FREE Hybrid Event: AET Transport Forum - 5 March
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 | FREE Hybrid event: 5 March 2026 13:00-14:30 GMT / 14.00-15.30 CETOnline, or in-person at City of London Corporation |
Refocusing appraisal: Insights from practice and new methods from urban economics
The next TMF hybrid event will take place on Thursday March 5th 2026, in person at the City of London Corporation offices and online. Hosted by Ola Faleti from the TMF Working Group and chaired by Charlene Rohr, Technical Director in the Mott MacDonald Futures Team, it will include presentations by Andy Meaney, Partner and Head of Transport at Oxera Consulting LLP, and Dr Daniel Hörcher, Senior Research Associate, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies.
The discussion will address the purpose and process of appraisal, and how to avoid making Type I (a scheme or intervention not going ahead when it should have done) and Type II (a poor scheme proceeding when it should not have done) errors.
Our presenters will then provide insights into a new approach: the adaptation of quantitative urban models to transport appraisal. This model framework has attracted considerable attention in urban economics over the past decade and provides a robust means of quantifying the spatial reorganisation of economic activity following transformative schemes, along with the associated wider economic impacts.
The presentations will highlight how lessons from past practice and new methods can make appraisal more relevant to government’s big decisions on transport schemes and policies.
This event is brought to you in collaboration with the City of London Corporation and Oxera Consulting LLP. Want to join us online? The AET Transport and Mobility Forum webinars are FREE to attend and are hosted on the Zoom platform. Want to join the live audience in London? We welcome everyone who is interested, to join us for FREE at the City of London Corporation. Find full booking details and register for online or in-person using the link below. |   |
Speakers’ Information
Charlene Rohr is a Technical Principal at Mott MacDonald. She is a highly experienced researcher and practitioner. Her experience sits in the intersection of travel demand modelling, travel behaviour, policy analysis and future and foresight methods. She has over thirty-five years of experience developing and applying discrete choice models to quantify traveller behaviour and preferences and has been involved in the development of models to predict travel demand, at urban, regional and national levels in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, and Australia. Her research interests also include understanding travel behaviour more widely and how transport fits within wider societal goals of health, wealth and wellbeing. Increasingly, her work is focussed on the impact of new technologies and changing societal trends on travel and in the use of futures methods to support robust planning in an environment of uncertainty. Since 2019 Charlene has been a key member of the Mott MacDonald Futures team, providing futures and foresight support to the UK Department for Transport to support more robust strategic planning. She serves on the DfT’s Joint Analysis Development Panel advising on forecasting, appraisal and modelling and previously chaired the Applied Methods Committee for the European Transport Conference. |  Mott MacDonald |
Dániel Hörcher is a transport researcher and urban economist, and a Senior Research Associate at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) at Corvinus University of Budapest. He attained his PhD in 2018 at Imperial College London, where he worked as a researcher of the Transport Strategy Centre until 2025. His core research interests are public transport economics and spatial modelling for transport appraisal. He has published 26 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals in transport research, spatial economics, and statistics. He is Co-editor of the Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing (Edward Elgar, 2023) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP). At CIAS in Budapest, Daniel is the principal investigator of a two-year research programme that applies quantitative spatial models to the cost-benefit analysis of transport improvements at a transformative scale. |  Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Budapest |
Andy Meaney is a Partner and Head of Transport at Oxera, the economics, finance, and data science consultancy. He works across the sector, applying analysis tools to help clients in Europe and further afield to understand their markets, and the impact of commercial, regulatory, and policy changes. His work has both contributed to appraisal guidance - in areas including option values, wider impacts, and freight - and also applied appraisal guidance to complex schemes and policy interventions to develop business cases, and give evidence at planning inquiries. |  Oxera |
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