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The transition towards electric mobility is in full swing across the UK, championed by governments and industries keen to tackle climate change and take advantage of ‘green’ economic opportunities. However, the availability and uptake of electric mobility, as well as the costs and benefits, are geographically and socially uneven. As a social scientist or practitioner, understanding this unevenness and the interactions between daily practices, infrastructure, technologies, and policymaking can help guide us towards a more just transition to the low-carbon socio-technical systems of the future. Dr Budnitz will share some analysis and findings from her research into this unevenness from multiple scales and perspectives, before opening the floor for discussion. 

Our speaker is Dr Hannah Budnitz, Research Associate at the Transport Studies Unit and Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

Flix is driving a major shift in collective transport by expanding affordable, low-carbon long-distance travel across more than 40 countries through its brands FlixBus, FlixTrain, Kamil Koç in Türkiye, and Greyhound in North America.

In the UK, FlixBus has rapidly grown its long-distance coach network through an asset-light model and a strong partnership approach. By combining smart, data-led network planning with local operational expertise, the brand has expanded nationwide coverage to over 80 destinations and more than 200 vehicles on its network.

While Flix oversees network design, pricing, marketing, and product development, its trusted operating partners deliver services day to day. This combination of technology and traditional transport expertise has turned a start-up into a global travel tech success story. 

Our speaker is Joe Keller, Senior Business Development Manager at FlixBus in the UK.

The Office of Rail and Road and the Department for Transport produce a wide range of rail statistics. 

Speakers from the ORR’s Information and Analysis team and DfT’s Rail Statistics team will cover the following:

• An overview of the rail statistics produced by ORR and DfT

• ORR’s data portal and recent improvements

• Insights from ORR’s passenger and freight rail usage statistics and DfT statistics on passenger numbers and overcrowding

• Future developments in rail statistics

Following this there will be an opportunity to ask any questions.