Motivated by attention to questions surrounding future investment in transport, the New Zealand Ministry of Transport has recently conducted a future-focused project where the principal consideration is addressing uncertainty of future demand in the face of a changing society. The central question of this project was defined as: “How could or should our transport system evolve in order to support personal mobility in the future?” The project’s core element was a scenario planning exercise in which four plausible but divergent scenarios of possible futures were developed for the 2042 horizon.

The NZ Government hosted a discussion on the Future of Transport in Wellington.

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