Webinar: Spokes and votes - How to mobilise to influence change with Arup

Wednesday 4th June 18:00 - 19:00

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Please join Stephen Bennett and Rob Goodall from built-environment consultancy Arup to discuss their perspectives and experience of working with local authorities and elected members on the planning, design, and delivery of active travel (walking, wheeling and cycling) schemes across the UK. 

Whilst there are standard processes, procedures and pathways with multiple avenues for securing funding and despite a significant uplift in overall capital funding for active travel, progress on delivery of infrastructure schemes for walking and cycling has not as matched expectations. 

Stephen and Rob will share some insights of working directly with private sector developers and local, regional and national government on these types of projects. They will discuss their approach to engagement with communities and elected members and offer thoughts on why schemes and proposals change through their lifecycle due to the complex intersection of priorities, vision and funding constraints. They will attempt to provide some recommendations on the best way to influence and contribute to lead to successful outcomes.       

Stephen Bennett is a transport planning and policy specialist with extensive experience in the leadership of major transport programmes and a strong focus on decarbonisation. He leads Arup’s Transport Consulting team based in London and is Transport Decarbonisation Lead for the UK region. He has over 25 years’ experience in transport planning, specialising in major public transport and infrastructure programmes and multi-modal strategic transport plans. He has experience in Asia, the Middle East and across Europe in transport planning and leads the team working on Transport Strategy projects in Ukraine. He is Chartered through the Institute of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) and a Fellow of CIHT and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport as well as past chair of the Transport Planning Society.

Rob Goodall is an Associate Director at Arup, a Chartered Transport Planner and Arup’s Active Travel lead. He has extensive experience in assisting clients developing local and regional transport strategies that seek to address the many challenges faced in the modern day for delivering sustainable, decarbonised movement networks. He has worked with Local, Regional and National Governments and with Major Infrastructure Projects to develop Transport, Active Travel and Climate Action Plans to seek to respond to Net-Zero ambitions and aspirations. Rob has specific focus on leading and delivering strategic multi-modal, walking and cycling infrastructure plans and developing policy to increase active travel in rural areas, towns and cities. 

Arup guide, plan and design the future of the built environment. They are a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines.

This webinar is part of the Cycle Advocacy Network

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