Transport Planning Society announces Minister as keynote speaker for its 7th annual Transport Planning Day event

The Transport Planning Society (TPS) has announced the programme for Transport Planning Day 2024 on 11^th November, where transport planners will gather to discuss ‘The road less travelled: the principles, policies, practicalities and politics of reducing car use in the UK’.

The hybrid event will bring together transport planners from across the industry to celebrate best practice and help unpack the hotly contested issue of reducing car travel.

The speakers for the first plenary session include: 

• Lilian Greenwood MP – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Future of Roads
• Steve Gooding – Director – RAC Foundation
• Sharon Payne – Regional Rural Mobility Manager – Transport East
• Ed Downer – Transport and Mobility Associate Buro Happold 

The second panel session will feature: 

• Fiona Brown – Interim Director of Transport Strategy and Analysis - Transport Scotland
• Izzy Romilly – Sustainable Transport Research and Campaign Manager – Possible
• David Connolly – Director of Low Carbon Mobility – Systra
• Tim Steiner - Divisional Director - Jacobs
• Hannah Donovan – Transport Planner – Transport for London

 Ben Plowden, Chair of the TPS, said:  

“I’m delighted to welcome our speakers to this year’s Transport Planning Day and am looking forward to discussing the topic of reducing car use in the UK, and the principles, policies, practicalities and politics of doing so.

With governments across the UK expressing the need to reduce car use to reach Net Zero and tackle the wider impacts of continuing growth in road traffic, this is a hot topic in the transport planning industry at the moment.

Our speakers will look at all sides of the debate, including how we enable people to do the same things differently and more sustainably, while still realising transport’s social and economic benefits, to the belief that seeking to reduce car travel is an assault on freedom of choice. 

It’s going to be a very interesting discussion!” 

This year’s campaign is being supported by Buro Happold, Jacobs, Systra, Tracsis, Stantec, IDASO, Mayer Brown, Kestrel Surveys and Charge Surveys.