17/06/2025
"When you grow up surrounded by complex transport challenges, something remarkable happens, you adapt, you innovate, you transform, it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle. The more challenges you face, the stronger your capacity becomes. And once the resources align with that readiness, change can happen rapidly, and often, positively.”
That’s what happened to Daniel Oviedo, Associate Professor in Urban Transport and Development Planning at the Development Planning Unit of University College London. From Bogotá’s streets to global impact, his journey as a civil engineer and development planner has been driven by one simple truth: the more problems a city faces, the faster its people learn to solve them. Now, with over 14 years advising governments from Colombia to Nigeria, Daniel sees firsthand how innovation, equity, and urgency can transform mobility in the Global South, sometimes faster than in cities with thousand years of history like London.
From foreign-trained minds stepping into public roles to rapid changes in urban transport, from hybrid fleets to walking cities, the future is already moving.
How do we make moving through a city work for everyone? Do we invest in more, or do we invest in better? And when the world is changing fast, how do we make sure no one gets left behind on the road or in life?
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