Ryan FALCONER

Biographical note
Dr Ryan Falconer leads Transportation Consulting for Arup Canada. He also manages Arup Canada’s Cities business. Ryan has background in consulting, the public sector and academia, and spends a lot of time researching cutting edge practice. His work history includes completion of the transport sustainability and health component of the Residential Environments Project conducted in Western Australia, a longitudinal study of neighbourhood-level influences on public health.

Presentation: Emerging technologies and their potential influences on healthy journeys
There is vigorous discourse in industry, politics and the media regarding the future of mobility with great conjecture regarding what the impacts of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and mobility-as-a-service will be and when they may be expected. Transit supply and operations are likely to be influenced significantly by these technologies with consequent impacts on trip choices and overall journeys involving active transport components. This presentation will explore what some of these impacts might be and their corresponding impacts on public health.