A Just Transition or Just a Transition?

Join The Transport and Health Integrated research NetworK (THINK) to help shape a possible approach that can a lower the impact of travel on people as well as the planet. Efforts to make travel more equitable aren't working, which doesn't bode well for achieving a Just Transition. Despite decades of research, strategies and campaigns for more inclusive mobility, progress has been described as 'slow and piecemeal' and in a recent Transport for All report, disabled people described the impact of this injustice as being 'felt in every corner of our lives'.

Transport networks are rapidly being redesigned to be decarbonised. If today's new vehicles and travel environments continue to disable and disadvantage, when will that transition start to become Just? When will we begin taking this one-time opportunity to simultaneously and intentionally design for inclusion as well as decarbonisation?

Andy Hyde brings people who are disabled by our transport networks together with those who design and provide our services. In this workshop, Andy will consider what might be stopping society from creating more inclusive services and suggest some ideas that could turn the expertise and experience that exists already into immediately actionable plans for incorporating design for inclusion (designing for people) into emerging plans for decarbonisation (designing for the planet).

“The challenge is to avoid being trapped by the present – which requires finding a method, a space, or a point of leverage, with which to think thoughts that don’t yet exist” Geoff Mulgan

Andy will share some ideas for a new approach that uses a new language of mobility and considers our journeys as a system, a combination of experiences beyond transport. Attendees will then work together in groups, exploring a process that could help align and combine efforts to improve inclusion with plans for decarbonisation. It's not claiming to be the answer, but it's a start.

This will be a participative, conversational event. If you play a role in making journeys happen, join in to meet with colleagues from transport, health, academia, policy and third sector along with people who have experience of exclusion and disadvantage when they travel.

This event is being run by THINK if you have any questions, please contact the event team.