Job title: Senior Consultant - Jacobs
Sarah is a Senior Consultant at Jacobs, based in the Tower Bridge office, and has eight years experience in transport planning and environmental science.
During her time in transport planning she has had wide ranging project exposure and this has aided her to develop broad expertise; however she specialises in sustainable transport, development planning and strategy development. Her development planning experience has included the preparation of Transport Assessments for a variety of land uses and the development of transport strategies, and provision of high level transport advice, for major high profile masterplanning projects. The encouragement of shift towards more sustainable modes has been a key component of these, and other, strategic planning projects which she has worked on. This has included the preparation of Local Implementation Plans (LIPs), supplementary planning documents and strategies relating to sustainable travel. She is also experienced in the development and implementation of marketing campaigns for sustainable transport initiatives and in the practical application of accessibility planning tools such as Accession (outside of London) and CAPITAL (within London).
Sarah is an accomplished project manager, having successfully managed commissions for both public and private sector clients, and is therefore experienced in team and programme management.
She has been a member of the CIHT for the past 5 years and has recently joined the CIHT Greater London Branch Committee and Young Professionals Committee
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Alison is a Senior Transport Planner at Ove Arup & Partners Alison based in London and has over five years experience in Transport Planning. She specialises in development planning, primarily undertaking Transport Assessments and Travel Plans for both public and private sector clients.
Her expertise includes master planning and the development of transport strategies for residential and commercial land uses, to reduce the need to travel, discourage car use and to promote sustainable transport modes. She also carries out junction modelling using a variety of industry recognised software packages, including LinSig and TRANSYT. Alison has been actively involved in public consultation events for a number of development schemes and is experienced in working with a wide variety of stakeholders.
Alison has an MSc in Transport Planning from the University of Leeds. She is an active member of CIHT and has recently joined the Greater London Committee. She is now involved in setting up the Young Professionals Committee to represent the views of Younger Members of the Institution.
Lucy Godfrey is a graduate transport planner at Transport for London. She studied Geography at Leeds University and started on TfL’s graduate scheme in September 2009. She is developing her experience in transport planning and has been involved in a number of walking and cycling schemes at TfL. Lucy has worked on the Legible London pedestrian signage project as well as promoting walking both externally and internally. She has also gained experience in junction design and modelling using LinSig as well as stakeholder consultation.
She is studying for a masters part time in ‘Transport and Sustainable Development’ at Imperial College London. This will develop her understanding of transport planning and economics as well as her knowledge of transport and sustainability issues. Lucy is a recent member of CIHT and is helping to set up the Young Members Committee which aims to recruit younger members to the institute and tailor presentations and events to a younger audience.