Lectures & Debates

Since the 1990s, the Carmen have mounted major lectures with the Royal Society of Arts.

The Great Hall, Royal Society of Arts, London

1992: Transport in Society by Rees Professor of Road Transport Engineering, University of London, Carman Tony Ridley.

1994: Freedom of Movement and Movement in Freedom by Rt Hon John Gummer MP, Secretary of State for the Environment.

1996: Urban Thrombosis: the urban transit problem, needs and solutions by Jack Short, Deputy Secretary-General, European Conference of Ministers of Transport.

1998: Transport: Then, Now and Tomorrow by Dr Ralph Harrington, Transport History Research Trust Lecturer, Inst of Railway Studies, University of York.

2000: Tomorrow's Transport by Peter Stevens, Visiting Professor, Vehicle Design, Royal College of Art and Professor Michael MacDonald, Southampton University.

In 2003 the first of the new lecture series will be Maximum Mobility - The Smart Answer

In 2002 the Company, together with the Worshipful Company of Fuellers, staged their first national debate, on the motion Cars Kill Cities.

'This house believes that Cars Kill Cities'

2003: Maximum Mobility - the Smart Answer by Prof Stephen Glaister, Dr Washington Ocheing and Stephen Foster

In 2004 Carmen arranged the Urban Flow Seminar

2005: The Inconvenient Society - consumerism and transport with Kristine Beuret, George Hazei, Prof John Whitelegg and John Guttridge