Tom van Vuren receives an MBE for his services to Transport

We are delighted to see that the TPS's Director of Policy, Tom van Vuren, has been awarded an honorary MBE for his services to transport. Being a foreign national, this award was made outside the two usual dates for these – the Birthday Honours and the New Years Honours.

On receiving his award, Tom van Vuren said:

“What pleases me most is that a colleague in my professional transport planning circle has taken the effort to make a case for this honour, that recognises the importance of modelling and data, quantified evidence, for transport-related decision-making.

We may feel that at the moment transport is just a partisan football, and that headlines are the only things that matter; but once the political party conference season is over, I trust that common sense will return, and that transport planners will be listened to, addressing the big questions we face – climate change, levelling up, transport equity – with solid arguments based on domain knowledge and backed up by facts.”