Speaker Profiles
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This conference took place on 21st February 2006. If you would like to order copies of the speaker's slide presentations, you can still do this using the booking page here.
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Chairs and speakers include: (Click on name to jump to profile)
Profiles:
Roger Elphick, Head of Highway Management, Durham County Council
 Roger is currently responsible for the management of all traffic and transportation functions, road safety and development control, together with highway maintenance and street lighting throughout County Durham. Since graduating from the University of Newcastle, his previous experience initially covered all aspects of the design and construction of an extensive range of highway and bridge works on County Roads, Trunk Roads and Motorways. More recently he has developed an integrated package of measures to manage traffic in Durham City, including the introduction of the first Road Charging Scheme to be implemented in the UK in October 2002 and the development of three Park and Ride sites simultaneously. He has also been responsible for formulating a successful Transport Innovation Fund bid to consider future demand management in Durham City.
He is a member of the UK Road Liaison Group and Chairman of the UK Lighting Board, both established by the Department for Transport. As a member of the County Surveyors Society, he Chairs the National Street Lighting Group and Northern Soils and Materials Group as well as being a member of the Engineering Committee and is also actively involved in street works issues. Within the Institution of Highways and Transportation he is involved nationally as a member of the Network and Infrastructure Management Board and he has also been Chairman of the North Eastern Branch. He was awarded the OBE in 2002 for services to highways and transportation.
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Louise Ellman MP, The Transport Committee
 Louise Ellman is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Liverpool Riverside. She has held the seat since first becoming elected in 1997.
Louise is a member of the Department of Transport Select Committee. She is a Vice President of the Local Government Association. Before becoming an MP, Louise was Leader of Lancashire County Council. She is a member of the Liverpool Capital of Culture of Cmyulture Board. She is Chair Jewish Labour Movement which is affiliated to the Labour Party and a council member of the Holocaust Educational Trust and a director of the Holocaust Memorial Trust.
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Dr Stephen Ison, Loughborough University
 Stephen Ison is a Lecturer in Transport Studies in the Transport Studies Group, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University. He obtained a degree in Economics from Liverpool University, an MA in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds and a PhD from Loughborough University on the subject of Road User Charging.
Over that period he has undertaken research and teaching work on a variety of transport subjects, most notably in the area of attitudinal surveys with respect to market-based approaches to congestion and traffic-related pollution. More specifically this has involved work in the area of road user charging and the workplace parking levy He has written extensively in terms of road user charging and has recently published a book entitled: Road User Charging: Issues and Policies published by Ashgate (2004).
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Rob Surl,
Head of Transportation, Shropshire County Council
 Surl as Head of Transportation at Shropshire County Council, Rob has overall responsibility for the Local Transport Plan, Traffic Management, Road Safety and Passenger Transport Policy. He has played a lead role in developing the Integrated Transport Plan for Shrewsbury, including the promotion of Park and Ride, and the innovative High Street enhancement scheme- part of the English Historic Towns Forum's "Historic Core Zones" project. Rob and his team were responsible for Shropshire's Transport Innovation Fund Pump Priming Bid.
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Paul Watters, Head of Roads and Transport Policy, The AA Motoring Trust
 Paul has over 25 years experience in highways and traffic. He started with the AA in 1974 and was the AA's Regional Highways and Traffic Officer for the South East and Special Projects Officer within Group Public Policy. In 1991 he left the AA to become senior traffic management engineer with Hampshire County Council, responsible for implementation of the New Forest highway strategy.
He has been in his current post since 1993 following an invitation to return to the AA. Paul has a University of London Diploma in Transport and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistsic and Transport and Institution of Highways and Transportation. Paul's current responsibilities are wide ranging covering policy issues including roads infrastructure, road user charging, traffic management, to parking and signing. He represents the AA Trust at senior level and is a member of a number of national working groups. He is regularly called upon to give policy comment to the media on a wide range of road and transport matters.
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Professor Christiane Bielefeldt , Transport Research Institute
 Christiane Bielefeldt is an independent consultant in the field of integrated transport management and a Visiting Professor at the Transport Research Institute at Napier University in Edinburgh. In previous employments, she has managed many major studies and research and development projects in the fields of off-line and on-line traffic signal control, bus priority, traffic safety, environmental pollution and traffic performance evaluation. She worked on advanced road transport and traffic technologies in the European research programme PROMETHEUS, and spent more than two years in the DRIVE Central Office with the European Commission in Brussels on project and programme management. Since then she led, or was involved in, a series of European research projects, mainly concerning urban and motorway traffic control and management issues as well as pricing of infrastructure use.
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Neil Paulley, Head of the TRL Academy, Transport Research Laboratory
 Neil Paulley MSc FIHT is Head of the TRL Academy and has over 34 years' experience in transport research. He has worked extensively in the area of transport policy and demand forecasting, having a particular interest in the underlying causes of observed travel patterns, in behavioural responses to investment initiatives and in the relationships between land use and transport.
As Head of the Academy Neil has responsibility for science and engineering activities and their strategic development at TRL, for formulating and ensuring delivery of longer-term research programmes and for ensuring technical quality across the company. He is responsible for numerous publications, sits on several advisory boards and committees, is on the editorial board of Transport Policy and is deputy chair of the Council of the Association for European Transport.
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Duncan Matheson, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
 Duncan obtained a MSc in Aerospace Systems from Cranfield Institute of Technology and a postgraduate Diploma in Management following an Engineering Apprenticeship with British Aerospace. His early experience included Unmanned Aircraft (UMA) research at RAE Farnborough, a GPS Project Definition Study, and assignments in the European Air Traffic Management arena.
Duncan has been working in the field of telematics and Road User Charging systems for over ten years and is currently supporting the UK Department for Transport in its ongoing road user charging research programme and related issues. Following his management of motorway tolling technology trials, Duncan led the definition of the requirements for the UK's DIRECTS road charging pilot programme. This put a heavy emphasis on the demonstration of practical interoperability and its importance at the heart of congestion charging scheme design.
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Michèle Dix, Director- Congestion Charging, Transport for London
 Michèle is the Director for Congestion Charging at TfL, responsible for planning, implementing and operating the Central London congestion charging scheme and subsequent scheme improvements and expansion She is also responsible for developing and for implementing a London wide Low Emission Zone.
She began her career in the late 70s as a transport planner with the Greater London Council having graduated in civil engineering and then gaining her Doctorate in transport planning. She is a chartered civil engineer. After 6 years, in which she first studied the impacts of an area pricing scheme for central London , she joined the transport planning company, Halcrow Fox and was appointed Director for public sector multi-modal studies in 1996. Her work involved a number of key road pricing studies including the ROCOL study which she project managed to provide advice on Mayoral powers with regard to congestion charging in London.
In addition she has been involved in major multi-modal transport planning studies in London and the South East throughout her career including the World Squares for All, South East Regional Airports and the London to South West and Wales multi-modal studies. She has been with TfL (congestion charging) since its inception.
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Ian MacGregor, UK Public Sector Relations and Marketing, T-Systems Ltd.
 Ian's career spans over 15 years in business-to-business and high tech marketing. In the early 1990's, Ian was Marketing Director for Deutsche Telekom in the UK and later moved to Motorola where he headed the marketing operations for the company's GSM infrastructure division worldwide. Ian now directs project marketing operations for T-Systems' UK public sector activities, including the development of road pricing and traffic management systems.
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Riaan Barnard, Research Manager, RFID Centre
 Riaan Barnard is the Research Manager at the RFID Centre Ltd. He holds an honours degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, with extensive international supply chain consulting experience, specifically within the petrochemical, transport and logistics industries. His related RFID experience was acquired as a senior supply chain consultant, where he worked on large development and optimisation projects in South Africa, the USA and Europe.
Riaan also completed an MBA degree with RFID as the subject of his primary research, involving the in-depth evaluation of the RFID market, applications across various industries and the associated business benefits obtainable through RFID adoption. He is now responsible for the delivery of research programmes related to the extended application of RFID in diversified sectors, including road user charging and the broader intelligent transport system applications.
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Ian Simpson, Director of Traffic, Deloitte
 Ian Simpson is a Partner in the UK public sector consultancy practice and leads the Deloitte public transport consultancy team. Ian has over 14 years of consultancy experience, mainly in the public sector and transport. He specialises in the management of large, complex transformation projects and technology programmes. Ian leads Deloitte's Global Road User Charging Initiative and has advised organisations internationally on the design and implementation of urban and national road user charging schemes.
Ian's current and previous clients also include TfL, HMCE, DfT, Highways Agency, Transport Initiatives Edinburgh, Stockholm City Council and Transit New Zealand. Prior to working in management consultancy, he was a chartered civil engineer in one of the UK's largest engineering contracting organisations. He has a BSc, MSc (Engineering) from Imperial College, an MBA from Manchester Business School and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA).
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