Neal Skelton is the Head of Professional Services for ITS United Kingdom and is responsible for promoting the delivery of ITS within the UK. In this capacity he has attended at numerous events as a speaker and moderator for the same purposes as well as emphasising the benefits of relationships with other ITS organisations. Neal has held his ITS (UK) post since he retired from the Police Service as a senior police officer, however prior to his police service he was an officer in the Royal Marine Commando Forces. During his varied police career Neal Skelton served in two police forces and acquired a wide range of specialist expertise and experience including managing major events and incidents as well as counter-terrorist operations. In addition Neal Skelton was seconded to the Home Office - the UK Government Department where he was responsible for the deployment of roads policing and crime reduction technologies, including ITS.

ITS United Kingdom, the UK association for the promotion of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), is a ‘not-for-profit’ public/private sector association financed by members' subscriptions, and provides a forum for all organisations concerned with ITS. ITS (UK) works to bring the benefits that ITS can offer in terms of economic efficiency, transport safety, and environmental benefits to the United Kingdom - and at the same time expand the ITS market. The membership, over 150 UK organisations, comprises Government Departments, Local Authorities, Police Forces, consultants, manufacturing and service companies, and academic and research institutions.





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Norman Baker has been MP for Lewes since 1997 and has established a reputation as one of the most dogged and persistent parliamentary interrogators the modern House of Commons has known.
Born in Aberdeen, Norman moved to Hornchurch in Essex in 1968 and was educated at the Royal Liberty School, Gidea Park, before taking a degree in German (and being elected three times to run one of the college bars) at Royal Holloway College, University of London.
In 1991 he led the Liberal Democrats to victory on Lewes District Council, becoming that council’s first ever Lib Dem leader. He contested the Lewes parliamentary constituency in 1992, and at his second attempt in 1997 succeeded in becoming the seat’s first non-Conservative MP since 1874, overturning a Tory majority of over 12,000.
He joined the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet in October 2002 as Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, and from 2005 until 2006 as Shadow Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Secretary. In 2007 Norman rejoined the Lib Dem Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
In December 2007 Norman was promoted and appointed Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Transport by the new party leader, Nick Clegg. This has allowed Norman to continue with his environmental interests by campaigning for better and greener public transport.


Presentation: How technology can revolutionise local and regional transport systems

The vision to implement innovative technologies to benefit public transport in all areas.

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Stuart Murray has been the Integrated Social Needs Transport Project Manager for Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive since 2006. His interest in transport stems from community and youth work in both the statutory and voluntary sectors over 30 years. His most recent post before joining GMPTE was as the Chief Executive of Age Concern Wigan Borough, where the specific issues of mobility for older people became a particular area of interest. His MA in Gerontology studies, completed in 2009, included research into the impact of the decisions made by older people to cease or to reduce driving. The Improving Connectivity and Mobility Access (ICMA) Project, funded as part of the Interreg IVB Programme for North West Europe, is concerned with improving connectivity through a specific focus on the 'first and last miles' of journeys.

Presentation: IT as a main tool in delivering Demand Responsive Transport

How technology can be used as part of a 'Improving Connectivity and Mobility Access' project concerned with the effectiveness and efficiency of the 'first and last miles' of a journey

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Geoff is the Sales & Marketing Director for SCS, responsible for all permanent route management solutions and temporary roadworks schemes, where SPECS has been used to provide both safer and smoother traffic flows. Geoff has been involved in the design, implementation and monitoring of over 100 such schemes, giving an unrivalled understanding of the factors behind the successful operation of an average speed enforcement scheme.
Geoff joined SCS in 2004, following ten years in the machine vision industry. He graduated from Nottingham University in 1991, is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IET, IHT and AIRSO.
During the five years Geoff has worked with SCS, the Average Speed market has developed from a little-utilised, quirky solution to a widely implemented, well understood casualty reduction and traffic management tool.


Presentation: Average speed enforcement – how should we measure success?

SPECS average speed cameras have been operated around the UK for over 10 years. It is now widely accepted that they have a positive impact on driver behaviour, but what is the best way to quantify the benefits that this imparts? The presentation will cover the observed benefits, in terms of casualty reduction, lower congestion, environmental improvements and public acceptability. The newly approved SPECS3 system will also be discussed, demonstrating how technological improvements can further enhance the impact of average speed enforcement in a wide variety of applications.

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Michèle Dix joined TfL in 2000 as Director of Congestion Charging on a job-share basis with Malcolm Murray-Clark. Michèle started her career at the GLC after her PhD and became a chartered civil engineer through the GLC’s transport planning graduate scheme. She later went onto work for Halcrow Fox where she became a board director responsible for urban transport planning. Following 10 years in the private sector working on a range of studies Michèle, alongside Malcolm Murray-Clark joined TfL, as Directors’ of Congestion Charging, responsible for the design, implementation and application of London’s Congestion Charging scheme. In June 2007, they were promoted to Managing Directors, Planning. They are responsible for leading TfL’s strategic thinking on the future transport needs of London, testing and challenging solutions, providing clear direction on appropriate transport solutions for the future; coordinating the implementation of local plans and partnerships with the Boroughs; and developing major multi-modal scheme interchanges and initiatives.


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Ashwin Kumar heads up the watchdog’s Passenger Link team which is responsible for liaising with train operating companies, Network Rail, stakeholders and the media to achieve improvements for passengers. He also manages the Manchester-based Passenger Advice team, which takes up complaints on behalf of passengers dissatisfied with their train company’s response.

Ashwin joined Passenger Focus in late 2007 after working as an economist at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), where he was based for nine years. At the DWP he was responsible for building the UK’s model for predicting future pensioner incomes and most recently led research and analysis on housing benefit. He has also worked previously as a press officer at the National Criminal Intelligence Service.




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Dr Erel Avineri is a Reader in Travel Behaviour at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) and a member of Centre for Transport & Society (CTS) since 2004. He received his degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management (B.Sc.) and Transportation Sciences (M.Sc., Ph.D.) from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Dr Avineri has been a project manager and a consultant to more than 50 top leading companies and government agencies in the areas of transport modelling, logistics and operations management.
Applying behavioural economics and cognitive psychology, his research explores what influences our travel behaviour, how to predict it, and how to design measures to change travel behaviour. His is to co-author of more than 100 journal papers, book chapters and reports. In his recent studies he explores issues such as:
travellers’ bounded rationality;
behavioural responses to ITS;
the effect of feedback mechanism on travellers' decision-making;
How to incorporate 'behavioural' and 'social' features in the design of Advanced Traveller Information Systems (ATIS); and
the use of ‘nudges’ to help individuals to highlight the better choices for them - without restricting their freedom of choice.




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Stephen Glaister CBE FICE FTRF FCGI is Director of the RAC Foundation and Emeritus Professor of Transport and Infrastructure at Imperial College London.
He was a member of the Board of Transport for London 2000 to 2008 and a non-executive director of London Regional Transport from 1984 until 1993. In 2009 he became Partnership Director of Tube Lines.
He was a member of the Steering Group for the Department for Transport’s 2004 National Road Pricing Feasibility Study and is a member of the "Friends" group advising Sir Rod Eddington on his Transport Study. He was a member of the External Challenge Group for High Speed 2 (HS2).
Between 1993 and spring 2001 he was an economic advisor to the Rail Regulator.
He was a member of the Government's first Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment and he has been Specialist Advisor to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport and an advisor to the Commission for Integrated Transport.
He has published widely on transport policy and also on regulation in the telecommunications, water and gas industries. He is the principal author of a series of three recent studies into national road pricing for the Independent Transport Commission and a co-author of the RAC Foundation study on road investment and pricing strategy for the next 35 years.




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