Jefferson, Assistant Director of Traffic and Transport at Hounslow Council, asked Matthew to present the Future of Transportation 2030 to the council, which then used the insights to inform the London borough's future transport plans. The timing mattered: residents were facing some of the largest cost of living increases in recent memory, and the transport sector itself was facing wave after wave of disruptive shifts.
Matthew's starting point was that it is no longer enough for governments to review future technologies and business models. They also have to account for new ways of working, climate change and rising sea levels, increasingly rapid urbanisation, and investment squeezes. Planning the best route forward against that backdrop is difficult, so he gave the council a complete review of the sector.
"It's no longer simply enough for governments to review future technologies and business models, they also have to take into account new ways of working, climate change and rising sea levels, rapid urbanisation, and investment squeezes."Matthew Griffin, London, August 2022
He covered the rise of new mobility business and operating models, new vehicle designs, new ways to raise capital and funding for infrastructure projects, Web 3.0 and the future of energy.
An hour long Q&A followed, where the discussion turned to what autonomous vehicles and the other changes would mean for the borough's residents, to innovation in government, and to the tokenisation of transportation assets.
