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Ethics and Brain Implants in the Military [Commentary] (2017)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2017). Ethics and Brain Implants in the Military [Commentary]. IEEE technology & society magazine, 36(1), 65-68. https://doi.org/10.1109/mts.2017.2654292

Definitions are a key factor when discussing the ethics of brain implants in the military. There is a world of difference between a permanent embedded rewritable chip and an active RFID-managed interface to a nervous system.

Technology enhancement - a full role for the elderly. (2014)
Digital Artefact
Wigan, M. (2014). Technology enhancement - a full role for the elderly. [MOV]

An invited address to the University of Melbourne's Graduate House Seminar program, covering the interactions between technology and the elderly from the point of view of the regulatory and governance failures that are leading to inappropriate result... Read More about Technology enhancement - a full role for the elderly..

Consequences of big data on the individual: interview. (2013)
Digital Artefact
Wigan, M. (2013). Consequences of big data on the individual: interview. [MP3]

The speed with which data has moved from being scarce, expensive and valuable, thus justifying detailed and careful verification and analysis to a situation where the streams of detailed data are almost too large to handle has caused a series of shif... Read More about Consequences of big data on the individual: interview..

Financial anatomy of E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-project (2013)
Journal Article
Leviäkangas, P., Wigan, M., & Haapasalo, H. (2013). Financial anatomy of E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-project. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 3(2), 165-180. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-04-2012-0017

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the returns to the investors and the state in private finance of road infrastructure. It uses an empirical case of the E4 Helsinki-Lahti road, which was built in 1995-1999 in Finland as the first... Read More about Financial anatomy of E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-project.

Financial anatomy of the E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-Project. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Leviäkangas, P., Wigan, M., & Haapasalo, H. J. O. (2012). Financial anatomy of the E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-Project.

Purpose - Purpose: This paper investigates the returns to the investors and the state in private finance of road infrastructure. It uses an empirical case of the E4 Helsinki-Lahti road, which was built in 1995-1999 in Finland as the first real PPP-pr... Read More about Financial anatomy of the E4 Helsinki-Lahti shadow toll PPP-Project..

Process validation of urban freight and logistics models (2012)
Journal Article
Donnelly, R., Thompson, R. G., & Wigan, M. (2012). Process validation of urban freight and logistics models. Procedia, social and behavioral sciences, 39, 400-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.117

A number of innovative modelling approaches for the analysis of urban freight demand and its impact upon the built environment and transport infrastructure have been proposed over the past several years. These range from new and more robust synthetic... Read More about Process validation of urban freight and logistics models.

Disseminating learning. (2012)
Book Chapter
Wigan, M., & Legacy, C. (2012). Disseminating learning. In N. Low (Ed.), Transforming urban transport: the ethics, politics and practices of sustainable mobility. Routledge

Central to achieving sustainable transport are the processes of dissemination of learning and engagement with the public necessary to generate the motive force to transform transport. Dissemination has usually been considered to be a task undertaken... Read More about Disseminating learning..

The role of information contestability in evidence based policy in planning and transport. (2012)
Book Chapter
Wigan, M. (2012). The role of information contestability in evidence based policy in planning and transport. In H. Geerlings, Y. Shiftan, & D. Stead (Eds.), Transition towards sustainable mobility: the role of instruments, Individual and Institutions (217-230). Ashgate Publishing

Many of the processes of strategic planning and transport have long been based on slow changing environments where much of the operational investment could reasonably be undertaken on the basis that, if the present was well understood, the projection... Read More about The role of information contestability in evidence based policy in planning and transport..

Submission to the inquiry into potential reforms of National Security Legislation. (2012)
Working Paper
Wigan, M. Submission to the inquiry into potential reforms of National Security Legislation

Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age (2012)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2012). Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age. IEEE technology & society magazine, 31, 26-32. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2012.2185730

Checks and balances in government are always difficult to resolve, and as both societal and governmental complexity have increased, the degree to which expertise and policy reside within government has declined. The rise of evidence-based approaches... Read More about Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age.