Driverless cars and drones proposed for London's streets at the London Transport Committee.
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Today the London Transport Committee outlined their vision for future transport in London. Led by Chairman Keith Prince, the committee gave insight into the technological advances, including driverless cars, they hope will make transport in London more sustainable, more efficient and better suited to Londoner’s needs.
Autonomous vehicles, drones and demand-responsive buses were amongst the recommendations featured in the report, which comes ahead of the release of the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy later on this year.
Mayor Sadiq Khan in his strategy is set to outline policies and proposals for transport in London over the next 25 years. A draft of the Transport Strategy was published in June of last year.
Notably, while Keith Prince made mention of the Mayor’s “bold” strategy, he stated that ‘not enough attention was given to technological advances.’
The report comes four months after the Assembly first explored plans for parcel delivery drones to become a fixed addition to the capital. Companies such as Amazon, DHP and Google have already been trialling similar parcel delivery across the world.
Joined by Michael Hurwitz, Director of Transport Innovation at TfL, themes of responding to a ‘changing world’ and ‘increased mobility’ were focal throughout the event. As Michael told us, the emergence of new technologies marked ‘an exciting time in transport.’
However, though the positive aspects of new technologies were emphasised invariably throughout the Assembly’s report, the matter of human job losses in the face of such technological innovations was less . When questioned by City News, Keith Prince said that ‘structural change was a part of advances.’ He further suggested, that while such developments would inevitably mean people losing their jobs, ‘other industries would open up to take people and get them doing other jobs.’
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Today the London Transport Committee outlined their vision for future transport in London. Led by Chairman Keith Prince, the committee gave insight into the technological advances, including driverless cars, they hope will make transport in London more sustainable, more efficient and better suited to Londoner’s needs.
Autonomous vehicles, drones and demand-responsive buses were amongst the recommendations featured in the report, which comes ahead of the release of the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy later on this year.
Mayor Sadiq Khan in his strategy is set to outline policies and proposals for transport in London over the next 25 years. A draft of the Transport Strategy was published in June of last year.
Notably, while Keith Prince made mention of the Mayor’s “bold” strategy, he stated that ‘not enough attention was given to technological advances.’
The report comes four months after the Assembly first explored plans for parcel delivery drones to become a fixed addition to the capital. Companies such as Amazon, DHP and Google have already been trialling similar parcel delivery across the world.
Joined by Michael Hurwitz, Director of Transport Innovation at TfL, themes of responding to a ‘changing world’ and ‘increased mobility’ were focal throughout the event. As Michael told us, the emergence of new technologies marked ‘an exciting time in transport.’
However, though the positive aspects of new technologies were emphasised invariably throughout the Assembly’s report, the matter of human job losses in the face of such technological innovations was less . When questioned by City News, Keith Prince said that ‘structural change was a part of advances.’ He further suggested, that while such developments would inevitably mean people losing their jobs, ‘other industries would open up to take people and get them doing other jobs.’
