Despite concerns about the impacts of Government cuts on transport planning, transport planning employers are continuing to strengthen their commitment to staff development  Two more consultants, Jacobs Consultancy and URS, have decided to adopt the Transport Planning Society’s Professional Development Scheme.  There are now  21 organisations committed to the Scheme, including the majority of the largest transport planning consultants.

According to Martin Richards, TPS Director for Skills, the introduction of the TPP qualification has created a key incentive for younger transport planners to join the Scheme is the link with the TPP qualification.  That link is also a driver for employers in providing the Scheme. 

Stuart Turnbull, Jacobs Consultancy’s Director responsible for training, said “we welcome the recognition that the TPP qualification is now receiving from significant industry partners. We are therefore delighted to adopt the TPS Professional Development Scheme as a comprehensive, structured approach to developing our employees as they work towards achieving the TPP qualification, and I am looking forward to working with the TPS in integrating the Professional Development Scheme with our extensive in-house training programme”.

Victoria Hills, TPS Chair, thinks the TPS Scheme is now well on its way to becoming an industry standard, quoting one recent licensee who gave that as one of the reasons behind their decision to adopt it.  “It is enormously satisfying that our investment in developing the Scheme and in our work with CIHT on the TPP qualification has so clearly met an industry need”, she said.

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Martin Richards
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