{"id":82976,"date":"2017-07-26T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=143bb892a33465d9fa24e71f118b0e5f"},"modified":"2017-07-26T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:42:25","slug":"news-story-new-foresight-project-to-investigate-the-future-of-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82976","title":{"rendered":"News story: New Foresight project to investigate the future of mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added link to project page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Technological developments and disruptive business models will have a significant impact on how people and goods move around the UK over the coming decades. The Government Office for Science\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/future-of-mobility\">new Foresight project<\/a> will investigate how these issues will affect the transport of people and goods up to 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the project, Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Understanding what the future of transport could hold is important for society and government.<\/p>\n<p>Policy makers need to think about the longer term future of transport in order to make informed decisions today to shape the way people and goods move in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Foresight Future of Mobility project will help policy makers to think about the future of transport by providing the latest scientific evidence and tools.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The project is developing evidence in the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the interaction between people, technology and data<\/li>\n<li>new transport business models<\/li>\n<li>alternate transport futures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These areas will develop over the course of the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project will explore the opportunities and implications arising from the future transport system in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}