Thread by @jonworth

I have a slightly strange question

Who are the best public intellectuals in the area of greening our transport systems in Europe?

Please tweet me your best names, and I will explain why I need them in the thread

The question comes from a demoralising conversation I had today with an EU official about the best means to decarbonise transport

The official in question is a clever person, but had no intellectual framework into which he could fit policy decisions

It strikes me that on energy transition there are some people like @MLiebreich who play this role. In the way we green our cities there are people like @BrentToderian or @_dmoser. At a national level @kkklawitter is doing excellent work, but with focus on Germany

But who or what is an EU official reading?

Who are the people amassing all the stats, trends, data and packaging that in a way that's intellectually coherent, but also digestible?

(In my other area of work - Brexit - it's overflowing with these sorts of people. Lawyers, trade people, economists, people from business who have intellectual coherence and package this for politics)

It feels that what I am doing about cross border railways in Europe is in a more or less complete political vacuum

Sure, I know an immense community of railway nerds. But they're not public intellectuals?

Where are those people?

/ends

P.S. And I should also have listed @giulio_mattioli who is ace. And in Brussels there is @transenv who do excellent research, but I find it somehow very bitty somehow, lacking an overall framework.