave evidence as a witness to the transport committee’s inquiry on road pricing, with this contribution helping to form part of the committee’s final report that was released at the start of February this year.
Together they discuss:
What road pricing is
The challenges that come with it
Where the concept of road pricing is headed
Where and how the sector should be headed in relation to road pricing
This podcast features an interview with Professor Noreen McDonald recording from the CIHT Young Professionals Conference held in December 2021.
The focus for that day was Climate Change and Sustainability- and this interview focuses on:
•progress made in the United States with the decarbonisation of transport,
•how Complete Streets became important during Covid,
•on the big unknown of how the return to work might play out in terms of the impact on transport systems.
•And on how behaviour change is important at all levels – from the personal to the political – when it comes to climate action
A focus on people is central to the future of mobility. Behavioural and social science can help us better design our built environment and its transport system around users, and allow technology to improve the lives of individuals and society.
These are the words of Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor and now familiar with the public due to his role in supporting the UK Government to address the Covid-19 pandemic. He wrote this in 2018 for the Government Office for Science report: A time of unprecedented change in the transport system.
We do indeed live in a time of unprecedented change, perhaps more so than ever, so it is a good time to explore the behaviour change for net zero mobility.
This podcast features an interview with Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh a psychologist – who this year received an MBE in recognition of work she has led on behaviour change and public engagement towards more sustainable futures.
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh is Director of CAST and University of Bath environmental psychologist.
Future of Mobility report (2018) by the Government Office for Science: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/780868/future_of_mobility_final.pdf
In 2020 as covid took hold and one-third of the planets population went into lockdown, some cities across the world rapidly rolled-out provision for active travel – re-allocating road space to allow for people to walk and cycle - helping, for instance key workers get safety to hospitals…. and so on – but these changes sometimes incurred strong emotions from the public and became politically charged.
To explore the politics of active travel, the podcast features an interview with Councillor Julian Bell, the former Labour leader of Ealing Council for 11 years and Board member of Transport for London.
Today’s podcast comes at an interesting time, with COP26 having taken place last week and one of the major outcomes being the shift to electrification and with it being Road Safety Week and the theme this year is road safety heroes, CIHT thought it would be best to explore micromobility and how with TIER, a micro mobility company, how they are paving the way for Road Safety for E-Scooter.
Shalini Kumar, CIHT's policy adviser on Infrastructure interviews Georgia Heathman, Public Policy Manager for UK and Northern Ireland at TIER.
The podcast offers a fascinating insight and how the transition to e-scooters should incorporate education, infrastructure and vehicle design.
Glasgow will soon be host to the Conference of Parties – COP – 26 that starts in 10 days time as the world seeks to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".
In the run up to this, just this week the government published their Net Zero Strategy, ‘Build Back Greener’. From a transport perspective this builds on the Department for Transport’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan launched this July.
To explore the podcast features an interview with Andrew Crudgington, CIHT’s Climate Change Associate. Previously he was Director of External Affairs and Head of Policy at the Institution of Civil Engineers. In his role at CIHT he is focused on supporting the profession to make a full contribution to delivering the UK’s Net Zero target.
There are a lot of things challenging the construction sector – supply chain issue, cost increases, covid, skills shortages…to name a few…But there is also a need for the construction sector to challenge itself. To create a more diverse and inclusive environment, to become more digitally enable, to reduce costs, be more efficient, and so on.
Could the solutions to the latter help solve the former?
This podcast features an interview with Carol Massay - Head of Construction at The Access Group.
Air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. World Health Organisation data shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air that exceeds WHO guideline limits. And UK air pollution is 'linked to 40,000 early deaths a year'
The podcast is in support of the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies.
This episode explores the links between air pollution and transport.
Featuring on the podcast:
Andrea Lee - Campaigns and Policy Manager, Clean Air at Client Earth and Dr Suzanne Bartington from the University of Birmingham who is a Clinical Research Fellow in Environmental Health and Honorary Consultant in Public Health.
In 2013 Ella Addo-Kissi-Deborah died at the age of 9. In the Coroner - Philip Barlow’s - report he highlighted the medical cause of death as:
1a) Acute respiratory failure
1b) Severe asthma
1c) Air pollution exposure
Ella is the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate; the implications of this are explored in the podcast.
About the speakers:
Andrea is the Clean Air Campaigns and Policy Manager for environmental law organisation ClientEarth, which has successfully challenged the UK Government in court for failing to meet legal levels of air pollution. Andrea has worked in sustainability and sustainable transport projects for more than 15 years and has been part of the clean air team at ClientEarth since 2013.
At ClientEarth, she campaigns for a national network of Clean Air Zones to urgently reduce illegal levels of air pollution, alongside measures to provide help and support for people and businesses to quickly move on to cleaner forms of transport. She is also campaigning for new clean air legislation to better protect people’s health and ensure that the UK meets stronger World Health Organization guideline levels for air pollution by 2030 at the latest.
A strong believer in the importance of collaborating and bringing out different voices, Andrea also coordinates the Healthy Air Campaign. Together this national coalition of health, transport and environmental NGOs is advocating for more ambitious action at all levels of government to tackle air pollution.”
Dr Suzanne Bartington (Principal Investigator) is a Clinical Research Fellow in Environmental Health in the Institute of Applied Health Research and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at Public Health England. Her research portfolio extends across three core themes: (i) health and environmental impacts of ambient and indoor air pollution; (ii) sustainable transport mobilities specifically links between active travel infrastructure and health; (ii) environmental public policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. Suzanne has cross-cutting interests in development of new methods for monitoring, analysing and modelling impacts of air quality and application of mixed-methods approaches for public health intervention evaluation. Existing research includes studies funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
In this episode you will hear a recording from a CIHT webinar that was held back in January. This features an interview with Professor Nick Tyler from UCL.
So – why share this now – well the topic felt right to share
Given there was research published this week – commissioned by England’s Economic Heartland – that said the legacy of COVID-19 could transform capacity on the roads in its region, removing around one in nine peak hour vehicles.
And - as of Monday this week - most legal restrictions on social contact have been lifted in England –- it felt a good time to look at what the impact of covid has been, and might, be for the future of transport.
In 2019, the Secretary of State for Transport asked the department of transport to carry out an evidence stock-take to gather the facts on the safety of smart motorways and make recommendations.
So, the question is are smart motorways safe. This podcast features an interview with Kate Carpenter, Fellow of CIHT and an expert in road safety and then later plays clips from the Transport Select Committee hearing on smart motorways.
As the UN Decade of Action – started in 2010 has concluded – where are we heading next for efforts to reduce those being killed or fatally injured on road networks across the world?
Road safety is an urgent health and development matter. The number of deaths on the world’s roads remains unacceptably high, with an estimated 1.35 million people killed each year. In addition, as many as 50 million people are injured. Road traffic crashes are the eighth leading cause of death globally for people of all ages, and the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years. Road traffic deaths and injuries shatter lives and throw families into poverty. On average, they cost countries 3% of their GDP.
To explore this question, CIHT is joined by Matts Belin.
Dr. Matts-Åke Belin has over 30 years of experience within the Swedish government primarily worked with overall safety policies, strategies and collaboration with different stakeholders. In 2007 – 2009 Dr. Belin worked for World Health Organization in Geneva where he participated in the development of global road safety strategies and global partnerships.
Dr. Belin has also chaired the technical committee 3.1 on National Road Safety Policies and Programme, World Road Association and served as the international representative at the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) standing committee ANB 10 Transportation Safety Management. Dr. Belin is also the Swedish delegate in UN Road Safety Collaboration and he has served as national and international senior policy adviser and supported different Vision Zero initiatives around the world. Dr. Belin was also deeply involved in the preparation and organization of 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm February 2020. Currently, Dr. Belin is Director of Vision Zero Academy at the Swedish Transport Administration.
Parallel with his work within the Swedish government, Dr. Belin also has an academic carrier. Dr. Belin has a PhD in public health policy from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also affiliated with KTH Royal Technology Institute, in Stockholm, where he is serving as an adjunct professor on traffic safety. Dr. Belin is also responsible for a research program funded by the Swedish Transport Administration, in order to promote research in policy, implementation and innovation within the transport sector with focus on Vision Zero.
ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance and is shaping industry and investment. This is having an impact on the construction and infrastructure sector and the impacts of this are wide ranging.
This podcast features an interview with Mark Coates, Strategic Industry Engagements Director in the UK for Bentley Systems.
This podcast episode explores the impacts of covid on the construction and transportation industry. Is the industry reinventing itself now from the covid pandemic? What is the role of digital communications in construction?
Featuring an interview with Marek Suchocki from Autodesk.
Buildings are made of concrete and steel, both of which produce a lot of emissions when they’re being made. In fact, these two materials account for around 10 percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gases. The interview looks at how the industry is addressing the carbon challenge.
The role of technology in attracting people to the construction sector is also explored.
Professor Carlos Moreno, is the architect of the idea of the 15 minute city – this was picked up last year by the World Economic Forum and as part of a global TED talk conference. The idea of being able to get all our urban necessities within a 15 minute walk has clearly gained traction across the world.
This podcast explores how the idea is being implemented, focusing on the Corona pistes for cycling in Paris and on recent measures to trial schools as multi-purpose buildings.
The impact of Covid is part of the discussion and looks at imaginative ways of rethinking how art and shopping can interact.
Despite the recent Government announcement to phase out sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, the UK is currently not on track to switch all new vehicles to fully battery-electric by 2030. Beyond 2030, significant questions remain that need to be addressed – such as the increased demand for electricity and where this will come from, sourcing and supply of rare earth materials for battery production and capacity for battery recycling.
Featuring an interview with Professor Sergio Matteo Savaresi. He is the Full Professor in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano since 2006 . He is Deputy Director and Chair of the Systems&Control Section of Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano. He is author of more than 500 scientific publications. His main interests are in the areas of vehicles control, automotive systems, data analysis and system identification, non-linear control theory, and control applications, with special focus on smart mobility. He has been manager and technical leader of more than 400 research projects in cooperation with private companies. He is co-founder of 8 high-tech startup companies.
This is the second episode of a two part podcast on the future of mobility.
This podcast is looking at the future of our global carbon budget, the impact of the autonomous car on future mobility and other things including the world’s first race of autonomous cars.
This is the first of a two part podcast by CIHT, the second will focus on impact of electrification on future mobility.
Featuring an interview with Professor Sergio Matteo Savaresi. He is the Full Professor in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano since 2006 . He is Deputy Director and Chair of the Systems&Control Section of Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano. He is author of more than 500 scientific publications. His main interests are in the areas of vehicles control, automotive systems, data analysis and system identification, non-linear control theory, and control applications, with special focus on smart mobility. He has been manager and technical leader of more than 400 research projects in cooperation with private companies. He is co-founder of 8 high-tech startup companies.
On the Indy Autonomous Challenge:
https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/
Bridge collapses and Grand Challenges. What are the lessons from the Genoa Bridge collapse?
In this episode there is an interview with Richard Fish, a chartered bridge engineer with extensive experience in the industry.
In the year of a pandemic, understanding risk has become part of our public discourse. Today we try and answer the question: what risk do bridges in the UK face and what are the grand challenges for bridges.
The Morandi motorway bridge in Genoa collapsed on the 14th of August 2018, killing 43 people. The reasons for the collapse are explored as well as the wider lessons from this. As Richard Fish said:
'A big risk is a fact that people become complacent...they say: "this bridge has stood there for decades it's not going to fall down, is it?' and sadly, occasionally things do fall down'
The interview explores what happened with the closure of the Hammersmith Flyover and the Forth Road Bridge. The BOF Grand Challenges are also explored, recently published. The first of the five Grand Challenges is on preventing bridge failures, as the document states:
Polcevera Viaduct, Genoa collapsed on 14th August 2018 making headlines around the world. 43 people lost their lives and the disruption is estimated to have cost the economy around €600 million. Since 2000 there have been 125 bridge collapses worldwide that have claimed at least one life, resulting in 982 fatalities and significant economic loss.
Catastrophic bridge collapses occur too frequently even though, with hindsight and timely investment, most could have been predicted and prevented.
The human, financial and reputational costs of such incidents, which frequently make international news, are unacceptable by any reasonable measure. Can we be more successful in preventing them?
Responsible bridge owners have robust regimes in place to inspect and manage their bridges in line with prevailing good practice and yetcatastrophes are seldom anticipated or, when they are, the risks are underestimated or ignored.
As bridge stocks continue to age, the likelihood and frequency of bridge collapse can only increase, along with the financial and reputational damage. It is therefore crucial that we find better ways of meeting the challenge.
BOF Grand Challenges: http://www.bridgeforum.org/bof/meetings/bof64/Grand%20Challenges%20-%20Bridges%202020.pdf
This year the BBC wrote a piece on the rest and be thankful with a headline that included the phrase: an infamous road through a mountain in torment. That description of torment was from 1913. Indicating, that the challenges of the location, perhaps the most challenging site that Transport Scotland manages, have been long running.
The A83 runs for almost 100 miles from Loch Lomond to Campbletown at the foot of the Kintypre penisula. The one section, near the rest and be thankful– has become infamous for landslips, closures and long diversions.
This podcast features an interview with Professor Mike Winter exploring what we can learn from elephants in Burma to what trees in British Colombia might tell us about managing rainfall.
Featuring research:
A83 Rest and be Thankful: Ecological and Related Landslide Mitigation Options: https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/13533/a83-rest-and-be-thankful-project-ecological-related-landslide-mitigation-options.pdf
The economic impact of landslides affecting the Scottish road network: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303885334_The_economic_impact_of_landslides_affecting_the_Scottish_road_network
CIHT's podcast feature in the Top 10 Transportation Industry Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/transportation_industry_podcasts/
Policy impacts from new research exploring the issue of light pollution and how reducing it can help to address major societal challenges are discussed in this latest episode of the CIHT Podcast, featuring Dr Christopher Kyba of the German Research Centre for Geosciences.
In conversation Dr Kyba explains the research which involved measuring from satellites the contribution of street lighting to night time light emissions from urban areas.
The findings indicate that most wasted artificial light does not come from street lights but from other sources.
Direct measurement of the contribution of street lighting to satellite observations of nighttime light emissions from urban areas - published in journal of Lighting Research & Technology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477153520958463
Radiance Light Trends:
https://lighttrends.lightpollutionmap.info
CIHT's podcast feature in the Top 10 Transportation Industry Podcasts https://blog.feedspot.com/transportation_industry_podcasts/
It is difficult to avoid the pandemic at the moment, it affects all our lives in some way. Today’s podcast will look at what lessons we might learn for how we plan the future of our homes and neighbourhoods as a result of it.
The podcast features an interview with Matthew Carmona Professor of Planning and Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Planning at UCL and Chair of the Place Alliance.
Lockdown shrank many of our worlds physically to our homes and their immediate neighbourhoods. Research out this week looking at our experience of lockdown with an interesting finding - those in the newest dwellings reported the lowest levels of comfort – we will explore why this is and what this can tell us about how we plan for the future.
Home comforts: stress testing our homes and neighbourhoods during the Covid-19 lockdown – was published this week. What does this research tell us about how we live now, and perhaps how planning and transport need to be designed in the future?
Report available here: http://placealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Place-Alliance-Homes-and-Covid-Report_2020.pdf
In January 2019, ADEPT - the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport - which represents place directors from county, unitary and metropolitan local authorities, secured £22.9m funding from the Department of Transport for the SMART place Live Labs programme. Eight Live Labs projects led by local authorities with university and private sector partners are piloting innovation across SMART communications, transport, highways maintenance, energy, materials and mobility.
This episode features an interview with Deborah Fox who is the Head of Demand Management at Transport for West Midlands. Deborah is leading a project using innovative video analytics to find better ways to manage congestion. This is funded by a £2.65m grant from the Department for Transport.
After 24 years, the UK Government has announced the end of the rail franchising system. The move is expected to significantly shake things up within the industry.
This episode involves an interview with Sim Harris, Managing Editor at Railnews who brings his insights into the rail industry.
The interview explores the legacy of franchising, what will replace it, and what have been the impacts of Covid-19 on the rail sector. Sim also gives an insight into what we are likely to see come out of the Williams Rail Review. Finally, with the recent Stonehaven derailment when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service crashed after heavy rain and three people sadly died the interview looks at how the rail sector is managing when faced with climate change.
As part of a focus by CIHT on the future of transport, this episode explores how micromobility could change the way we move in the future. As this is high on the government agenda, with trials of e-scooters currently underway in the UK, this podcast features an interview with Philip Ellis, CEO of Beryl.
Beryl is the UK's largest bike share provider outside of London. Beryl has recently been announced as the e-scooter provider for a DfT trial in Norwich.
The interview explores safety aspects, international lessons on e-scooters and the global market for micromobility.
Welcome to the second part of this podcast series looking at cities. This one is called the century of cities, but might have better been called the century of sustainable cities, or even the century of 15 minute cities as it continues a conversation that I had with Professor Carlos Moreno from the Sorbonne in Paris where he is scientific director of entrepreneurship and innovation. Professor Moreno is also special envoy to the Major of Paris, Anne Hidalgo where he was the driving force behind the concept of the 15 minute city. This was a core element of her re-election platform and has, since then, the idea of the 15 minute city has gained global momentum.
The interview explores whether global problems – particularly climate change - will be better solved, at a mayoral at a city state level than at a nation state level and how to address inequalities in cities.
Welcome to the 15-minute city. This is whereby all the daily urban necessities are within a 15-minute reach on foot or by bike. Work, home, shops, entertainment, education and healthcare. Some urbanists are pushing for proximity over mobility and this has gained traction during the global pandemic, so is this the potential solution to how cities should operate now and in the future? Where: think global but act local could become a reality.
This podcast sees Justin Ward from CIHT discuss this with the architect of this concept – Professor Carlos Moreno from the Sorbonne in Paris where he is scientific director of entrepreneurship and innovation. Professor Moreno’s idea has and will continue to shape the how people live in Paris as it was taken up by Anne Hidalgo when it was announced back in February during her run for re-election as Major of the city. Since then the idea has gained global traction as a measure to respond to – and also provide - a green recovery from covid-19.
Further information:
15-minute city video : http://www.moreno-web.net/video-ville-du-quart-dheure-presentee-par-pr-carlos-moreno/
Also, for your information the book “Urban city and proximity” by Prof Carlos Moreno was just published by the Editions de l’Observatoire (July 30th, 2020).
Collection "And Then? "
Available in five languages with one download (French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
This text was written around a question that is dear to Prof Carlos Moreno, namely, in which city do we want to live, as part of his research at the Chair ETI “Entrepreneurship, Territory, Innovation” at IAE-Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne University.
Link : https://vitrine.edenlivres.fr/resources/9791032917824
Whilst we are in the midst of a global pandemic, today we explore measures for how – potentially – me might help address another one. Inactivity has been described as a pandemic due to the health impacts of people not being active – and therefore needs to be addressed.
Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster and Director of the Active Travel Academy helps to unpick how we might solve this with increasing cycling levels. This is an important time to discuss given thoughts being given to what world might emerge out of Covid-19.
This included references to the following research:
Rachel Aldred, Joseph Croft and Anna Goodman (2018) Impacts of an active travel intervention with a cycling focus in a suburban context: One-year findings from an evaluation of London’s in-progress mini-Hollands programme, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Open Access, available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856417314866
Propensity to Cycle Toolkit: https://www.pct.bike/
Congestion ahead: a faster route is now available
Post-lockdown mode shift scenarios for commuting in England and Wales https://docs.google.com/document/d/18l-9NKiJrfqIR1d131k4YToY9I-UPEW2EucWL61lzpA/edit#
Incompetent, or too competent? Negotiating everyday cycling
identities in a motor dominated society http://rachelaldred.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Aldred-cycling-identity-stigma-revised.pdf
For previous podcast with Rachel see here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/ciht/injury-research-under-reporting-inequali
This podcast explores the work of a start-up predictive AI company that improves the way vehicles and systems interact with people in any environment. Humanising Autonomy’s horizontal solution fuses behavioural psychology, statistical AI and novel deep learning algorithms to create synergy between people and machines.
This podcast explores issues such as standards, data, disabilities and looks at how to deliver safer roads by preventing accidents and near misses. There is also a focus on freight and how machine learning can make journeys faster & more efficient with precise decision making.
In this interview Justin Ward speaks with Paddy La Torre from Humanising Autonomy.
This podcast explores the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) review of the local highway network (LHN) in England. This review was undertaken in a similar time frame to the
July 2019 report of the UK Parliament Transport Select Committee (TSC) into the
subject. The report acknowledges that the LHN is receiving insufficient funding.
This review has been underpinned by engagement with CIHT members and key
sector bodies involved in the LHN.
The podcast starts with an introduction from Ginny Clarke, Chair of the CIHT Learned Society and Technical Strategy Board, Andrew Hugill from CIHT, Mike O'Dowd Jones, Matthew Lugg and Steve Gooding.
For more on the review see here: https://www.ciht.org.uk/knowledge-resource-centre/resources/improving-local-highways/
The UK passed a net zero emissions law - this target requires the UK to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. How will the highways and transport sector deliver on this target? How will industry support the sector in doing this?
Justin Ward from CIHT speaks with Maggie Hall, Sustainability Advisor for Ringway as well as the wider Eurovia businesses in the UK about this.
Ringway delivers specialist highway services including improvement schemes, routine maintenance and severe weather response across the largest, dedicated, highways portfolio within the UK including the strategic road network, DBFO motorway and trunk roads, and the local authority network.
This podcast was produced as part of Ringway's support to the CIHT / Ringway Climate Change Award.
As the world moves to electric vehicles this episode explores the supply of one of the key metals, cobalt and the mining industry.
The interview is with Christophe Le Bec - an economic journalist with Jeune Afrique. He covers news from the petroleum, mining and industrial sectors (automotive and aeronautics). He is interested in transparency and governance issues, as well as in employers 'and workers' organizations. https://www.jeuneafrique.com/auteurs/c.le-bec/
Big Data is all around us - but what use is it if our roads are still congested, our cities crowded, our air polluting. How can we make meaningful change using insights from data? This podcast focuses on the science behind our cities - how we can use data to understand how to plan our cities and how this can, in turn, help improve peoples' health.
The episode features an interview with Laurence Oakes-Ash, founder and CEO of City Science. City Science is an ambitious new technology company developing data-tools and software solutions to optimise city systems.
This podcast was produced as part of the support from City Science to the CIHT City Science Healthy Transport Award 2020 - https://www.ciht.org.uk/events-listing/featured-events/ciht-awards/2020-shortlist/ciht-city-science-healthy-transport-award/
How to reduce accident rates for the workforce that keeps our transport network operating? This episode looks at how Highways England's, Commercial Director, Malcom Dare set the supply chain the challenge of halving accident rates by adopting a new set of common standards.
This challenge meant every supplier must half its Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) within the next 12 months and support own supply chain to do the same.
The interview provides an insight into how Kier responded to the challenge. Kier Highways RIDDOR AFR now stands at 0.03 having completed 6 million hours without a RIDDOR at the end of May. The RIDDOR AFR has been halved since December 2019 when it was 0.06.
This podcast features a panel discussion including Malcolm Dare from Highways England, Joe Incutti Group MD from Kier, Scott Cooper MD for strategic highways from Kier, and Neil Wilson Head of Safety, Health, Environment and Assurance (SHEA) from Kier.
This podcast was produced as part of Kier's support to the CIHT Kier Road Safety Award 2020 - more see here: https://www.ciht.org.uk/events-listing/featured-events/ciht-awards/2020-shortlist/ciht-kier-road-safety-award-2020-shortlist/
This episode focuses on the issues associated with the building blocks of our infrastructure: the raw materials that are used for constructing and maintaining our highways.
And, it is fair to say, the materials sector has faced major challenges – recently with Covid-19, but in the background, there is uncertainty around Brexit and supply-chain issues, and then there is a wider challenge of the need to reduce carbon.
To explore this, Justin Ward is joined by Tim Mole from Fosroc. They are a CIHT knowledge partner. Fosroc is a global manufacturer of specialised construction chemicals that cater to a range of sectors including commercial, industrial, residential, marine and infrastructure covering Europe, the Middle East, North and South Asia.
This episode is looking specifically at highways and what changes have and might be required to standards in the future.
This podcast was produced as part of Fosroc's support to the CIHT Fosroc Engineering Award 2020 - more see here: https://www.ciht.org.uk/events-listing/featured-events/ciht-awards/2020-shortlist/ciht-fosroc-engineering-award-2020-shortlist/
Innovation is - at its core - about solving problems.
The response to Covid-19, a global pandemic illustrates how we all have to be innovative to smaller or greater extent – to test existing medicines to developing a new vaccine to an economic response and so on.
For our transport system this has meant a combination of things – innovation of processes, of how we work, of technology.
But the transport sector has long been innovating – augmenting the power of humans through the use of exoskeletons, to the deployment of sensors and satellites to enable us to see and hear beyond our own limited human capacities.
This podcast features an interview with David Ogden from Amey.
This podcast was produced as part of Amey's support to the CIHT AMEY Innovation of the Year Award 2020 - more see here: https://www.ciht.org.uk/events-listing/featured-events/ciht-awards/2020-shortlist/ciht-amey-innovation-of-the-year-award-2020-shortlist/
How to digitally build Britain. In recent years there has been an emphasis on how infrastructure can be maintained through digital technology. In this podcast Marek Suchocki Infrastructure Engagement Lead at Autodesk speaks with Justin Ward from CIHT.
In the wake of COVID-19, the construction sector faces an existential crisis of what do next. Marek Suchocki discusses the potential of adopting digital workflows in the construction sector to enhance services and improve productivity.
The interview covers a wide range of aspect including the evolution of technologies, BIM (Building Information Modelling) and Digital Twins. As the UK recovers from COVID-19, there is the potential to adopt the ideas and principles of building digitally to produce better quality outputs.
This podcast was produced as part of Autodesk's support to the CIHT Autodesk Collaboration Award 2020 - more see here: https://www.ciht.org.uk/events-listing/featured-events/ciht-awards/2020-shortlist/ciht-autodesk-collaboration-award-2020-shortlist/
The Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, announced (on 9 May) a £2 billion package to create new era for cycling and walking.
In this podcast Justin Ward interviews Phil Jones. Phil has over 30 years’ experience in the planning and design of development infrastructure, with particular expertise in traffic analysis, transport planning and highway design.
The discussion focuses on what investments would be most effective to increase walking and cycling, if you can you buy yourself to increased active travel, and what needs to happen to ensure the investment is delivered effectively
Barriers to imposing car-free streets are being lifted following a government decision to enable key workers to walk or cycle more safely. This podcast features an interview with Roger Geffen, Policy Director at Cycling UK.
With approximately one-third of the global population in lock-down, vehicle traffic from the road network has reduced considerably. There has been a decline in public transport use in the UK. But essential workers are still needing to get to work and one of the ways of supporting them is by closing some streets to vehicle traffic and reallocating road space for walking and cycling.
New Zealand has a plan to fund wider footpaths and cycle paths to help people stay apart to help manage social distancing during Covid-19. A number of countries and cities across the world are implementing similar plans. Berlin and Madrid have also looked to support car-free streets to take advantage of reduced car travel during the pandemic.
The UK government recently relaxed procedures for making temporary changes to roads following a call from a number of organisations to do so, and thereby allowing car-free streets to be implemented. The first local authority to take advantage of these new powers was Brighton.
But wider plans for more car-free streets could be implemented by local authorities across the UK.
As Roger Geffen, Policy Director at Cycling UK explained in the CIHT podcast. Roger said the followings routes could be considered for cycling: "The route to the hospital or the route to the park so that parents and their children can get there in safe cycle conditions. As we start to approach the possibility of schools re-opening we should start thinking about the route to the school so that the children can get there without a revival of the car transport and giving them the opportunity of healthy travel"
The interview outlines the links between road maintenance and cycling safety, the health benefits of cycling and what the future implications of transport are arising from Covid-19.
Cycling UK has produced a guide for local authorities, see: www.cyclinguk.org/advice-for-councils.
New guidance is allowing the highways sector to maintain worker safety and social distancing, while aiming to operate as close to business as usual as possible. This podcast features an interview with Suffolk Highways' assistant director of operational highways Mark Stevens.
“How do you mitigate the effects of Coronavirus day to day, and equally how do you build a post Covid-19 future?” asks Mark Stevens, as he reflects on the challenges – and opportunities – for the roads sector during the crisis.
Mark has been part of a joint public and private sector effort to develop guidance for the highways sector that will allow safe operating procedures for highways maintenance and improvement operations during the pandemic.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local Highways Safe Operating Procedures – Protecting our workforce guidance document https://www.ciht.org.uk/media/11135/covid19-highways-safe-operating-procedures-version-1-27th-april-2020-final-1040-002.pdf
How trees can be used to tackle roadside air pollution. Interview with Professor Prashant Kumar from the University of Surrey's Global Centre for Clean Air Research.
Further research and evidence:
Paper reference in the interview and available for free download: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-020-0115-3
Professor Kumar says:
“We have a long history of research in this area, starting with our first journal publication in 2014, which assessed the potential of roadside vegetation to reduce exposure to ultrafine particles, a study that was subsequently expanded to investigate larger-sized fine and coarse particles along busy roadsides. This journey continued with assessments of the relative potential of trees, hedges, green roofs and walls in city environments and proposed modelling methods for evaluating the impact of green infrastructure. Most recently, our research has highlighted the nexus between green infrastructure, air pollution and human health and we have even released guidance on the implementation of green infrastructure for air pollution abatement.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to huge drop in air pollution. In this podcast Paul Monks, professor of air pollution at the University of Leicester, discusses the important lessons to learn. Monks is the former chair of the UK government’s science advisory committee on air quality.
The interview explores what exposure to air pollution might mean with regards to risk with COVID-19 and the emerging evidence-base around if airborne pollution particles can carry viruses and bacteria.
Professor Monks outlines a potential silver lining in being able to see what can happen if there are large-scale actions to turn off air pollution. The moves to electrification of the vehicle fleet offers one route to doing this.
This episode is relevant to today's global events as the world looks to respond to, and be resilient to, Covid 19 - a global pandemic. The CIHT podcast is an interview with Justin Ward speaking with Juliet Mian, an infrastructure resilience expert. Juliet has many years of experience on a wide range of infrastructure projects across many sectors. She is Technical Director of Resilience Shift, Associate Director at Arup and also a UK representative to PIARC.
The interview looks at the implications for infrastructure as a result of the climate crisis, how black sky hazard scenarios can help and how green infrastructure can make places and people more resilient. There are lessons given from Day Zero, where Cape Town faced the situation of running out of water.
In the second part of this podcast series, CIHT explore what positive changes can be made to address the huge climate - and ecological - emergency challenge before us. In this episode we are looking at what can be done in the uplands for water management, the benefits of trees and permeable paving and what how tech can do to help. Featuring interviews with:
- Dr Gemma Jerome from Building with Nature
- Jane Rickson, Professor of Soil Erosion and Conversation at Cranfield University,
- John Fox from LucyZodion
- George Warren, from the Greater London Authority, Climate Change Adaptation Team
- Robert Webster, Senior Civil Engineer at Civic Engineers
Severe flooding has once again hit parts of the UK, this time during Storm Dennis, damaging homes and leaving many people stranded. We have a huge climate - and ecological - emergency challenge before us and we are seeing significant changes in weather patterns, increased flooding, heating etc. This podcast focuses on the extent to which green infrastructure and sustainable drainage can contribute to both adaptation and mitigation. Featuring interviews with:
- Jane Rickson, Professor of Soil Erosion and Conversation at Cranfield University,
- George Warren, from the Greater London Authority, Climate Change Adaptation Team
- Zac Tudor - Sheffield Council’s principal landscape architect
- Robert Webster, Senior Civil Engineer at Civic Engineers
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that to keep the rise in global temperatures below 1.5C this century, emissions of carbon dioxide would have to be cut by 45% by 2030. Now it seems, there's a growing consensus that the next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the global heating crisis.
CIHT recently launched its Climate Change Pledge.
Climate change requires us to challenge conventional thinking and challenge orthodoxies. The interview is with Nick Tyler CBE, the Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering at UCL.
Included in the interview you can hear the latest on the Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory – which is being built now – that has an aim of helping to design the next generation city infrastructure.
This podcast explores how the United Nations delivers inclusive social development
Daniela Bas, the Director at the Director of the Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) at the United Nations explains what the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mean for disability-inclusive transport around the world. The discussion explores how sport is important to the UN’s SDGs. Universal Design features heavily in Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Daniela explains what universal design is and how, for example, it applies to natural and man-made disasters. The conversation explores the future role of education across the world in supporting universal design.
At the recent World Road Congress, held in Abu Dhabi, the foresight session "Road Transport and Disability" was awarded the best session of the Congress, and was the first ever session in the history of the World Road Congress devoted to disability. Daniela Bas, chaired the session said: "Building accessible roads is a matter of justice and common sense, while investing in the future. Inclusion is not only a legal obligation, it is also an economic and social imperative for which we must work together" and added "Nowadays, transport is the vital link to access education, employment, health care and even social and community commitments".
In this podcast we explore wellbeing and the bottom line. Are there hard-line business benefits to wellbeing. Does improving wellbeing boost the bottom line?
In this podcast Justin Ward speaks with Michael Smyth, HR Director at GRAHAM. GRAHAM is an industry leading construction, facilities management and investment company with a national footprint.
The advances made in digital technology have transformed how we live and work and will continue to have far-reaching impacts for some time to come. In this CIHT podcast Justin Ward speaks with Giles Perkins, Head of Future Mobility at WSP. Giles is leading work for the ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme, a two-year, £22.9m project funded by the Department for Transport that will run until Spring 2021.
Transport practitioners are all familiar with consultations, surveys and pop up events but how can we make sure we are really engaging with the communities affected by our work. This podcasts discusses with James Gleave, Transport Planner and founder of Mobility Lab UK, just how we can create a more user-centred transport sector.
This podcast further explores the issues of improving transport for people with disabilities. The guest on this episode is Ann Frye, an international specialist on the mobility needs of people with disabilities and older people. Ann works as an expert advisor on both international and UK projects on accessibility.
This explores a brief history of accessible transport in the UK, looks at how the UK compare more generally to other European countries in terms of accessibility. The episode also covers issues of ageing, dementia and epilepsy and concludes with a look at the World Road Congress session on Disability-Inclusive Road Transport that will take place in October 2019.
The UK Roads Liaison Group (UKRLG) recently published an Asset Management Competence Framework designed to help highway authorities implement the recommendations of the group’s Code of Practice ‘Well-managed Highway Infrastructure’.
In this podcast, Justin Ward from CIHT speaks with John Paterson from Atkins – a member of the SNC Lavalin Group - who was the lead consultant on the Asset Management Competence Framework project.
The interview covers what the framework does, the breadth of roles within the framework, how competency levels are defined and the range of competency areas.
This podcast provides essential listening for anyone involved with asset management.
Over 1 billion people globally experience disability: I in 7 people. So, the question of how we ensure that transport is accessibility and inclusive around the world is vital to explore. This podcast features an interview with Charlotte V. McClain-Nhlapo – Global Disability Advisor at the World Bank Group. Charlotte's TED Talk has received over 10,000 views.
The discussion explores what exclusion looks like in the context of transport for people with disabilities and what sort of challenges are out there.
As Charlotte leads the Global Disability agenda at the World Bank, she explains what the World Bank doing to ensure that the transport projects it supports capture the demands and needs of disabled people; and gives a view as to what the World Bank worries about when programming its road transport projects.
Technology and innovation are changing the complexion of transport for everyone, the discussion explores how advances in technology can help people with disabilities to travel. Charlotte explains how well she thinks that people with hidden disabilities are supported in developed and developing countries.
The Department for International Development and the Department for Transport in the UK are organising a session on disability inclusive road transport at the World Road Congress in Abu Dhabi in October this year, Charlotte explains what messages she hopes this session can deliver.
Charlotte said in the interview: ‘Diversity is part of our human experience and it’s also about understanding that the onset of disability happens at many stages of our lives: people are born with disabilities, people acquire disabilities later in life, and then there is disability that comes with the onset of ageing. So it’s a part of our life span and for us not to plan for that seems very limiting from a planning point of view’.
Edward Simpson, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Institute at SOAS
was commissioned by UK Aid from the UK Government to explore what insights social science can bring to our understanding of the political economy barriers to the implementation of low carbon transport in urban south Asia and Africa.
This latest CIHT podcast provides an insight into how authorities are implementing the UK Roads Liaison Group's code of practice ‘Well managed Highway Infrastructure’. Authorities are expected to have fully implemented the code by 28 October 2018. The podcast features interviews with David Latham, who is Kent County Council's highway policy and inspections manager and chair of the South East 7 Group; along with Matthew Jasper, team manager for asset management at East Sussex County Council and Paul Davison, who heads up Hampshire County Council's asset management team.
The history of the building of the UK's motorways is a fascinating story. This podcast features the stories from Howard Stevens and John Carrington who were involved with the design and building of the motorway and have also played key roles in preserving the history of motorways.
CIHT Regional Voices part two - International Women in Engineering Day 2018. This podcast is about celebrating the fantastic female Commitee Members 'raising the bar' across the Regions.
The podcast speaks to Stephanie Wilson of CIHT East Midlands, Hayley Palmer of CIHT North West, Michelle Wood of CIHT London and Carolyn Rollo of CIHT Scotland about their own experiences and how they are encouraging other women to take a more active role in the profession.
Dr Rachel Aldred is a Reader in Transport at the University of Westminster. Today (17 May 2018) saw the launch of a number of key reports by Rachel on injury risk. The interview with Rachel seeks to answer questions such as: 1. How many un-reported road injuries are there? Who is most affected? 2. Do drivers using residential streets put pedestrians at greater risk than drivers using main roads? 3. Is ‘safety in numbers’ observed over time? 4. What kinds of roads have higher/lower injury risk for people cycling?
Dr Nicholas Falk, winner of the Wolfson Prize for his work on garden cities talks to CIHT about the failures of successes of urban planning in the UK, what we can learn from other countries and the dire consequences of getting it wrong. The podcast is of interest to anyone involved in transport planning or the recent NPPF consultation.
Kate Carpenter, member of CIHT Road Safety Panel and Fellow of CIHT discusses the safety of autonomous vehicles following the news that Uber halts self-driving car tests. Kate was interviewed about the issue on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme.
CIHT Regions and Nations are run by volunteers who dedicate their time to building a local support network for transportation professionals and provide the voice of the institution across and beyond the UK.
Each Regional Committee is different, organising regular meetings around the latest developments in transportation as well as opportunities for CPD and networking.
We had the pleasure of speaking to CIHT Regional Officers about why they decided to take a more active role with CIHT in their area.
In 2018 CIHT launched ‘Buses in Urban Developments’. This guidance builds on CIHT’s existing body of ‘Streets and Transport in the Urban Environment’ guidelines in addressing how bus services can be placed at the heart of development planning and urban transport. This podcast features an interview with Tim Pharoah, the author of the document.
This features an interview with Adam Simmons, Head of Roads Investment Strategy development and delivery, Highways England. The second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) is the first time Highways England have run the five year planning cycle in full. They are taking a structured approach to investment planning, using this cyclical approach. Prediction becomes more difficult as we attempt to look further out, but they must still attempt to anticipate the changes that will affect how we operate.
How do we make the case for transport? This podcast provides are very clear and easily understood overview into the economics behind the decisions that are made when deciding about investment in infrastructure. The insights demonstrate that the economic case can be wide encompassing a range of factors from heritage to health. The interview is looks at how schemes are evaluated after to demonstrate that they have met their intended benefits (or not). The interview was recorded with Ivan Viehoff, Chief Economist at Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA). This topic area was suggested by a CIHT member.
Greater flexibility in financing street lighting schemes should give confidence to authorities who are looking to improve energy efficiency and save money.
So if an authority is looking to upgrade its street lighting where can it turn? One option is to consider an interest free energy efficiency loan, offered by Salix to public sector bodies in England, Scotland and Wales.
This podcast features an interview with Lindy Frey, programme coordinator for English street lighting. Matt Caville, programme manager for technical services and Alannah Powell, the company's PR and marketing executive.
A powerful example of social commentary which tackles the complex moral issues of transport planning in the context of the decisions made in designing society at a local level, from why Paris has a concentration of bread shops to how infrastructure can (and should) evolve in response to the requirements of the ageing population.
Professor Nick Tyler is the Chadwick Professor of Engineering at UCL. As the founder of PAMELA, Nick’s research interest focuses on the way people interact with their immediate environments with a view to improving the design of transport built environment. He also works on low-carbon technologies for transport systems.
This interview explores a wide range of issues from how philosophy can influence transport decisions, how the price of bread influences mobility, to how urban developments are managed in post-conflict situations.
Kieran Dodds, Infrastructure Manager from West Sussex County Council is leading a trial – a partnership between the council and Balfour Beatty – on the use of drones – also known as UAV’s - unmanned aerial vehicles - for bridge inspections. Justin Ward explores the merits and challenges of using drones.
This CIHT podcast has been produced in support of International Women in Engineering Day. This annual event held on 23 June focuses on the amazing careers in engineering and technical roles for girls and celebrates the achievement of our outstanding women engineers.
The number of women taking engineering degrees at UCL surged after it dropped the requirement to study physics and maths at A Level.
Should other universities reconsider entry requirements? Do we risk losing out on attracting bright, engaging, creative students? Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, Nick Tyler CBE explains what happened at UCL.
This CIHT podcast has been produced in support of International Women in Engineering Day. This annual event held on 23 June focuses on the amazing careers in engineering and technical roles for girls and celebrates the achievement of our outstanding women engineers.
Anna Craciun, is a Graduate Transport Planner at Atkins and is the Chair of the Young Professionals network in the North West Region for CIHT. Anna undertakes work in schools trying to promote STEM (science, technology, maths and engineering) subjects.
This CIHT podcast has been produced in support of International Women in Engineering Day. This annual event held on 23 June focuses on the amazing careers in engineering and technical roles for girls and celebrates the achievement of our outstanding women engineers.
At the time of the interview, Dana Skelley OBE was Director of Asset Management at Transport for London but was shortly due to take a role as Director of Strategy and Operational Excellence at Skanska Civil Engineering.
Dana spans a range of key issues from how to recruit to the importance of support networks within organisations. Even the language used in job descriptions can influence the likelihood of women applying for roles.
Interview with Lila Tachtsi, a Director of Transport Asset Management at Atkins. Lila was Project Director for the UK Roads Liaison Group Guidance: 'Well-managed highway infrastructure’ –published in October 2016. Authorities have until October 2018 to adopt the new Code, including the risk based approach, so we are checking in on progress towards this.
This episode features Lucy Saunders, Public Health Specialist, Transport & Public Realm with the Greater London Authority and Transport for London, and Dale Bracewell, Manager of Transportation Planning with the City of Vancouver, BC, Canada, speaking about implementing health and transportation initiatives in their respective cities. ITE and the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) partnered on this podcast with joint moderation by Bernie Wagenblast and CIHT’s Justin Ward.
The major insurers of local councils handle about 30,000 highway claims each year at a cost of around £40 million. What we don’t have information on is the number and costs of the many thousands of claims that are handled in-house by the authorities themselves. This will add significantly to these figures. Interview with Colette Dark, an independent insurance risk management expert at KWD Associates
The major insurers of local councils handle about 30,000 highway claims each year at a cost of around £40 million. What we don’t have information on is the number and costs of the many thousands of claims that are handled in-house by the authorities themselves. This will add significantly to these figures. This podcast focuses specifically on the issues associated with risk ownership when outsourcing services. Interview with Colette Dark, an independent insurance risk management expert at KWD Associates
Data as national infrastructure - it is vitally important that we consider data as national infrastructure, just like our physical infrastructure. The quality and availability of data is as important for capacity planning, routing and resilience as it is for road and rail networks. The interfaces between local and national data are as vital as they are for transport links. This podcast features an interview with Nic Cary, Head of Digital Transformation at the Department for Transport and Teresa Jolley, an independent consultant.
The Code of Practice Well-managed Highway Infrastructure was recently published and outlines a risk-based approach. This podcast features an interview with Steven Conway, a lawyer specialising in claims against highway authorities and someone who provide legal expertise into the review of the Code.
CIHT Council advises on the strategic and professional direction of the Institution. They also have the power to elect and remove the Board of Trustees. Council Members find serving on Council a rewarding and enjoyable experience, and a great opportunity to network with fellow professionals. This short podcast includes interviews with Sheila Holden, Ed Downer and Sarah Simpson.
Our infrastructure – both physical and digital – faces a range of threats from terrorism, to state and commercial espionage, hacktivism to criminality.
The question is how do we guard against these threats?
For those involved in the transport sector this means adopting a ‘security-minded approach'. Podcast includes interviews with Alex Luck, Hugh Boyes and Gary Heward who all work on security projects or infrastructure projects requiring security-mindedness.
This episode starts with physical security of transport systems and the public realm. Then goes on to explore issues and the dangers with smart cities and data aggregation, and includes the Engineering Council's six new security principles for all engineers. Finally it looks at security mindedness and asset management aspects and PAS1192-5 work for BIM.
Is the world becoming more uncertain? What are the implications for transport from the revolution in technology? How will people travel and connect in the future – will they do this in person or virtually? Oil prices have drastically fallen, what might happen to energy prices in the future? And how should we plan the future of our transport system based on these uncertainties.
To discuss this with Justin Ward is Professor Glenn Lyons who has been leading the CIHT FUTURES project looking at just these issues.
Jeff Paniati's insight into transport in the United States is particularly valuable. He was Executive Director of the Federal Highways, where he was responsible for 2,900 employees in 65 offices nationwide and an annual operating budget of $400 million and is now Executive Director and CEO at the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
He led the development and implementation of the highway provisions in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) surface transportation program, including the transformative move to a performance-based federal-aid highway programme. At the start of 2016 the Fixing America’s Surface Transport (FAST) Act was introduced that gave five year funding certainty.
He also reflects on how cities in the United States are changing and also competing for a prize of $40 million fund under the Smart City Challenge. Listen to the insights Jeff provides to Justin Ward on both the challenges and opportunities the US is addressing in terms of its transport system.
Dr Sue Sharland started her career as a scientist, has a background in R&D, and was Chief Executive of TRL for 12 years. Sue is now non-Executive Director/Trustee of a number of public, private and not-for-profit organisations including the Transport Systems Catapult.
As President of CIHT from 2015/16, Dr Sharland chose ‘Intelligent Transport in a Connected World’ as the theme for her year. To learn about all things smart – cities, infrastructure, materials, vehicles, skills - listen to the experience and insights that Sue provides to Justin Ward.
One week before Volvo Cars announced trials of autonomous vehicles in London a panel of experts agreed the UK was a world leader in supporting development of this technology.
Insight into this fast moving and fascinating development for the transport sector was provided by: Iain Forbes, Head of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles; Professor Nick Reed from TRL involved with some of the trials in the UK; and Anders Eugensson, Volvo Cars Director of Governmental Affairs. Covering questions of regulatory environments, what road administrations need to do, how mapping will be crucial for the implementation and details of trials underway in the UK; listen to the panel of experts discussing all this and more with Justin Ward from CIHT.
Sir Terry Morgan, Chairman of Crossrail – a £15bn project – started as an apprentice. His own experience of the value of apprenticeships is demonstrated with what Crossrail has achieved by providing people similar opportunities to enter the profession. These lessons are probably the key reason the Secretary of State, Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin, asked Terry to develop the Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy, published in January 2016. He gives an insight into this, how the UK compares to Germany in apprenticeships, rebalancing education and economy, and how employers should take forward the new Apprenticeship Levy. To listen to this and more as discussed with Justin Ward
In autumn 2014 the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund commissioned a substantial two-year Study on ‘Major Roads for the Future’ in England. The Study, led by David Quarmby, is developing a long term vision – to 2040 – of the role and evolution of the major road network in England. The Rees Jeffreys' trustees intend that the Study should inform and influence policy-making for this Parliament and for the longer term. CIHT Senior Policy Officer, Justin Ward, interviews David Quarmby looking at the wide ranging implications from the study.