Shaping Cities: The Future of Mobility
Mishcon de Reya
Adam Kennedy
Head of Business Development, Dispute Resolution
Mishcon de Reya
We have a third in our sequence of shaping cities events, this one is focused on mobility; moving stuff, moving people and how that’s going to change as the built environment develops over the next 5 to 10 years.
Heidi Alexander
London Deputy Mayor of Transport
I think in a city the size and density of London the mass transit system must sit at the heart of how people get around. It’s right for our environment, it’s right for equality of opportunity and it’s right for our health. There are undoubtedly new and exciting ways in which we could do the last leg of our journey differently working with the private sector on what is best done by them and what is best done by a public authority.
Lucy Yu
Director of Public Policy, FiveAl
I think we are probably a goof few decades away from automated vehicles being very widespread globally. Ultimately our kind of vision of the future is that automated vehicles will be far safer on average than the average human driver.
Matteo de Renzi
CEO of Western Europe, Gett
We do have to change our level of trust that we have, sharing the same car with someone else that we don’t know or even more being, you know, in a car that has no driver or even more, being in a flying taxi with no driver either.
Neil Fulton
CEO, Connected Places Catapult
I think an area that is probably under researched is public perception so the opportunity for change is great but not if people aren’t prepared to accept that in the first place.
Anju Suneja
Partner, Mishcon de Reya
Its politics, its regulation and a skills issue. I think the trouble is that actually what we were getting from the panel is that other cities are ahead of London and ahead of the UK. They are focussing perhaps more on the future of technology than we are.
Duncan Walker
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Skyports
McCann Ftizgerald
Skyports is a business that provides vertiports, so mini airports for the emerging passenger and cargo drone market. Hopefully we will see mass transportation using the air which is the underused resource in the cities. We are just seeing the emergence of passenger carrying vehicles so within the next three to five years we’ll see people flying around by drones for the same price as an Uber.
Phill Davies
Co-Founder and Commercial Director, Magway
Magway is a sustainable delivery utility. We take parcels off vehicles and the vehicles off the road. The UK has just committed to zero emissions by 2050. As part of that commitment to zero emissions there is lots of pipes under the centre of cities that are being decommissioned, gas pipes for example, so we can reverse engineer into some of those pipes as well as lay new infrastructure.
Andrew Blogg
Co-Founder and Director, Future Aerial Innovations
We’ve kind of had 10 years of kind of finding our feet in the drone industry in the UK and across Europe but I think we are at a catalyst now where we are going to see a real emergency of drones being used in everyday tasks.
Susan freeman
Partner, Mishcon de Reya
We need to get up to speed very quickly and we need to find ways to do it and I think there is a really interesting message from Heidi Alexander that there are huge opportunities for the public sector and private sector to work together to make some of this happen and that’s the space we are very much in at Mishcon de Reya.