This session, organised by CIHT Scotland, will be led by CIHT Vice President, Neil Johnstone, who will facilitate an informative discussion with a panel of industry experts directly involved in the development of the COP26 Transport Plan.
Members will have the opportunity to be involved in the conversation by sharing views and asking questions of the panel as they consider the successes and lessons learned from COP26.
Following on from the successful webinar held in September 2021, Transport Planning for COP26, CIHT Scotland has organised a panel discussion to look back at the successes and lessons learned from the COP26 Transport Plan.
The UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021. The scale of this event was unprecedented in Scotland, with world leaders, delegates and international media attending the conference over the two-week period.
The COP26 Transport Plan was crucial in delivering a safe, secure and resilient transport network for the 25,000 daily attendees who accessed the event. With public transport and active travel at its core, the Transport Plan successfully balanced ‘business as usual’ traffic with the increased demand associated to the event, resulting in minimal disruption to the networks.
A key part of the Plan was the Travel Demand Management (TDM) Programme, which engaged with local communities, businesses, and other users of the transport network. The strategy of the TDM Programme was to understand, inform and encourage the necessary changes in travel behaviour in order to minimise disruption during conference.
This session will be led by CIHT Vice President, Neil Johnstone, who will facilitate an informative discussion with a panel of industry experts directly involved in the development of the Transport Plan. Members will also have the opportunity to be involved in the conversation by sharing views and asking questions of the panel as they consider the successes and lessons learned from COP26.
This event is open to both members and non-members of CIHT. It will be of particular interest to those involved in traffic management, transport planning and operations.
Neil Johnstone, Independent Consultant, CIHT Vice President and Member of Scottish Transport Policy Forum
Neil Johnstone has over 40 years of experience having worked in contracting, local government and consultancy. For 25 years Neil worked throughout UK for Halcrow/CH2M, becoming managing director of its activities in continental Europe where he oversaw work in a range of sectors including transport, energy and water.
More recently Neil was a director at SYSTRA where he led the integration of the acquisitions of JMP and SIAS. In July 2017 he has launched his own venture (CONSULT-NJ LTD) offering services in transportation and business change.
Neil is a Fellow of CIHT, chartered engineer, member of ICE, as well as the Institute of Directors. Neil has represented CIHT on the National Transport Strategy (NTS2) Partnership Review Group and has co-chaired the Thematic Working Group on Safety and Resilience. In his consultancy role he is currently seconded to Transport Scotland where he has led the procurement of the Strategic Transport Project Review (STPR2).
Nicola Blaney, Head of Events Resilience, Transport Scotland
Nicola is a Chartered Civil Engineer with a broad range of experience covering the full life cycle of the transport system. She has specific expertise in Major Events planning and operations, having had involvement in 2012 London Olympics, 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2020 Euros.
Nicola is currently the Scotland Chair for the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT).
Mairi Joyce, Project Principal, Mott MacDonald
Mairi is a Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTTP) passionate about working with partners and communities to create sustainable and effective transport planning solutions.
Based in the Mott MacDonald Edinburgh office, Mairi specialises in decarbonising transport, active travel planning and design, development planning, travel demand management, appraisal and transport policy and strategy.
Mairi was project manager of the development and delivery of a Travel Demand Management Strategy for Transport Scotland as they moved through the different stages of C-19 associated lockdown. The project work involved review of travel data, creation of travel demand messages based on the data, identification of channels, creation of a marketing and communications Plan and monitoring and evaluating the outcomes.
Mairi assisted Transport Scotland with the development of their TDM campaign for COP26.
Martin Campbell, Associate, Systra Ltd
Martin is an Associate Transport Planner and Modeller with over 20 years’ experience in delivering and managing a wide and diverse range of commissions for both public and private sector clients throughout Scotland, the UK and Ireland.
Martin specialises in microsimulation traffic modelling, scheme appraisal, traffic management / maintenance / event modelling and road traffic assignment modelling.
Martin was involved in assisting Transport Scotland in identifying the traffic impacts on the surrounding road network for COP26.
Andrew Kelly, Associate Director, Transport Planning, Jacobs
Andrew is a Chartered Engineer with experience in the planning, design and delivery of walking, cycling and public transport schemes and in the operational planning for major transport events. He works within the Transport Planning team at Jacobs, helping to lead teams in the delivery of sustainable transport projects and has been involved in the planning of the London 2012 Olympics, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar during this time.
Andrew was involved in the external evaluation of the COP26 Transport Plan.
Neil Johnstone
Nicola Blaney
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