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Transport Innovation, Complexity, and Resilience

Wednesday 16 Apr 2025

Work by researchers in the School of Engineering and Innovation has informed recent horizon scans on Transport Innovations and Transport System Resilience by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). POST briefings and horizon scans primarily support the select committees of both Parliamentary Houses to ensure that the best available research evidence and information is brought to bear on the legislative process and scrutiny of Government.

The report Transport: innovations to address complex challenges makes reference to OU-led research by Professor Emeritus Stephen Potter and E&I researchers Matthew Cook and Miguel Valdez, as well as OU alumnus Marcus Enoch [Potter, S.; Valdez, M.; Enoch, M. and Cook, M. (2022). Demand-responsive transport returns to Milton Keynes – lessons for a bus industry in crisis? Town and Country Planning, 91(5) pp. 319–329], available on the Open Research Online platform ORO.

The horizon scan on Transport systems resilience features two articles co-authored by E&I researchers: Haarstad, H., Sareen, S., Kandt, J., Coenen, L., and Cook, M. (2022). Beyond automobility? Lock-in of past failures in low-carbon urban mobility innovations. Energy Policy, 166, article no. 113002 (ORO) and Langendahl, P-A., Cook, M., Potter, S., Roby, H., and Collins, T. (2016). Governing effective and legitimate smart grid developments. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Energy, 169(3) pp. 102–109 (ORO).