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Moving Cities: the Future of Urban Travel a Moving Cities: The future of urban travel Edited by: Glaister & Box December 2014 b The Royal Automobile Club Foundation for Motoring Ltd is a transport policy and research organisation which explores the economic, mobility, safety and environmental issues relating to roads and their users. The Foundation publishes independent and authoritative research with which it promotes informed debate and advocates policy in the interest of the responsible motorist. RAC Foundation 89–91 Pall Mall London SW1Y 5HS Tel no: 020 7747 3445 www.racfoundation.org Registered Charity No. 1002705 December 2014 © Copyright Royal Automobile Club Foundation for Motoring Ltd c Moving Cities: The future of urban travel Edited by: Glaister & Box December 2014 i About the authors David Bayliss David Bayliss is a chartered engineer and town planner. He started his career with Manchester Corporation and then moved to the Greater London Council where he became Chief Transport Planner. Subsequently, as Director of Planning for London Transport, he was involved in planning the Docklands Light Railway, the Jubilee Line Extension and Croydon Tramlink. On retirement from London Transport in 1999 he was a director of Halcrow Consulting for the following ten years. During his career he been involved in almost all aspects of domestic transport and has been an advisor to a number of international organisations and overseas governments. He has written and lectured widely and is currently a trustee of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund and of the RAC Foundation. John Dales, Urban Movement John is Director of Urban Movement, a consultancy specialising in transport planning and the design of urban streets and spaces. With an MSc in Transport from Imperial College/University College London, he began life as a transport professional in 1984, working first as a traffic engineer for JMP Consultants, and next for the London Borough of Newham. He joined urban design consultancy Urban Initiatives in 1996, and established Urban Movement at the start of 2010. His work over the past decade has focused on two related fields of endeavour: the access and movement aspects of complex urban development projects; and the detailed design of multi-functional, accessible and safe streets and spaces in urban centres and around stations. John is a streets design advisor to several UK local authorities, a trustee of Living Streets, and author of the monthly ‘Street Talk’ column in Local Transport Today. Garrett Emmerson, Transport for London Garrett Emmerson is Chief Operating Officer for Surface Transport, at Transport for London. He is responsible for the operation of the capital’s major road network; traffic signals across London; congestion charging and traffic enforcement and the operation of the Surface Transport and Traffic Control Centre. Garrett is also responsible for surface transport infrastructure asset management and implementation of TfL’s £4bn road investment programme, as well as modal service operations including: Barclays Cycle Hire; taxi and private hire regulation; river and coach services and London Dial-a-Ride. ii Garrett was previously TfL’s Director of Strategy and, before that, a director of transport consultancy Steer Davies Gleave. He is a former Head of Buckinghamshire County Council’s Transportation Service and a former Member of the Government Commission for Integrated Transport. He is currently member of the Government’s Motorists’ Forum advisory body on national roads policy. Ford Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Michigan in the United States, manufactures and distributes automobiles across six continents. With around 166,000 employees and 77 office and plant locations around the world, Ford Motor Company is focused on creating a strong business that builds great products that contribute to a better world. The company also provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. Dale Harrow, Royal College of Art Professor Dale Harrow is dean of the School of Design and head of its Vehicle Design programme, a global centre of excellence in automotive design education. With a near 100 per cent record in student transition to professional practice, Vehicle Design was shortlisted for the Queen’s Award for Excellence in Education. Harrow is an international opinion former, commentator and media persona on design and the automotive industry. He is an award-winning designer, academic leader and researcher. Always keen to raise the intellectual debate about vehicle design, Harrow has lectured internationally on the subject. John Miles, Cambridge University John Miles is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and is Chair of the Automotive Council’s Working Group on Intelligent Mobility. Formerly a Main Board Director at Arup Group, he took up his role at Cambridge University in January 2012 with the intention of exploring affordable, low carbon, energy technologies and business models. Since his appointment at Cambridge, John has been particularly active in the field of low carbon transport. He has been a prime contributor to the Mitsui- Arup electric bus fleet demonstration programme in Milton Keynes, in which the UK’s first demonstration of a bus service using wireless charging has been launched. He is also Programme Architect for LUTZ (low carbon urban transport zone), an industry / local authority collaboration programme which has been set-up to explore the potential for using Low-Speed Autonomous iii Transport Systems (L-SATS) for city-centre public transport. In his wider role as Chair of the Automotive Council’s Intelligent Mobility Working Group, John has been active in working with BIS and DfT over the past few years to secure recognition for the UK as a world leader in the design and development of intelligent systems for transport. Philip Pank Philip Pank is an award-winning writer, journalist and commentator in the fields of transport, international affairs and business. He was Transport Correspondent and Assistant Foreign Editor for The Times newspaper and previously worked for The Guardian and Agence France-Presse news agency. He received the ‘best media campaign of the year’ award at the National Transport Awards 2012 for his work on the Cities fit for cycling newspaper campaign. Timothy Papandreou, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Timothy is a recognized expert, change agent and leader with over 18 years of experience in transportation and land-use planning, design, project management and operations in the U.S. and Australia. He is currently the Director of Strategic Planning & Policy for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The SFMTA manages and coordinates all the modes of transportation (including parking and street enforcement) in the City. Timothy has an undergraduate degree in applied science (urban and regional economic planning) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and California Polytechnic University and a master of arts (Transportation Planning) from the University of California, Los Angeles. John Polak, Imperial College London Professor John Polak is the Chairman of the Centre for Transport Studies and the Director of Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, both at Imperial College London. He is a past President of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research and a past Council Member of the Association for European Transport, and serves on the editorial advisory boards of a number of leading international scientific journals. iv Shashi Verma, Transport for London Shashi Verma is Director of Customer Experience at Transport for London. Shashi has responsibility for the operation of TfL’s revenue collection system including the Oyster card, the largest smartcard based ticketing system in the world, and advising the Mayor of London on fares and ticketing policy. Since his previous role of Director of Fares & Ticketing Shashi has focused on improving the performance of ticketing systems, which are now at a record high; on reducing the cost of ticketing services, achieved through an early termination of the Prestige Ticketing Services Contract; on extending the reach of Oyster on London’s national rail and river services; and on developing the next generation of fare collection solutions for London. Scott Le Vine, Imperial College London Dr Scott Le Vine is dually-appointed as an Assistant Professor (Urban Planning) at SUNY New Paltz (NY, USA) and a Research Associate in the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London. He serves on three standing committees of the USA’s National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board. He is a trustee of the charity Carplus. Christian Wolmar Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster specialising in transport and has written a series of books on railways including ‘On the Wrong Line, how ideology and incompetence wrecked Britain’s railways’, ‘Fire & Steam, a new history of Britain’s railways’, and most recently ‘To the edge of the world, the history of the Transsiberian railway’. He has also co-edited a book on financing urban transport, Urban Access for the 21st Century published by Routledge. He has written a column for Rail magazine since 1995 and frequently contributes to national newspapers such as The Guardian and The Times. Christian was a board member of Cycling England until its abolition in the spring of 2011 and was a founding trustee of the Railway Children charity. v Acknowledgements The RAC Foundation would like to thank the authors for contributing their views to this collection of essays. This report has been collated, edited and reviewed by Professor Stephen Glaister, Director and Elizabeth Box, Head of Research at the RAC Foundation. Both editors would like to thank RAC Foundation colleagues for their assistance in producing this document. Particular thanks go to Philip Gomm, Head of External Communications and Ivo Wengraf, Research & Data Manager at the RAC Foundation. Disclaimer This collection of essays has been prepared for the RAC Foundation by the authors and organisations listed. The report content reflects the views of the authors and not necessarily those of the RAC Foundation.
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