Project Endeavour

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: February at DG Cities

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The shortest month of the year has lived up to expectations and flown by at record pace. Despite the relentless nature of lockdown, time really does seem to have flown and it’s been nearly a year now since the full team was together in our Greenwich office.

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: January at DG Cities

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Urban Innovation at the Front Line: January at DG Cities

We made it through January and the first month of Lockdown 3! While this has undeniably been the toughest lockdown so far, 2021 has certainly got off to a flying start here at DG Cities and we continue to be working on a wide variety of exciting innovation projects and client work.

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Where to next with Project Endeavour user research?

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Where to next with Project Endeavour user research?

Over the coming months DG Cities will be conducting more user research as part of Project Endeavour which will look even closer at the attitudes and perceptions of the general public towards autonomous vehicles. In this blog we will explore some of the gaps we’ve identified from a literature review of academic research, and outline what’s next for Project Endeavour.

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How will citizens make the most of AV technology? The first findings from Project Endeavour

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How will citizens make the most of AV technology? The first findings from Project Endeavour

As part of Project Endeavour, DG Cities conducted an online survey with members of the public to understand their views on AVs and AV Ride-Sharing Services. We’re pleased to share the results of this survey in our Public Attitudes and Perceptions of Autonomous Vehicles and Ride-Sharing Report. This report provides a pre-COVID19 baseline of data which will enable Project Endeavour to map changing trends over time.

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Pandemic travel behaviour: designing future mobility solutions that are COVID secure

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Pandemic travel behaviour: designing future mobility solutions that are COVID secure

One of the immediate impacts of COVID-19 on urban centres has been the significant change in public transport usership as citizens have moved away from public transport into cars, onto bicycles or towards walking as a method of getting from A to B. Whilst some of these shifts may at first appear temporary there is a risk that some of the more negative modal shifts (e.g. into private cars) could linger. A negative shift in public transport attitudes and behaviours of this type could be hugely disruptive to city leaders already struggling to both meet stretching greenhouse gas emissions targets, and improve the experience of citizens who are using city roads.

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Project Endeavour: What Happens Next?

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Project Endeavour: What Happens Next?

Back in September, the DG Cities team was buzzing around the CENEX CAM event. Between presenting on panels and showcasing our projects, we certainly kept ourselves busy. We were especially excited to launch Project Endeavour at the event alongside our consortium partners Nominet, Oxbotica and Immense Simulations.

This week, our partners have been sharing some insights into the project at the Telegraph Smart Mobility Summit (where our MD, Trevor, also took part in the keynote panel on the importance of collaboration).

We’ve had a fantastic response since the launch and so now seems like the perfect opportunity to share a little more about the role of DG Cities in this exciting project.