Tag: transport
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Redesigning cities and transport systems
Over the last few years, I have posted here a number of blogs around the design of innovative public transport systems. These have included reinventing the tram, self-driving buses, new types of public transport through to ticketing systems that don’t require a dozen apps and an IT diploma to use. One theme that has emerged…
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Designing Intelligent Mobility
This week I received a long-awaited early Christmas present. My Design Group colleagues, Matthew Cook, Miguel Valdez, James Warren and I had written a chapter entitled Towards an Intelligent Mobility Regime in the second edition of the Elsevier book Intelligent Environments. As often happens for a major internationally co-authored publication, this has been almost…
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Joining designerly dots
This is a post by Stephen Potter, Professor Emeritus at Design and Innovation This Thursday a one-off return of the BBC programme Tomorrow’s World is appearing on BBC4. As a kid, in the 1960s this programme really stimulated my interest in design and technology. Each week a set of potentially life-changing gizmos and gadgets were demonstrated…