Glenn Lyons

Professor of Future Mobility @Mott MacDonald

Bristol, GB

Glenn holds the Mott MacDonald Chair in Future Mobility based at UWE Bristol. Following over seven years in university senior management, this appointment sees him returning full-time to his love for transport. From 2002 to 2017 he has been Professor of Transport and Society at UWE Bristol.The appointment bridges between academia and practice and Glenn is dividing his time between the university and Mott MacDonald (on secondment). At a time of significance for the transport sector, the position aims to co-develop and extend transport expertise in relation to understanding and responding to a changing and uncertain mobility landscape, which is shaped by technological possibilities and societal needs and preferences. Glenn has undertaken a number of significant roles during his career in relation to examining future mobility in the face of uncertainty, including: Director of the Transport Visions Network; one of two specialist social research advisors to the Foresight project ‘Intelligent Infrastructure Systems’; and Strategy Director at the New Zealand Ministry of Transport leading the ‘Future Demand’ project. He was a Trustee of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (20••••20) and is a Trustee of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund. He is also a member of the Department for Transport’s Joint Analysis Development Panel.

Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Civil Engineering

Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Driver behaviour and artificial intelligence