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FOR MOVING FORWARD FASTER
Leadership, Management and Entrepreneurship
Public transport operators need to become better at emotional engagement
Government wants better transport. Is more private capital the answer?
Amazon Fresh's "Just walk out" technology eliminates supermarket checkouts entirely. We need to take note.
MaaS won’t revolutionise transport because transport economics are different from software economics
Transport
Coaches need to be better to fulfil their potential, says Long Branch Mike
Pedways were meant to transform the City of London. It nearly happened.
Cornwall buses are now superb. But without joint marketing and pricing, they don’t work for customers
The public can't tell between diesel and electric trains, but they can tell if their own car is electric. Is the transport industry complacent on carbon?
Britain's vaccine programme was a triumph. What buses can learn from the Government's life sciences strategy?
Accreditation could turn every retailer and employer into a campaigner for public transport
Making transport an experience could improve the economics of rural transport
It’s all very well having strategies for each mode. But what ties them all together?
Future Mobility
The public can't tell between diesel and electric trains, but they can tell if their own car is electric. Is the transport industry complacent on carbon?
Is MaaS the opportunity it’s made out to be? Or is the hype distracting us from making real progress?
THE FREEWHEELING PODCAST
The Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee (the body responsible for setting Britain’s national carbon budgets and reporting on progress to Parliament) talks transport
Climate Champion for road transportation on COP26 and what the Glasgow conference will achieve
The Chief Executive of Network Rail joins me to discuss the creation of Great British Railways
What does an “inspirational pessimist” think of the future of cars?
The Freewheeling Podcast has been live for six months, so let’s look back at some of the key episodes from the first season
13 years ago, Simon Munk decided to take local councillors on a bike ride to show just how dangerous roads were for cyclists.
Without knowing it, he'd started a revolution. He tells his fascinating story as this week’s guest.
As the Government publishes its decarbonisation plan, lets talk to Patrick Warner (Head of Innovation at Brighton & Hove and Bus Decarbonisation lead at Liverpool City Region) about the virtues of hydrogen
Ray Stenning believes that design is of fundamental importance but is often misunderstood and undervalued in transport. He joins me to discuss what it is, and why it matters
The bus strategy is great but the Williams-Shapps review is not. In her last few weeks at Go Ahead, Katy Taylor talks candidly
Horace Dediu doesn’t just “get” micromobility, he invented the very word “Micromobility”!
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