The CoMoUK 2024 Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 12 December from 10:00 - 11.30am.
As well as carrying out the formal business of the meeting, there was a chance to hear an update on the work of CoMoUK over the previous year.
The seminar brought together practitioners and policy makers of shared transport in Scotland and was funded by Smarter Choices Smarter Places.
CoMoUK will presented latest insight into a range of shared modes such as car share, bike share, e-scooter share andcommunity transport. We also publicised our first report on DDRT use inScotland.
The seminar will brought particpants up to date with groundbreaking research in the sector and gave them he opportunity to share their knowledge with stakeholders across Scotland’s shared transport community
CoMoUK and TfWM hosted a roadshow at one of the UK's first mobility hubs in Halesowen. We are grateful to Trueform for sponsoring this event.
After lunch and networking, the session began with presentations from CoMoUK on UK hub development. This was followed by Andy Page from TfWM sharing details on the pilot hubs and Rob Davies from Trueform speaking about providing the signage and infrastructure at these hubs. Finally we heard the local perspective from Kes Sleeman of Black Country Transport. Following the presentations there was a chance to join guided tours to see the new mobility hubs. There was also a chance to try out of a range of operators shared bikes, e-scooters and car club cars.
This Shared Transport Webinar focused on success factors for car clubs. This event was only open to members and authorities
Agenda
• Introduction - Richard Dilks, Chief Executive, CoMoUK
• Car club annual research results - Patrick Utz, Research Manager, CoMoUK
• The ingredients of successful car clubs – invited accredited car club operators
• Questions and discussion
CoMoUK hosts bi-monthly Shared Transport Webinars for associate and operator member and intersted local authorities. On this occasion we focused on developments in bike sharing.
The AGM was our annual opportunity to gather members and stakeholders together to reflect on the past year of CoMoUK's work. We showcased the range of activities CoMoUK carry out, from producing research to creating new guidance documents and from supporting new schemes to taking up key opportunities to raise the profile of shared transport. In addition the event carried out the formal business required of the AGM.
This year’s Shared Transport Conference from CoMoUK, the only one of its kind in the UK, was held online on 5 December 2023.
For further details of the schedule, speakers, sponsors and to find replays of the sessions, please visit our conference webpage.
We co-hosted a Shared Transport Roadshow with Transport for Greater Manchester at the University of Salford, Peel Park Campus on Wednesday 28th June.
We held our second shared transport networking afternoon on March 9th in Edinburgh.
We heard from a range of speakers who discussed both low emission zones and shared transport options for residents in Edinburgh.
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We heard from a range of speakers who discussed both low emission zones and shared transport options for residents in Glasgow.
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Our AGM was held online, at 10am on Wednesday 14 December.
This was our annual opportunity to gather members and stakeholders to reflect on the past year of CoMoUK's work. We showcased the range of activities carried out, from producing research to creating new guidance documents, from supporting new schemes to taking up key opportunities to raise the profile of shared transport.
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This year’s Shared Transport Conference from CoMoUK, the only one of its kind in the UK, was held online on 7 & 8 December 2022.
For further details of the schedule, speakers, sponsors and to find replays of the sessions, please visit our conference webpage.
Across the UK, new developments are being designed, consented, and built out with underpowered and inconsistent approaches to the important role shared transport can play in delivering sustainability. In this context, the panel engaged with the issues raised in CoMoUK’s new report ‘New developments and shared transport: cutting car dependency’ (link below) discussing ways that we can encourage built-environment stakeholders to implement shared transport offerings in new developments and the reasons for doing so.
The event was a roundtable format with four expert contributors discussing the key topics raised in the CoMoUK report. After each topic was debated by the panel, we invited audience questions and comments for the panel’s response.
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In response to Transport Scotland’s new draft vision for the public EV charging infrastructure, we explored what is needed for electric shared transport to thrive in Scotland.
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As well as hearing their perspective on the current draft, its opportunities and challenges, we also shared what we view to be crucial to an electrified future that embraces 20 minute neighbourhoods, a 20% reduction in private car kilometres and a just transition to net zero.
The latest Scottish Forum was on the National Planning Framework 4 as the consultation nears its end in March 2022.
We looked at the issues raised for shared transport within NPF4 and the future challenges within the sector in a planning context.
We also covered the extent of NPF4 and how it applies to the future of shared transport; community planning for shared transport in an NPF4 world; hearing directly from those involved in the planning processes on how the changes will prove impactful in how people move about and leave the car behind.
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Our annual opportunity to gather members and shine a light on the work of CoMoUK. We showcased the range of activities carried out with your support, from the creation of new guidance documents, to carrying out vital research, and from supporting new schemes to taking up key opportunities to raise the profile of shared mobility.
As well as looking back, we invited discussion about how CoMoUK can do more in the future. We also covered core AGM business. Full agenda details:
The 2021 conference took place online for a second year. We had sessions at the cutting edge of bike, car, e-scooter, lift share and DDRT as it interacts with the need for a green recovery; decarbonisation; the built environment and health.
We delved into all the shared modes and sustainable transport more broadly after the extraordinary impacts of Covid-19 and in the year that the UK hosts COP26.
Find replays and information about all sessions on the conference webpage here.
With Scottish Government’s ambitious target, shared transport – whether used exclusively, or alongside these other forms – can play a key role in helping businesses work towards achieving net zero.
In this event we explore the landscape that is shared transport and heard from those who have already benefitted from embracing car clubs, lift sharing and other modes, to create lasting and impactful change to their organisations.
This forum was aimed at groups in Scotland keen to set up a bike share project and learn from others about how to do it. We welcomed speakers from two community bike share projects, three funders (Cycling Scotland, Energy Saving Trust and Paths for All) and Community Shares Scotland.
This webinar was aimed at local authorities, policy makers and all who are interested in learning more about the opportunities for Scotland from moving to flexible on-demand transport. We heard from a range of on-demand transport operators about the range of services they offer and hear about some examples of successful schemes happening across the UK and Europe.
This webinar focussed on the future of planning in Scotland and how shared transport can help deliver the key outcomes of the NPF4: net zero emissions, resilient communities, a wellbeing economy and greener, better places. We took an in-depth look at the role of shared transport and mobility hubs and their positive contribution to the Scottish Government’s 20-minute neighbourhoods strategy and looked at some of the cutting edge plans being developed here in Scotland.
The event was aimed at planners, developers, architects, landscape architects, academics and related practitioners and organisations. This was reflected in our speakers, representing planning, urban design.
We held a session on future rural mobility, in light of the Government call for evidence on this, which closed 16th February 2021.
Held with our partners at WSP, we heard the latest findings on thoughts around successful business models for mobility hubs and discussed the application of them in workshop groups.
Our third webinar in the Scotland Co-mobility series where we tried to answer key questions around setting up a bike share scheme in Scotland.
Are you a community group in Scotland keen to share a fleet of bikes for the use of your community? Do you have a thousand questions about how to do this, for example how to get started? How to share the bikes? How to promote the scheme? What does success look like?
Our second webinar in the Scotland Co-mobility series ‘Pedalling a Green Recovery’ where we will explored how we can unlock the potential of bike share in Scotland and gave a snap shot of the different types of schemes providing healthy, affordable and low carbon forms of travel in communities across the country.
Our series of webinars continues with speakers from Scotland and The Netherlands discussing setting up Mobility Hubs in rural areas of Scotland.
