Martin Richards has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Transport Practitioners Meeting. The prize, sponsored by PTRC, was awarded to Martin for his long-term commitment and contribution to the profession and to the development of the transport agenda in the UK.

Martin, whose career began in 1960 with the newly created London Traffic Management Unit and who was with MVA from 1975 until his retirement in 2000, played key roles in many high profile transport schemes including the Transport Planning Skills Initiative and the development of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for transport planning.

He is the author of a number of books and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1993 for services to transport planning.