Building a Collaborative Transport Future: Visualising 2050 | Interview with Bart Treece

Bart Treece is the director of the interdisciplinary Mobility Innovation Center at the University of Washington, where he leads applied research projects that tackle near-term and emerging transportation challenges.

What you’ll learn:

• Why data needs to be personal. If you want someone to care about something, we need to explain and visualise the value in a way that is personally meaningful to their life.

• How Washington State is preparing for nearly two million new residents. Bart explains the pressures this growth brings to housing transport mobility and quality of life and how the 2050 scenarios help guide decision making.

• What it takes to bring siloed datasets together. Learn why the Transport 2050 project exists, how combining scattered public datasets can reveal a previously hidden bigger picture, and what cross-sector collaboration looks like behind the scenes.

• How to plan for a future that is uncertain. How agencies can avoid picking a single path and instead prepare for multiple possible futures while protecting quality of life and shared goals.