Category : Infrastructure
A conference last week addressed the question of what to do about aviation. This is a very vexed question – we all want to travel and mostly want to fly. But none of us want aircraft overhead or runways gobbling up land. And our most successful airport, Heathrow, has only two runways where most large…
I spoke last week at a fascinating day on how policy development needs to be rethought, organised by Synthesis of which I am an Associate. The day made clear that both the techniques now available to us (computer modelling, simulation techniques) and our understanding of the elements of our problems (dynamics, feedbacks, behaviours, networks) suggest…
It is fascinating how our attitudes have changed. Ten years ago, I was arguing the case for Crossrail – the London rail link which will increase capacity into central London by around 80,000 people in the peak – to an audience which was entirely cynical about our ability to deliver this. An attempt to get…