Modelling tomorrow's world

'Times are changing,' says Hugh Neffendorf, founder, Katalysis Limited, and one of the programme directors for the Transport Systems Catapult-organised Modelling Tomorrow's World. Our models need to change too, he says. 'We need to ask whether many of the models we use today are fit for purpose in terms of modelling for a very different future...'

Hugh Neffendorf
14 October 2016
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The models we use today, says Neffendorf, in conversation with Modelling World programme director Juliana O'Rourke, tend to be based on how people behave today, or are projections from trends, or from cross-sectional analysis of people's current behaviour. But the disruptions that the transport sector is facing, and the dramatic changes in society, technology and information, mean that these no longer hold true.

'We must think about what is changing, and how we get to where we need to be....

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