Growing A Garden City for Smarter Growth: A Transport Workshop to Model and Learn from Oxfordshire

In November 2014, a workshop was held at Keble College, Oxford to bring together researchers and research users with an interest in the future development of Oxfordshire. 

The conference was chaired by Dr Nicholas Falk and four leading thinkers illustrated key transport research findings including:

i) The Housing Crisis in Oxford - the need for expansion and development

Professor Danny Dorling - Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford

ii) Developing a Spatial Growth and Investment Strategy for Oxfordshire

 Bev Hindle - Deputy Director: Strategy, Infrastructure and Planning, Oxfordshire County Council

 iii) Urban Rapid Transit - the economic impacts of Light Rail Transit

 Dr Fiona Ferbrache - Visiting Research Associate, Transport Studies Unit, Oxford.

 iv)  Funding Infrastructure through Land Value Uplift

 Pete Redman - Managing Director Policy and Research, TradeRisks Ltd

A report which was produced to summarise the event is available under downloads >