Micromobility, Levelling-Up and Net Zero

Micromobility, in the widest sense, and its electrification, presents an opportunity to achieve a reduction in private motor car use by enabling more and a wider range of people to move about without using motor vehicles.

Micromobility allows riders to ride a e-bike, or e-scooter for short journey trips of time at a relatively low cost can also enable more people to travel in this way. Research shows the 3 mile car journey can be mostly replaced by micromobility for personal travel.

Globally, micromobility is outpacing electric car adoption and shared mobility schemes increasingly offer a viable alternative for transportation needs, through electric powered bikes, scooters, mopeds and cars. As well as reducing air pollution, bikes, scooters and mopeds can also help remove parked cars from city streets providing further opportunity for regreening and community spaces.

The latest data from the Department of Transport (DfT) shows there’s been over three and a half, maybe four million journeys since e-scooter operation started in August 2020. It’s clear that there is a benefit. In 2023 the DfT will set to legislate for the micromobility provision.

Not everybody can afford a car, not everybody wants a car, and we really don’t want everyone using cars, so they are beneficial. As the cost of fuel continues to climb the price of running a car is expensive. Connectivity and accessibility are the core parts of the UK Government’s levelling up agenda, micromobility can support this.

Micromobility faces a promising future by replacing short distance vehicle trips and providing currently underserved first- and last-mile solutions for public transit riders. However, transport sector faces challenges particularly around lack of infrastructure, policy and regulation to achieve this promising future. There is a need to find the best way to integrate electric and shared vehicles to the full  transport network with other road user vehicles and to take full advantage of their potential in increasing the efficiency of the transport network.

We have launched UK’s first ever training course on Micromobility inclusion into Transport Policies and Road Network.

This one day training course will focus on defining micromobility and describing their potential for individual, business use, as well as for towns and cities as a whole. Scooters, bicycles, ebikes, power ebikes, cargo bikes and other micromobility will be assessed in terms of their proper place in streets with a description of cases for personal, business and freight. The course will present case studies from international experiences.

Our course trainer Carlos F Pedro, with 20 years of experience in urban mobility spanning on four continents, says 

“The transport sector is ill prepared for micromobility, but the good news is that solving this is straightforward. This course is designed to learn how to understand and act upon that disruption”.

The course will discuss the impact and benefits of micromobility in achieving net zero carbon emissions. This will be presented based on case studies from international experiences. Please contact us and book your workforce bring micromobility experiences on their doorstep.

Zeenara Najam

i-Select Consultancy

How to manage effectively with less spend?

Well, yesterday's Spending Review brought a mix of news such as 50% increase in the capital funding for infrastructure projects and rise in the NHS budget from £101 billion today to £120bn by 2020-21. But the Department for Transport's operational budget will fall by 37%, Transport for London will lose billions due to a cut in subsidies and the NHS is expected to make £22bn in efficiency savings while Department of Health resource budget to fall by 25%. The Spending Review reinforced the government's ambition for organisations and departments to spend less but manage and deliver effectively.

Each organisation is indeed now faced with tough decisions about how to best use resources to achieve the government’s ambition. The ‘new set of devolution deals’ also represents an opportunity to improve public services as well as to stimulate economic growth.

The starting point of the devolution powers was with the decision to devolve the £6bn NHS budget of Greater Manchester to a combined authority of the constituent local councils. The future organisational structure and performance of Network Rail is also under review and a consultation was launched on 12th November 2015 following a scoping report publication.
 
In principle it is a smart idea to manage with less and to regionalise the NHS, devolve powers to local councils, establish combined authorities and reform Network Rail. But the problem is that most organisations have no awareness of how to deal with change management and implement successful transformational programmes. 

Because of this i-Select Consultancy designed a workshop on change management and leadership. We are delighted to bring industry top influencers such as Tony Buzan as trainers of this workshop who will held the interactive discussions, case studies and teamwork, to expose participants to the frameworks and tools they will need to succeed in a competitive environment and to achieve thegovernment's ambition to “spend less but manage and deliver effectively”. Please see the workshop details here. We are looking forward to “Think Buzan” with you all on 15th March 2016 in London.

Zeenara Najam

Director i-Select Consultancy