Steady population growth, intensifying urbanization, constrained financial resources, rapid innovation, and growing environmental and climate concerns together make mobility one of the central concerns for those responsible for transportation, economic and cultural vitality, and urban planning.  Pinyon’s newest research stream – Mobility Meltdown | Mobility Makeover  (MM|MM) – examines those forces that are contributing both to mobility’s promise and to the very real challenges that exist now and in the future to helping people get from one place to another.

Using a combination of trend analysis, data modeling, and provocative insight, this three-year research program offers clients unique future-focused perspectives on a wide-range of mobility issues from a consistently global perspective. With monthly, in-depth trend and practice briefings, regular short global summaries, and annual publications designed to engage strategic thinking about the medium- and long-term future, subscribers have the tools, information, and access to face the future knowledgably and confidently.

Key areas of investigation

• Connected vehicles
• Urban growth and population density
• Human Factors Engineering
• Cultures of travel and work
• Public transportation promises and problems
• Multi-modal integration
• Infrastructure and flexible growth strategies
• Telematics unbounded
• Wayfinding and personal technologies
• Global practice integration and rupture
• Rural and urban intersections and discontinuities
• Landscapes of policy and politics

Deliverables

• Monthly topical analysis papers
• Annual reports on mobility futures
• Monthly global perspective briefings
• An online searchable repository of trend signals and data

Timeframe

Every Pinyon Transportation Futures research stream is a three-year undertaking. MM|MM will begin in February 2010 and end in January 2013.

Subscribing

There are still subscriptions available. For more information, please contact Peter BG Shoemaker at subscriptions@pinyonpartners.com.