Transport@UCL (formerly UCL Transport Institute) fosters cross-disciplinary research, highlights university-wide capability, and promotes policy impact. @UCL
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Interested in policy-making, governance & planning issues related to #transitions to #sustainable urban #mobility ? You can still join our online course with mobility experts from @UCL, TUMI, ICLEI Europe & beyond 🚴🚌
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Our team member, Tom Cohen, writes in Intelligent Transport. Let's not sleepwalk into AVs' adoption out of fomo or bcz it looks like a great techfix to society. Let's be more responsible towards our innovations
#driverlessfutures
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“#MaaS and end users” presentation at @iomobility by Melinda Matyas. @MaaS4EU @UCL_Energy @UCLTI #mobility #transport #transportation #SmartCities #smartmobility
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Helsinki’s bikeshare, HSL City Bikes, wakes up again for the cycling season, after a long winter hibernation. It will further extend north-eastwards to Kaakkoinen, Latokartano, Vartiokylä, Pitäjänmäki and Oulunkylä in May. Live map of docking stations at bikes.oobrien.com/helsinki/
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If self-driving cars are the answer, what’s the question? Watch our 21 March @UCLLHL with @Jackstilgoe @BaniAnvari youtube.com/watch?v=XPG_B7kT… … #UCLevents #SelfDrivingCars
Well done...interesting to see how this touches on 'connectivity' at night @elliecosgrave @jen_m_mcarthur
An international research project led by @UniLeiden has been awarded a €1m grant from @HERA_Research
Bartlett Professor @BenCampkin will lead the @ucl team in researching London’s LGBTQI+ migrant night spaces.
bit.ly/BartlettNightSpaces
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Every year the @royalsociety pairs 30 research scientists with UK parliamentarians and civil servants. The scheme is open to researchers from STEMM and the social sciences.
Applications for 2019 close April 7. More info here: bit.ly/2EDw0FF
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"The real game changer will be major, sustainable, long-term sources of funding." Congratulations NYC, on securing one such funding source with congestion pricing! This delightful interview w/Andy Byford also includes a shoutout to @The_Maintainers (freakonomics.com/podcast/in-…).
Andy Byford’s $40 billion @NYCTSubway dream: fix the signals on 11 train lines in 10 years and modernize 300 stations (making 180 handicap accessible). But who will foot the bill? bit.ly/2V3HE2E
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Fascinating insights into cutting edge of #Bartlett #transport research: respectively on #assessment of the #street #environment around new #metro stations in #Riyadh and on #network #criticality linked to the #node #place #design model applied to the #London #Underground @UCLTI
Thank you Naif Alanazi and Yuerong Zhang for the interesting discussion about sustainable metro system planning. Seminar video at: facebook.com/sociallyjustpla… @TheBartlettPhD @BartlettUCL @Yr_Zhang @CEGE_UCL @UCL_BSP #metro #london #tube
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Heather Ward of @UCLTI will be talking about the management of road risk in the Gig economy....it’ll be the perfect opportunity for @InThePinkTaxi to tell her about the fatal accident he witnessed involving a Mini Cab Driver in Smithfield.
Astonishing and terrifying report from Heather Ward UCL on #GigEconomy #RoadSafety risks from surveys of couriers, lift-sharers and cycle delivery agents #TISPOLConf2018 Pressures felt by these non-employees are leading to road injuries
Ben Whitaker @benmasabi of @Masabi (digital public transport ticketing) is 1 of UCL's @royalsociety Entrepreneurs-in-Residence. UCL folk, talk to him about your entrepreneurial ideas in mobility & smart cities. Have him meet your research group or talk to students!
This week the Masabi team has been in #Japan for the announcement of a new #MobilityasaService partnership with the fantastic team at @jorudannews, combining leading journey planning tech, real time transport data with public transport ticketing: hubs.ly/H0hbPTJ0
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Calling ESRC researchers!
The @royalsociety pairing scheme partners 30 research scientists with UK parliamentarians and civil servants. The scheme is open to social scientists and can make a real impact. Find out more and apply at - bit.ly/2EDw0FF. Closes 7 April 2019
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The @BartlettUCL Enterprise Showcase last night featured our #shipping team's global interactive shipping map, demonstrated by @tristanps. See it in action on the Shipmap site: bit.ly/global-shipping-map
Our Enterprise Showcase is now underway at @HereEast, including an exhibition sharing our global innovation success stories & partnerships #Bartlett100
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The Head of MaaSLab, @KamargianniCcm, will be a speaker at the #FluidtimeSymposium19. Vienna, 16-17 May 2019
UCL UCL Energy Institute @MaaS4EU #maas #mobility #mobilityasaservice #transportation #transport lnkd.in/dSUk6Kg
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Join the UCL Institute for Environmental #Design and #Engineering Open Day for a series of presentations, a curated exhibition and guided facilities tours tonight at @ucl #HereEast. Speakers include David Cocking, DesignBuilder Ltd: bit.ly/2OjZETS
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If it ain't broke, don't #fix it - right. But what if it is? Come along to this @UCL "Repair Cafe: Fixing a broken Britain", & learn how to repair stuff 😃 ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/events/20… @UCL_BEAMS_SRF @Environ_Domain @GreenUCL
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"A key part of UCL’s mission is to create more connected, sustainable cities both here in the capital, across Europe and further afield" - Dr Celia Caulcott, Vice-Provost (Enterprise) on signing a Deep Academic Alliance between @ucl and @TSCatapult bit.ly/UCL-TSC
active travel to the rescue?
Sitting down for too long may be causing 70,000 UK deaths a year
theguardian.com/society/2019…
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This week we presented at #BCNilab a research carried out with @NUMA_bcn , @bcn_ajuntament @ferrovial and @Immense_AI to analize the impacts of the implementation of a management system fot the last mile logistics in Barcelona. What’s that? We will explain now. ⬇️⬇️
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The bus helps meet the policy goals of almost half of all Government Departments. Read our completely revised & updated 'Cross Sector Benefits of Backing the Bus' report to find out about this unique policy tool urbantransportgroup.org/reso… @utg_uk
