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Speaker Biographies from the 3rd Annual Forum
Tom van Vuren, Divisional Director, Mott MacDonald
Tom van Vuren has been involved in transport planning since the mid-eighties, first in the Netherlands and then in the UK and wider afield. Having worked both in academia and in consultancy, he specialises in bridging the gap between what is theoretically desirable and practically feasible. Tom operates mainly in transport modelling and forecasting, for a client base involving local authorities, the Highways Agency and the Department for Transport. He has been involved in the support of transport appraisal guidance through work on convergence, peak spreading, and the quantification of noise impacts and social exclusion.
His experience in the application of NATA is mainly focused around the PRISM model, which has been used extensively for policy support in the West Midlands. Applications include road user charging, traditional and advanced highway interventions, and public transport schemes. Tom has directed two studies that have investigated and developed methods to quantify reliability, based on real-life observations and modelling techniques.
Recently Tom has carried out Peer Reviews of multi-modal models in e.g. Dubai, Thailand and Abu Dhabi, and has applied the NATA concepts in an international environment. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Transport Studies of the University of Leeds.
Ian Emslie, Head of Consulting, Legion
Ian heads Legion’s consulting team, having joined the company in August 2003, initially as product manager, before moving into their consulting team. He has over 15 years’ experience in transport planning and pedestrian modelling, and holds a BSc Civil Eng degree from the University of Natal. He also studied Traffic and Transportation Engineering at postgraduate level at Stellenbosch University.
Ian joined Legion from Scott Wilson, where he worked as a project manager on key pedestrian assessments and modelling studies for UK clients including London Underground and Network Rail. His extensive experience in conducting pedestrian capacity assessments and using pedestrian simulation tools has proven invaluable in the development of Legion’s products and in providing consulting support to Legion’s clients and partners. He is a member of the London Olympic Delivery Authority’s Crowd Movement Group, providing pedestrian planning and modelling advice for the 2012 Games.
Before relocating to the UK, Ian spent 5 years as a research engineer with the Division for Roads and Transport Technology (CSIR) in his native South Africa. His main areas of responsibility were conducting research into road safety and public transport initiatives, with a particular focus on developing standards and guidelines for the design and operation of multi-modal transport interchanges.
Stephen Joseph, Executive Director, Campaign for Better Transport
Stephen Joseph has been executive director of Campaign for Better Transport since 1988. – where, until September 2007, the organisation was known as Transport 2000. Previously Stephen worked for a range of environmental and voluntary organisations in the UK and abroad, including the British Youth Council, the Civic Trust and the Town & Country Planning Association.
At Better Transport, he has written or co-authored many publications and has been involved in promoting policies to give priority to public transport, walking and cycling and to reduce road building and dependence on cars and lorries.
He was awarded the OBE in 1996 for services to transport and the environment. He was a member of the Commission for Integrated Transport from 1999-2005, having been one of the panel of external advisers on the Transport White Paper 1997-8, and was a member of the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment (SACTRA) during its inquiry on Transport and the Economy. He was also on the steering group for the Government’s Road User Charging Feasibility Study 2003-4. In July 2004 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the National Transport Awards.
Derek Halden, Consultant, Derek Halden Consultancy Ltd
Derek has twenty six years of experience of transport planning and project development working within research, consultancy, central government and local government. He contributed to many transport modelling projects with consultancies in the 1980s. Whilst at the Scottish Office in the early 1990s he played a key role in using evidence from transport models to help develop national transport policy from a list of road and rail projects to a more integrated policy framework.
Derek set up his own consultancy practice in 1996 (DHC) and the firm specialises in building bridges between people, places, policies, and ideas. The practice has grown and has led the development of accessibility planning approaches in the UK including major projects for DfT from 2003 to date. Derek is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and a Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport.
Alan Kerr, Modelling and Standards Manager, London Underground
Alan Kerr is Modelling and Standards Manager for London Underground. He leads a team of transport planners providing an internal consultancy and modelling service to the rest of the organisation.
Alan has broad public and private sector experience having worked in consultancy for five years before moving to the Crossrail client team and then London Underground. His particular expertise is in crowd flow modelling as well as station and interchange planning, but is also experienced in demand forecasting and modelling, congestion charging appraisal, development planning and journey time variability research.
Recently Alan has overseen the development of a Legion modelling capability within London Underground. This has enabled a much greater understanding of the behaviour of customers within stations.
William McDougall, Transport Planning Leader, SKM London, Sinclair Knight Merz
William McDougall is a Principal of Sinclair Knight Merz and has recently returned to the UK from Australia to lead SKM’s transport team in the London office. He is a transport planner and engineer with over 30 years’ experience across all forms of transport. He has particular experience in sustainable transport, policy and strategy development, transport modelling and public transport planning/operations. Recent projects in Australia include:
1) Developing the Victorian strategy and business case for accessible public transport (DDA)
2) Strategic advice on transport policy to the Victorian Department of Infrastructure
3) Melbourne Northern Central City Corridor Study (NCCCS)
4) Tram Plan, a strategy plan for the future of Melbourne’s tram system over 25-30 years
5) Advice to Victorian Department of Infrastructure on TravelSMART behavioural change program
6) Melbourne metropolitan rail patronage forecasts (project director)
7) Victorian regional fast rail patronage modelling (project director)
8) Commonwealth Games spectator crowd pedestrian simulation modelling (project director).
William has worked extensively throughout Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane) as well as in Asia and the UK.
Andrew Gordon, Senior Project Manager, MottMacDonald
Andrew Gordon is a Senior Project Manager with Mott MacDonald with over 15 years’ experience in transport modelling, economics and research. He completed a PhD in transport modelling at the University of Leeds while working at TRL, before joining Mott MacDonald in 1999.
After starting work with highway assignment models Andrew moved into demand modelling and currently leads the development of the DIADEM variable demand modelling software for the Department for Transport. He is also involved with the TUBA economic appraisal software, including providing training courses and other support.
Andrew first started looking into modelling journey time reliability in 2001 as part of a project for the Department for Transport, and has been involved in the area ever since.
Ying Jin, Technical Director, WSP
Ying is a modeller with a strong track record in calibrating land use, transport and spatial economic models and then applying them in policy assessment for Central, regional and local governments. Since completing his PhD at Cambridge University in 1990, he has taken part in major transport policy and research projects in the UK, China, Italy, South America and for the European Commission. He led the technical development of a number of strategic policy models, of which the PTOLEMY model is the most recent. His work of the past decade has been focused in particular on interpreting model results in policy analysis and appraisal. His spatial economic modelling work has also contributed to strategic freight demand forecasting and national level freight strategy. He is currently managing a research project for the Department for Transport on the modelling of Smarter Choices.
David Nock, Highways Agency
Coming soon
Thomas Friderich, Director of Sales and Marketing, PTV Vision
Thomas Friderich has been involved in transportation planning since the mid-nineties. After finishing his Master Degree in applied mathematics with emphasis on transportation planning at the University of Karlsruhe focusing on theory and application of micro-simulation, he worked four years working in Switzerland. In 2002 Thomas joined PTV as assistant to the head of development of the macroscopic simulation tool VISUM. This also involved a number of project like creating a common data model for traffic related data in Bavaria, building National transport model for Germany as well as a Roadwork information system in the City of Leipzig for the FIFA World Cup in Germany.
In 2005 he took over the responsibility for the market development of PTV Vision and is now Director for Sales and Marketing for this software package. His regional focus is the UK and the Middle East, with a global view on PTV’s business development of.
Martin Fellendorf, Professor, University of Graz
Coming soon
Peter Davidson, Managaing Director, Peter Davidson Consultancy
MSc CEng MICE Eur Ing MBCS MRS
MSc Transportation Planning
BSc Civil Engineering
Affiliations
Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, European Engineer
Chartered Information Systems Practitioner, Member of the British Computer Society
Member of the Market Research Society
Summary
Peter is a Chartered Civil Engineer with 35 years experience in Transport Modelling, Transport Planning and Civil Engineering. He is an international expert in transport modelling, stated and revealed preference who has been instrumental in developing new transport modelling techniques. He is a computing expert, especially in developing new transport modelling software. He is a transport market researcher especially for the complex research needed to measure the behavioural responses required for developing complex models of people’s travel choice making behaviour.
After extensive experience in the UK and overseas with consultancies and the public sector prior to 1988, Peter then formed his own consultancy Peter Davidson Consultancy to specialise in transport planning and modelling. He has undertaken over 200 transport planning and modelling projects since 1988 and is currently developing innovatory transport models for Cheshire, London, Gloucestershire and Ashford. As a specialist in modelling he has an especially keen eye for developing new transport measures, which will actually work in practice. His innovations such as the variance-weighting data merging used for matrix building embodied in DfT’s ERICA matrix building software, stated and revealed preference studies, his Visual Transport Modeller (Visual-tm) software, activity based modelling and more recently his innovations in modelling parking using an activity based modelling approach have helped keep the consultancies core business at the forefront of innovation.
Michael Florian, President, INRO
Michael Florian is President of INRO and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal. He holds a Dr.Eng.Sc degree from Columbia University. He has published more than 150 technical papers in the field of network optimization and transportation planning models and related theory. He has acted as Associate Editor of several journals including Operations Research, Transportation Science and Transportation Research. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Science, Transport Policy and Transportmetrica. He has received several awards including the Robert Herman lifetime achievement award of the Transportation Science Section of INFORMS and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
John Morris, Manager, International Marketing Omnitrans
John is responsible for international marketing, sales and business development for Omnitrans International. He is a transport planner with almost 20 years experience in the application of transport models for strategic planning, demand forecasting and evaluation of infrastructure investment for private and public sector clients in Australia and around the world.
John understands the needs of a diverse global community of modellers, building partnerships with leading developers and practitioners in the field, to ensure that OmniTRANS offers a truly international approach to modelling, listening to and supporting clients in all parts of the world.
Tor Vorraa, Regional Director, Citilabs
MSc from NTH, Norwegian University of Technology (now NTNU), Trondheim, 1983 Tor has been involved in transport planning and modelling since 1984 and has worked for companies in Norway, Germany and UK. Since 2001 with Citilabs, the result of a merger between MVA’s TRIPS division and the US based Urban Analysis Group.
Tor is the Citilabs Regional Director for UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Australia/NZ.
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