Transport planning doesn’t have a good track record. A detailed assessment from the International Transport Forum of why, and how to do better, provides good lessons, not just for planning processes, but futures thinking generally.
We have a tendency to see complex issues as just complicated. Problems that we can engineer solutions for. But complex systems require different questions and approaches. In responses to the pandemic, and other challenges, we risk sticking with an “its complicated” mindset not an “its complex” one.
It’s deceptive to think that new technologies and some innovative thinking will transform government. They are just part of a larger field of changes that need to occur, which I summarise in an infographic.
