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Chairs and speakers include:
Speaker Profiles:
Professor Stephen Ison
 Professor Stephen Ison is part of the Transport Studies Group, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University. He has undertaken research and teaching 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.
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Michèle Dix
 Michèle Dix is 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 initiatives.
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James Whitty
 James Whitty is the manager of Oregon Department of Transportation’s Office of Innovative Partnerships and
Alternative Funding. He has led all aspects of development and implementation of Oregon’s visionary Road User Fee Pilot Program. James’s leadership of the Road User Fee Task Force led to the development of an innovative proposal for testing a distance-based road user fee.
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John Leach MP
 John Leach MP has been a member of Manchester City Council since 1998. His political areas of interest include Planning and the Environment, Housing, Transport, Health and Sport. He is a member of the Shadow Transport team and the Select committee on Transport.
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Cllr Roy Davis
 Cllr Roy Davis has served on Luton Borough Council for 24 years, 8 as Leader of the Council, and is currently Cabinet member with responsibility for major infrastructure and transport projects. As a member of the LGA Regeneration and Transportation Board he is especially interested in public transport.
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Graham Hughes
 Graham Hughes is Director of Sustainable Infrastructure at Cambridgeshire County Council. He is responsibility for the development of Transport Policy across the County, the council's flagship Guided Busway project, the delivery of the council's transport capital programme and the growth agenda - 50,000 new houses are planned in the area by 2016.
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Matthew Lugg
 Matthew Lugg has nearly 30 years experience in the public sector working for a number of County Councils as well as the Department of Transport in the UK. He is Chair of the UK Roads Board, Chair of the CSS Engineering Committee, and former Chair of the Highway Maintenance Sub-Group and the
Highway Asset Management Sub-Group. He has played a major role in the development of Highway Asset Management in the UK in leading projects to produce national guidance.
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Paul Watters
 Paul Watters is the AA’s Head of Public Affairs and also looks after the roads and transport policy brief. In January 2007 the new AA Motoring Public Affairs team was created which he leads. In addition, Paul's current responsibilities cover motoring issues from roads and traffic infrastructure, road maintenance, road user charging to parking, signing and vehicle registration issues.
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Colin Stanbridge
 Colin Stanbridge became Chief Executive of the London
Chamber of Commerce and Industry in November 2002. He is responsible to the Board for all aspects of the Chamber’s work. Prior to joining the Chamber, Colin was Managing Director of Carlton Broadcasting, the London weekday ITV Company.
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Ian McGregor
 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 customer relations activities for T-Systems' road pricing and traffic management services.
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Keith Howcroft
.jpg) Keith Howcroft is Deputy Head of Transport at Manchester City Council and Assistant Clerk to Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority. With over 30 years experience in land-use and transport planning Keith has overseen the preparation and implementation of a range of transport strategies and plans in Greater Manchester. He was also responsible for the introduction of a wide range of initiatives that have brought significant passenger benefits including Manchester's night bus network, Yellow School buses and Metroshuttle, the free city centre bus network.
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David Bishop
 Bristol is faced with the enormous challenge of accommodating significant growth whilst reducing congestion, and improving quality of life for its residents. David Bishop is responsible for the key services addressing these issues in a sustainable way.
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