‘Models can’t predict the future, but they can help us design the right policies’

Charlene Rohr

The future of transport is “deeply uncertain” due to a host of external factors, but travel demand models have a key part to play, believes Charlene Rohr, technical director at consultant Mott MacDonald.

It is hard to predict the impact of electric vehicles, automation and shared transport and future travel behaviour, Rohr told delegates at the Local Transport Summit.

“Travel demand models need to be part of the process of how we plan,” she said. “They are a...

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