Transport Planner of the Year

The Transport Planner of the Year 2023 was presented to Will Pedley, Senior Transport Planner at Oxford County Council, for his work creating Oxfordshire County Council’s Decide & Provide transport planning guidance, making Oxfordshire County Council the first local authority in the UK to produce and adopt such guidance.

All finalists for this year's Transport Planner of the Year award 

The Transport Planner of the Year 2022 was presented to Jillian Anable, Professor of Transport and Energy at the ITS, University of Leeds, for her brilliant work studying the ongoing impact of the
pandemic on patterns of travel and car ownership and its future policy implications for the
Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS). 

All finalists for this year's Transport Planner of the Year award 

The 2021 Transport Planner of the Year Award was presented to Stephen Bennett, Director, Arup Consulting and past Chair of TPS. Even in an exceptional field of candidates this year, Stephen stood out for all the work he did in 2020 - largely in his own time - to keep TPS going during an exceptionally difficult time.  The award also recognises his work whilst at the Society as a founder of Transport Planning Day, and in the development of TPS’s first stocktake of the industry in Great Britain – the State of the Nations report.  All this on top of ongoing success in his day job as a Director of Transport Consulting at Arup, where he has made particular contribution to multi-modal transport studies and local transport decarbonisation.   Stephen is a fabulous ambassador for the industry and a worthy addition to the Transport Planner of the Year hall of fame!. 

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The 2020 Transport Planner of the Year Award was presented to Sally Gibbons, Head of Traffic Signs and Street Design Policy at the Department for Transport, for for her work in producing the government's guidance on 'Reallocating road space in response to COVID-19: statutory guidance for local authorities'.  This guidance has played a significant role in supporting the recovery from the COVID-19 emergency through encouraging safe and active travel.

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The 2019 Transport Planner of the Year Award was presented to Susan Claris from Arup for the important part she has played in raising the profile of transport planning and particularly of active travel, as well as being a champion for diversity in the profession.  Transport Planning Day was her idea originally and she is a worthy recipient of this annual award. She is a great ambassador and role model for the profession.

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The 2018 Transport Planner of the Year 2018 was presented to Anne Graham,  Chief Executive of the National Transport Authority, Ireland for her role  effecting a significant shift in the governance of Public Transport in Ireland.  Under her stewardship, the NTA delivered the first statutory transport plan for the Greater Dublin Area, a Transport Strategy for Galway and a Transport Strategy for Cork. These achievements and her public leadership have led to a substantial increase in capital funding for all forms of public and sustainable transport in the recent National Development Plan.

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 The winner of the Transport Planner of the Year 2017 was Nicola Kane, Head of Strategic Planning and Research at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) for her work leading the production of the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040, published in February 2017.  Nicola is a chartered town planner (MRTPI) and qualified transport planning professional (TPP) and joined TfGM in 2014 after 15 years of working in consultancy.  She has wide-ranging experience in transport strategy and policy development, development planning and travel behaviour change and is now enjoying the opportunity to help shape the future of transport in Greater Manchester. 

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The 2016 Transport Planner of the Year Award was presented to  Stephen Wood,  Head of Transport Planning and Modelling within the Department for Infrastructure (NI) for his work in leading the introduction of four-stage multimodal models for NI and for Belfast to facilitate an ongoing and integrated approach to transport planning in the Province for the first time.

He has also promoted the application of transport planning processes more widely within the Department through establishing a Managed Services Framework covering modelling, scheme appraisal, strategy formulation and local public transport scheduling. He has devised and implemented local transport studies to support Council-led local development plans.

Stephen was the first transport planner in NI to be awarded TPP. 

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The Transport Planner of the Year Award 2015 was presented to Lucy Saunders, Transport for London, in recognition her leading role in producing TfL's " Transport Action Plan for improving the Health of Londoners.