Sustainable Mobilities: Putting People at the Heart of the Machine, Dr Ditte Bendix Lanng, NIRAS

The technology associated with personal transportation and mobility is developing rapidly, and in some key respects, this can be regarded as part of a continuum which has emerged as part of wider considerations regarding smart buildings, infrastructure, cities and regions. The meaning of these developments, and their importance to the lives of users, requires a collaborative, inclusive and people-centred approach to design, taking cognisance of problems and barriers which may be faced by people and their communities in everyday life. In this sense, we emphasise that people should be regarded as assets in the design and implementation of new technologies, able to respond to and consider technology as one of the many solutions available to tackle current challenges.

This public lecture will include a presentation from Dr Ditte Bendix Lanng, an urban designer and leading expert on sustainable mobilities. Dr Lanng worked at Aalborg University for many years, before moving to NIRAS as a senior consultant.

The event is presented as part of an ongoing AHRC Project: Participatory Neighbourhood Planning for the “Brown to Green" Transition, and is in collaboration with the Urban Futures IDRT at Northumbria University.