Transport Planning Day 2023

Prof. Glenn Lyons

Glenn is the Mott MacDonald professor of future mobility at the University of the West of England, Bristol. With a career-long focus on understanding and influencing travel behaviour in the context of continuing social and technological change, Glenn specialises now in vision-led strategic planning for an uncertain world in the face of a climate emergency. For the last year he has been a member of the Wales Roads Review Panel.

Maya Singer Hobbs

Maya is a senior research fellow in the energy, climate, housing and infrastructure team, where she works on planning reform, transport decarbonisation and clean air policies.

Before joining the IPPR, Maya worked in central government carrying out research on a range of policy topics, including transport, education, planning reform, health and land use. Maya holds a PhD in sustainable chemistry from the University of Bath.

Caroline Stickland

As CEO at Transport for All, Caroline works to ensure the organisation is making an impact and delivering on its goals: challenging and removing the barriers to travel that are faced by disabled people across the UK. Caroline brings her lived experience as a disabled person, and an academic interest in health, impairment, and disability, to her role. Alongside driving forward the organisation’s advice, community and policy work, Caroline has led on the development of Transport for All’s training and consultancy service – providing disabled led expertise to the transport sector and delivering a transformation of how disabled people are engaged with by decision makers.

Aoife Dudley

Aoife is a senior transport and sustainability consultant at City Science, having joined them last year after three years at Atkins. She works across a wide range of topics including planning for net zero developments, writing LCWIPs and Active Travel Strategies and is currently supporting local plan development to prepare for the government’s forthcoming guidance. Recently, Aoife worked on developing a decarbonisation pathway for Cotswold District in Gloucestershire, which addressed the contrasts in the District by taking a place-based approach, and quantifying the impact of transport interventions across different place types.

Michael Solomon Williams

As campaigns manager for Campaign for Better Transport, Michael devises and coordinates campaigns, leading on a wide range of projects covering everything from rail, bus and tram to business, freight and integrated local transport. In 2023, the 50th anniversary year of Campaign for Better Transport, he led on delivery of the nationwide Better Transport Week, featuring industry events, public engagement, roundtables and papers involving over a hundred partners ranging from the Department of Transport, Transport for London and all the major rail and bus operators to shared transport, active travel, health, business and NGO partners. Michael represents Campaign for Better Transport frequently at events, conferences and in the media, and sits on the Advisory Board of Intelligent Transport.

Mike Evans Ford

Having been in the transport tech since 2018, Mike has been able to gain valuable insights and experience from a range of companies in the industry. In his current role as sales & business development manager at ioki, he is responsible for the expansion in the UK and Irish markets.

Mike is committed to shaping the future of mobility and bringing innovative, forward thinking solutions backed by data to the industry. His area of expertise centres around bolstering established public transport systems through digitalised and pioneering mobility solutions, with a particular emphasis on the vital first and last mile connections.

Federico Cassani

Federico is the global director of transport and mobility at Buro Happold, and is an expert in urban and transport planning, urban design and project management of complex transport masterplans. Prior to joining, he founded MIC Mobility in Chain in 2009, which currently has more than 40 professionals in three offices around the globe. While there, he worked with the most renowned global architectural firms,

Federico has been project manager on a wide range of transport planning projects, involving transport feasibility studies, traffic impact studies, parking policy studies, public transport studies and urban regeneration programmes. He has managed more than 80 sustainable mobility masterplans as well as several transport feasibility studies for airport facilities, urban areas, stations, important exhibition fairs and hospitals.

Federico was the professor of land design at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Milan (since 2012), assistant professor in urban design at the Faculty of Architecture of Milan Polytechnic, and thesis mentor and lecturer in the Urban Management Masters at the Domus Academy, Milan. He graduated with full marks in urban planning from the architecture faculty of the Polytechnic of Milan. In 1997, he did a postgraduate certificate of specialised planning studies with a specialism in urban design at the South Bank University in London

Shireen Ali-Khan

Shireen Ali-Khan; major projects and engagement specialist, founder, podcast host and facilitator is passionate about people and the human experience. Her personal style of relatability and authority creates a safe space to delve deep into the hard topics such as mental health, inclusion and diversity, stakeholder engagement and leadership.

Emma Griffin

Emma Griffin is vice-chair of London Living Streets, trustee at the Foundation for Integrated Transport, member of the Healthy Streets Coalition, and co-founder of Footways, an initiative to create networks of quiet and interesting streets to boost everyday walking in urban areas. She is a researcher, writer, and campaigner for sustainable transport, specialising in ideas that tackle car dominance and improve the walkability of towns and cities.