Good day my good friend.

…and I’m out of time. This week has been busy, so no time for a full newsletter today. Instead, here are some interesting things that I have been reading recently that I think that you may find interesting, so go and check them out!

📕 I have co-authored a book on Mobility-as-a-Service, which is a comprehensive guide on this important new transport service. It is available from the Institution of Engineering and Technology and now Amazon.

💼 I am also available for freelance transport planning consultancy, through my own company Mobility Lab. You can check out what I do here.

📃 Homework

I mentioned this last week, but I consider the Global Tipping Points Report to be essential reading. This is an emerging area of research into how rapid and possibly irreversible change can happen to our climate. To summarise, a lot of it is bad, but there are positive ones. Like lots of renewable energy and selling electric vehicles.

Want to fill a budget black hole and change the world at the same time? Transport for Quality of Life have you covered. The solution: cut the road expansion budget, tax carbon much more, plough cash into the alternatives. Its rather good.

Recently I have been re-reading the Transport Resilience Review that reported 10 years ago. The lessons today are still very much true. I especially like the idea that adaptability to change is a function of levels of use, availability of alternatives, and economic value of what is disrupted.

This one was released just yesterday, but I am still finding it fascinating to read. Cities in South East Asia have been trying to regulate mobility apps, and this is a summary of their experience to date. Some good lessons on equal treatment and not stifling innovation are to be found.

The UK finally weaned itself off coal power this week. This Carbon Brief article summarises how the UK did this. In short, the government gives direction, the Climate Change Act, and market incentives to discourage carbon emissions.