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SPEAKERS A-Z numerous consultants as well as running his own practice for 11 years.
Rachel Aldred
Senior Lecturer in Transport, University of Westminster Dr. Rachel Aldred is a Senior Lecturer in Transport at Westminster University. Her specialist area is cycling and in relation to this, she has used a range of methods from qualitative interviews, to mathematical modelling, to surveys and GIS. Her research has been funded by research councils, DfT, TfL and others and she has published this work in outlets from the Journal of Transport Geography to The Guardian.
Michael Batty
Chairman, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Michael Batty CBE FRS FBA is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s and has published several books, such as Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2005) and most recently The New Science of Cities (MIT Press, 2013). He is the editor of the journal Environment and Planning B. His research group is working on simulating long term structural change and dynamics in cities as well as their visualisation, as well as urban analytics for smart cities.
Luke Best
Technical Director/Owner, Multimodal Says Luke: I am passionate about both the benefits of encouraging specialists within an industry, and about being one of those specialists myself. I believe that microsimulation is one of a suite of expert tools available which can truly make a difference to how we manage our existing infrastructure assets, how we plan for the future and how we can affect everyone's experience of transport and travel.
Richard Bradley
Technical Director, Intelligent Mobility, Atkins Richard Bradley is part of Atkins’ Intelligent Mobility team. Intelligent Mobility is about connecting people, places and goods across all transport modes. His primary focus is around data and the holistic simulation of multi-sector systems. This includes understanding the interaction of a wide spectrum of industries, focused around transport, and how personal and corporate behaviour can be influenced to optimise overall effects to society, the economy and the environment. He has over 26 years experience in transport planning and engineering, and developing modelling and appraisal software, and has worked for
Martijn Breen
Scientific Software Developer, Aimsun
Robin Cambery
Transport Modeller, Department for Transport Robin is a transport modeller in the Transport Appraisal and Strategic Modelling team at the Department for Transport. His chief responsibility is maintaining and developing the Department’s WebTAG guidance and advises on modelling and appraisal issues for local and national schemes. Previously responsible for developing the NTEM data set, his current main interest is in demand forecasting uncertainty and communicating risks and opportunities of infrastructure investment to decision-makers via transport models.
Dale Campbell
Operational Research & Analytics Manager, Transport for London Dale Campbell is the Operational Research and Analytics Manager for the Analytics team in Transport for London’s Customer Experience Directorate. He is responsible for the team that is developing TfL’s understanding of customers and travel behaviour through the analysis of customer data collected through our automated ticketing systems. He has the remit to provide analysis and insight which supports TfL’s operational and planning area in the delivery of services to customers.
Alice Crossley
Head of Project Modelling and Appraisal, Department for Transport
Steven Finch
Head of Evaluation, Department for Transport Steven Finch is Head of Evaluation at the Department for Transport. He leads the Department’s Evaluation Centre of Excellence which develops and supports monitoring and evaluation projects to assess the real world effectiveness, efficiency and impacts of transport interventions and feed findings into policy making, delivery and appraisal systems. Prior to joining DfT in 2013, Steven worked for a number of years at NatCen Social Research where he led social research and evaluation projects for diverse government clients.
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Graham Fletcher
Transport Systems Catapult
Anna Goodman
Public Health Researcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Anna is a public health researcher based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is particularly interested in using secondary analysis of existing data sources to study walking and cycling, and evaluate walking and cycling interventions.
Peter Heywood
Department of Computer Science, Sheffield University Peter is a PhD Student in the University of Sheffield’s Department of Computer Science, his research is focussed on the acceleration of transport system micro-simulation using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Under the supervision of Dr Paul Richmond and working closely with the Transport Systems Catapult, Peter is currently developing techniques to extend FLAME GPU (an open-source agentbased modelling environment) specific to transport system simulation to enable simulations of significantly greater scale and complexity than currently possible.
Martin Higgitt
Associate Director, JMP Systra Martin is an Associate Director at JMP, with over 17 years’ consultancy experience, specialising in sustainable transport strategies and behaviour change programmes. He leads JMP’s “Influencing Travel Behaviour” work area. In this role, he has overseen many of our large-scale communitybased behaviour change programmes which have involved Personal Travel Planning, workplace travel planning, school travel planning, marketing campaigns and on-line and social media campaigns.
Yaron Hollander Director, CTthink!
Yaron has developed many statistical and econometric models, originally in the field of travel behaviour and more recently in other fields, such as health technology and care management. Until 2015 Yaron led TfL’s policy appraisal and modelling team, where he introduced TfL’s mapping website (tfl.gov.uk/WebCAT), TfL’s strategy for using mobile data for planning (Project EDMOND) and London’s cycling network model (CYNEMON).
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SPEAKERS A-Z Ali Inayathusein
Policy Appraisal and Sub Regional Modelling Manager, Transport for London Ali manages Transport for London’s (TFL) Policy Appraisal and Sub Regional Modelling team. This includes responsibility for strategic highway modelling, cycling modelling and the recently launched Web based Connectivity Assessment Toolkit (WebCAT). He has extensive experience, having played a key role in developing TfL’s strategic highway modelling capability and leading development of an innovative approach to modelling cycling.
Marc Joly
Technical Unit, Systra
Stephen Joseph
Director, Campaign for Better Transport Stephen became the executive director of Campaign for Better Transport in 1988. His transport policy expertise is widely regarded, and he is regularly called to serve as a governmental advisor. He has led numerous successful policy campaigns, is frequently quoted by the national press, and is a regular author of research and opinion pieces. He was awarded the OBE in 1996 for services to transport and the environment. In 2008 he was honoured with a PTRC Lifetime Achievement Award 'for furthering the role of transport planning in society'.
Dr Mark Mawson Computational Scientist, Hartree Centre
Dr Mark Mawson is a computational scientist at the Hartree Centre specialising in accelerating software through optimisation and porting to highly parallel architectures. He completed his PhD on the topic of highly parallel fluid-structure interaction in 2013 and since then has been helping academia and industry take advantage of the latest developments in computer architecture to reduce compute time and solve increasingly large and complicated problems.
Hugh Neffendorf Katalysis Limited
Hugh is the founder and Managing Director of Katalysis. Prior to 1997, Hugh was Managing Director of MVA Systematica, a prominent consultancy in software and information management. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton, Department of Geography and a member of the UK Government's Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information.
Simon Nielsen
Paul O’Neill
Head of Strategic Analysis, Transport for London Simon has 28 years experience in transport planning in the UK. He joined TfL in 2010. His current role involves providing evidence to support the transport strategies, policies and interventions contained within strategic documents such as the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS). He is responsible for the annual Travel in London report and the annual London Travel Demand Survey, a household survey of 8,000 households. This analysis is used to ensure that forecasts produced by his team are grounded in a detailed understanding of travel trends and behaviour. The scope of his work also encompasses air quality monitoring and modelling which feeds into the Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy.
Klaus Noekel
Head of Innovation, PTV Group
As Head of Innovation at PTV Group, Dr. Noekel is responsible for novel applications and methodological development of the PTV Vision Traffic Suite of transportation planning software, including PTV Visum (demand modelling), PTV Vissim (traffic microsimulation), PTV Optima (real-time traffic management). He participates in numerous collaborations with the academic community in transportation modelling and has published on diverse topics, particularly traffic assignment. Dr Noekel joined PTV Group in 1997 and has worked on numerous consultancy and software development projects in transportation planning and traffic engineering for more than 25 years.
Robin North
CEO, Transport Systems Catapult spin out Immense Simulations
Managing Director, Intelligent Data Paul O’Neill is the Managing Director of Intelligent Data, with over 18 years experience in transport modelling, consultancy and data collection. Paul is the Director at Intelligent Data responsible for major project delivery and has worked as the lead partner on some of the largest infrastructure modelling projects in the UK in the past 5 years.
Matt Pettit
Product Applications Engineer, Citilabs Matt is a Product Applications Engineer with Citilabs in Decatur, Georgia in the United States. At Citilabs, Matt has played an integral role in the development of a new transportation accessibility analysis software. He also works with local government agencies to best utilise their transportation modeling software.
Miguel Picornell Technical Manager, Kineo/Nommon
Miguel Picornell started his professional career as a project manager in the construction industry, and has also worked as an Assistant Professor and Associate Researcher at the School of Civil Engineering of the UPV. In October 2012 he joined Nommon, where he has led different research and consultancy projects related to spatio-temporal data analysis and transport modelling and simulation. He has a broad experience in mobile positioning technologies, spatio-temporal data analysis, statistics and socio-economic aspects of human location and mobility patterns. He leads Kineo's technical team in charge of developing the algorithms and software tools behind our analytics solutions, and is also in charge of managing projects and customer relationships.
Michael Oliver
Jonathan Raper
Solution Director, PTV Group
As Solution Director for PTV Visum, Michael is responsible for the global market of PTV Visum; PTV Group’s leading transport planning software. Michael consults with customers around the world to gather feedback and ensure successful solutions whilst working with product developers to shape the software to current and future market needs. Michael graduated from the University of Birmingham with a Masters in Mathematical Sciences. He then worked as a consultant for Mott MacDonald before joining PTV Group in 2015.
CEO, TransportAPI
Jonathan Raper is CEO of Transport API, Britain's leading provider of open public transport data to over 600 operators, media, developers and government users. Jonathan has led http://transportapi.com/ from Placr Ltd. from startup to first funding round and into residency at the UK government's Open Data Institute. He is a Visiting Professor at City University London and sits on the Department for Transport Transparency Board and the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network Board.
Katalysis is very well known for developing creative initiatives and for forging and motivating partnerships.
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SPEAKERS A-Z Dr Paul Richmond
Department of Computer Science, Sheffield University Dr Richmond is a research focused Research Software Engineer who has recently been awarded one of only six EPSRC Early Career Research Software Engineering (RSE) Fellowships. The focus of this fellowship is in facilitating the use of accelerated architectures such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate scientific discovery. He is developing software techniques, a provision of skills and training material and building a community to help drive the use of accelerators into mainstream science and engineering.
Chris Sharpe
Director, Holistic City
Chris designed the CityCAD and Streetscape Pro applications and leads the urban design software and consultancy business of HCL. Over the last 14 years, Chris has worked as a software consultant, urban masterplanner and design consultant for several major public, private and third sector organizations in the UK and overseas. His experience includes the masterplan design of major urban extensions, new towns and retail-led masterplans, as well as public design policy documentation, conservation studies, street design and transport planning projects.
Clare Sheffield
Policy Analysis Manager, Transport for London
analytical work outside the area of transport. His interest in the ethics of modelling has arisen from involvement with community groups concerned about the use of prediction in transport assessments for development proposals.
Eime Tobari
Associate Director, Space Syntax Eime Tobari is a qualified architect in Japan. She has extensive research experience in architecture and sociology, focusing on the relationship between space and its behavioural, social and economic outcomes. Eime joined Space Syntax Limited in 2007. She has been involved in a variety of projects in the UK and internationally and supported private and public sector clients in their design development and planning applications. Her expertise covers a wide range of scales from the internal layout of buildings to city-wide masterplanninng.
Nicola Troll Systra
Nicola Troll is a specialist in transport modelling. She currently heads up SYSTRA’s Pedestrian Modelling work. She has developed and used a wide variety of models including: modelling pedestrian flows, taxi models with both driver and customer responses, the effectiveness of noise levies for airports, the revenue modelling for airlines and the, well known, London Transportation Studies model. She is also SYSTRA’s technical lead for modelling High Speed 2 demand.
Tom van Vuren
Katarzyna
Sila-Nowicka
Research Associate, Urban Big Data Centre, Glasgow University Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka (Sila) is a research associate in urban methods, modelling and simulations at the Urban Big Data Centre at University of Glasgow. She previously worked as a research fellow in Centre for Geoinformatics at the University of St Andrews, under MarieCurie Fellowship (FP7 Geocrowd) on the topics related with extracting knowledge from VGI and enriching GPS trajectories with contextual information (PhD Studies).
Gordon Stokes
Visiting Research Associate, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford Gordon Stokes has worked in transport research for 35 years, in government research, universities, consultancies and government agencies. His work has mainly combined travel behaviour data analysis and writing on transport policy. During the 2000s he worked for the Countryside Agency and extended his
Divisional Director, Mott MacDonald
Tom has been Chairman of Modelling World since its inception in 2006. As his Twitter profile states, he is passionate about transport modelling and always on the look-out for better ways to collect data, enhance the efficiency of methods and improve accessibility of model results. He holds an MSc from the University of Delft and a PhD from the Institute for Transport Studies and the University of Leeds. Tom is a Divisional Director at Mott MacDonald and a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds; and is a qualified Transport Planning Professional.
Martin Wedderburn Independent Transport Consultant and Associate, Walk21
Martin is an independent transport consultant and an Associate of Walk21, the global network for walking. He is an experienced transport planner who has worked on a range of multi-modal studies internationally, and has a particular interest in all aspects of the quantitative analysis and forecasting of active travel modes.
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Luis Willumsen
Independent Consultant, Transport Planning, Demand Modelling and Forecasting Luis (Pilo) Willumsen has over 35 years of experience as a consultant, transport planner and researcher with a distinguished academic career. He set up his independent practice in 2009. He has written over 50 technical papers, books and book chapters. His experience covers transport modelling assignments and leadership of numerous traffic and revenue forecasting studies for toll roads, managed lanes, rail, metro, etc., undertaken either for the private sector, financial institutions or government sponsors. He has experience in transport planning for large cities and regions. Within Kineo, he is in charge of identifying and developing business opportunities as well as providing scientific advice for the development of our solutions.
James Woodcock
Programme Lead, Public Health modelling, CEDAR, Cambridge University James’ research focuses on modelling health and sustainability. He has particular interest in how we can improve health in the transition to a low carbon transport system. His work investigates both the health impacts of changes to transport and food systems, developing detailed and realistic exposure scenarios, and modelling and how changes could be brought about.
Tom Worsley
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Transport Studies, Leeds University Tom worked as an economist in the public sector for 41 years, spending most of his time on transport forecasting, appraisal and modelling, developing techniques and advising decision-makers. He was awarded a CBE in the 2012 New Year's Honours list for services to the Department for Transport and made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics in 2011. He has held a number of senior economist posts during his career. He was responsible for setting up NATA (the New Approach To Appraisal) in 1997 and for the development of the Department’s National Transport Model in 2000/1. When the Rail Group was established by the Department in 2005, he led the team responsible for Network Modelling Framework, a forecasting model used to provide the evidence to inform the 2007 Rail White Paper and High Level Output Specification (HLOS). More recently he has managed the team of economists who provide economic advice on aviation and shipping and on transport and the environment. Full speaker biographies can be viewed online at: www.modellingworld2016.uk
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Atkins
Stand: E1
Atkins is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Our skills lie in the expansive area of infrastructure as well as in our experience of working for a broad range of clients, including national and local governments and the commercial sector. The social and environmental framework of our work is crucial, and we view all our projects in the context of the communities in which they are delivered. Atkins serves clients in UK & Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. www.atkinsglobal.com/en-gb
Intelligent Data
Stand: B5
Intelligent Data is the leading brand in the transport data collection sector providing our clients with evidence based data collection, monitoring and compliance services. At Intelligent Data we care passionately about the quality and delivery of the data we provide to our clients who include Highway Authorities, Police Forces, Transport Consultants and National government agencies. Intelligent Data operate across three main transport sectors - Road, Rail and Aviation. With a large fleet of standard CCTV and real-time ANPR equipment which can be deployed on any project, Intelligent Data have provided transport data collection services to public and private sector clients supporting some of the largest infrastructure and construction projects taking place in the UK and Europe. www.intelligent-data-collection.com
Citilabs
Stand: B1
Citilabs’ products and services provide the backbone of operational and predictive transportation systems in more than 2,500 locations in the world. These systems are used by governments to operate and plan their multimodal transportation systems, by private enterprise to locate and optimize their businesses, and by universities to design and test innovative transportation solutions. Our mission is to help our customers create a better future by solving the complex mobility challenges the world faces through the development of advanced software and data analytics.
Stand: C1
The mobility experts of the Netherlands, market leaders for more than 50 years, compiled their ICT expertise in the field of monitoring, modelling, managing and planning mobility. We build and supply standard and customised software solutions for (real time) public transport traffic models, multimodal travel information services, traffic forecasts, big data analysis and smart apps. DAT. Mobility employs smart developers and mobility experts who work on smart applications. We are entrepreneurs who are ready to take on the challenge. In short, everything that will make your policy more effective and improve the service to your target group. Don’t guess.Know. e info@dat.nl www.dat.nl
Stand: C2
Nationwide Data Collection (NDC) provides specialist data collection services for transport planning, traffic engineering and market research. Our staff have unrivalled experience in organising large scale data collection exercises with particular expertise being available in conducting manual & automatic traffic counts, roadside interview surveys, pedestrian counts & interviews, ANPR, Infrared video, radar speed surveys and parking studies. NDC recently acquired Vincent Knight who are a highly respected traffic data collection company based in London. The acquisition of VK provides additional resources in terms of staff and equipment which equal or surpass most if not all of our competitors. UK offices in Scotland, Ossett, Warwick and London. Ireland offices in Dublin and Athlone. E: enquiries@nationwidedatacollection.co.uk
INRO
Stand: A4
Every day, thousands of transport planners around the world use INRO software to model urban, metropolitan and regional transportation systems, and to evaluate transport policy that affects us all. The Emme travel demand forecasting software, Dynameq multi-scale traffic simulation software and CityPhi urban and mobility visualization software are collectively used in more than 80 countries, including half of the world's largest cities.
Mott MacDonald
Stand: B4
Mott MacDonald is a multi-national and multidisciplinary professional service provider involved in a large number of prestigious transport projects across the globe. We have delivered large scale transport master plans in the UAE and the wider Middle East. We successfully completed not only the Abu Dhabi Strategic Transport Masterplan, but also the Transport Masterplans for Yas Island, Masdar City, Diyar Al Muharraq, Qatar Pedestrian Masterplan, Abu Dhabi Western Region Cities Transport Masterplan and Dubai Bus Priority Plans. Extensive surveys were conducted and strategic models developed and applied based on CUBE and VISUM/VISSIM suites. www.mottmac.com
www.nationwidedatacollection.co.uk
Paramics
Stand: A7
Paramics Discovery designed by transport modellers, for transport modellers Paramics Microsimulation is delighted to announce the launch of Paramics Discovery - its new microsimulation product to help design, evaluate and present sustainable solutions for today’s traffic problems.
www.inrosoftware.com
www.citilabs.com
DAT. Mobility BV
Nationwide Data Collection
Now, with full Windows compatibility and a brand new easy to use interface, Paramics Discovery offers incredibly fast network construction, streamlined workflow to match the project requirements and tangible outputs which clients will easily understand. The dynamic assignment feature in Paramics Discovery reflects the real life choices drivers make and enables the development of large microsimulation models with route choice. Paramics Discovery offers superb flexibility when modelling the changes that occur on our road networks throughout the day. The new Python Scripting feature provides the ability to detect vehicles anywhere on the network, adjust traffic signals to match live on-street operation and customised outputs. Visit www.paramics.co.uk and try Paramics Discovery for FREE. For further information please contact malcolm.calvert@sias.com : Telephone +44 131 225 7900 www.paramics.co.uk
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EXHIBITORS A-Z Peter Davidson Consultancy
Stand: D3
We are a transport planning consultancy for public transport, highways, cycle, walk and air transport. We specialise in advanced multimodal transport modelling, forecasting and appraisal together with market research and software. Our innovative transport planning software, Visual Choice and Visual-tm combine fast, powerful multi-modal modelling with a friendly user interface. www.peter-davidson.com
PTV Group
Stand: A6
PTV Group is a market leader in the development of transport planning, traffic engineering and logistics planning and optimisation software worldwide. The solutions of PTV Group are cutting-edge and state-of-theart and our clients apply our software on innovative and sustainable projects and designs. The PTV Vision Software suite including Visum, Vissim, Viswalk, Vistro, Safety, Balance, Epics and Optima can cater for every scale needed from strategic transport planning and traffic engineering to operational planning, pedestrian engineering, safety analysis and real-time predictive modelling. The PTV Logistics Software Suite includes solutions for the scheduling and optimisation of transport routes and trips, distribution planning and fleet management as well as truck navigation and parking. PTV has more than 600 members of staff in 15 offices worldwide, including an office in Birmingham, UK, while the global headquarters are located in Karlsruhe, Germany. The success of PTV’s software is attributed to its scientific validity, powerful evaluations and strong visual outputs. PTV’s software is being used to inform complex decisions by consultants, public authorities, private enterprises, academics and third sector organisations in over 120 countries, by enabling them to test and optimise designs, increase energy efficiencies, reduce accidents and communicate concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. PTV Group has a strong team of experienced software developers, research scientists, engineers, planners and business experts, who have inherent knowledge of PTV software. PTV also provides a range of services to its clients to help them use PTV software to its fullest potential, through on-the-job technical support, training courses, software maintenance and advice on modelling tasks for particularly complex projects. www.ptvgroup.com/en
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Systra
Stand: A2
SYSTRA is a leading transport planning and public transport engineering consultancy with over 3,500 employees in 78 countries worldwide. Our centre of excellence for transport planning and modelling is located in the UK, it is built upon more than 45 years of experience. Throughout this period we have been at the forefront of transport modelling, strategy development and appraisal. We have advanced best practice and provided strategic to detailed guidance on the development and application of transport models throughout the UK and overseas. On a daily basis, at SYSTRA we continue to develop and use complex multi-modal models including Transport for Scotland’s LATIS model, city models in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham and county/regional models in Hampshire and the Republic of Ireland. SYSTRA acquired the MVA consultancy in 1993 and rebranded MVA in January 2014.
specialists in survey techniques, transport modelling, data analytics, system development, project management, database design and management, GIS fieldwork and reporting and mobile phone network data analytics. The technologies we use include ANPR, Bluetooth sensing, automatic counting, video analytics, electronic data capture, GIS field applications and mobile phone network data analytics. At Modelling World 2016 Tracsis will showcase data solutions to end-users including our new industry-leading ANPR system, established Bluetooth monitoring system and cutting edge Mobile Phone Network Data analytics as well as our full range of other data collection analysis and reporting techniques. www.tracsis.com
Transport Systems Catapult
Stand: B6
www.systra.co.uk
TomTom
Stand: A5
Get more from Traffic modelling! Founded in 1991, TomTom is the leading independent supplier of global mapping and traffic data. Our high-quality and dynamic digital maps enable class leading transport planning and modelling applications. With TomTom Traffic, modellers from across the globe have access to the next generation in Real time Traffic monitoring. Come and visit our booth and learn how you can get more from your modelling systems. www.tomtom.com/en_gb
The Transport Systems Catapult is one of seven elite technology and innovation centres established and overseen by the UK's innovation agency, Innovate UK. We were created to drive and promote Intelligent Mobility – using new and emerging technologies to transport people and goods more smartly and efficiently. We are helping UK businesses create products and services that meet the needs of the world's transport systems as they respond to everstretching demands. We help sell UK capability on the global stage, while also promoting the UK as a superb test bed for the transportation industry. With a clear emphasis on collaboration, we are bringing together diverse organisations across different modes of transport, breaking down barriers and providing a unique platform for meeting the world's most pressing transport challenges. www.ts.catapult.org.uk
Tracsis
Stand: A3
The Traffic and Data Services division of Tracsis plc is the UK’s largest and longest established provider of transport survey, market research and data consultancy services. We employ over 220 permanent staff operating from eight offices across the UK providing services to transport planners throughout the British Isles and internationally. We utilise the best and most appropriate technology, techniques, skills and experience available to help deliver data solutions to our clients. Our skills and experience base means that we understand transport planning end user needs and is drawn from many sectors including transport consultancy, local authorities, transport operators and software development. Our project teams are created to suit the demands of each project and can include
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TSS
Stand: B3
TSS-Transport Simulation Systems (TSS) develops, markets and supports the Aimsun traffic modelling software environment. Aimsun is the only tool on the market to fully integrate and microscopic and mesoscopic hybrid simulator plus travel demand modelling and macroscopic functionalities in a single software application. TSS also continues to innovate with Aimsun Online, the real-time decision support system for traffic management. Now with offices in Barcelona, London, New York City, Paris, Portland and Sydney, TSS services over 3,600 licensed users in 70 countries, including government agencies, consultancies, academic users and research partners. www.aimsun.com
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09.00 09.30
Delegate registration in the main exhibition hall area INDIA ROOM
MORNING PLENARY: THE USES AND MISUSES OF MODELS Welcome address from Chair Tom van Vuren, Divisional Director, Mott Macdonald
11.00 11.30
PROGRAMME
Making better use of modellers’ time Yaron Hollander, Director, CTthink!
Morning Break Tea and Coffee served in the main exhibition hall area INDIA ROOM
Understanding model use Alice Crossley, Head of Project Modelling and Appraisal, Department for Transport
JOHN MAJOR ROOM
EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL: REDUCING UNCERTAINTY
ACCELERATING MODELS
Chair Graham Fletcher, Transport Systems Catapult
Chair Tom van Vuren, Divisional Director, Mott MacDonald
Ex-post assessment: overcoming challenges Tom Worsley, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Transport Studies, Leeds University
Do we get the transport system we deserve? Appraisal, and the effects of the new VOT Stephen Joseph, Director, Campaign for Better Transport
Segmentation tools: testing options and scenarios that traditional modelling tools struggle to represent Clare Sheffield, Policy Analysis Manager, Transport for London
Strengthening links between appraisal and evaluation Steven Finch, Head of Evaluation, and Robin Cambery, Transport Modeller, Department for Transport
GPU: a step-change in model runtimes Richard Bradley, Technical Director, Intelligent Mobility, Atkins
Alternative GPU friendly assignment algorithms Paul Richmond and Peter Heywood, Department of Computer Science, Sheffield University
Moving transport modelling to High Performance Computers Mark Mawson, Computer Scientist, STFC/Hartree Centre
Big models: NTM and Europe Michael Oliver, PTV Group, Solution Director PTV Visum
Ethics in Transport Modelling Gordon Stokes, Visiting Research Associate, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford
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MODELLING TRAVEL IN THE AGE OF APPS Chair Paul O’Neill, Director, Intelligent Data
Using real-time data in models Dale Campbell, Operational Research & Analytics Manager, Transport for London
Big data processing to facilitate model building Klaus Noekel, Head of Innovation, PTV Group
Better data for modellers Jonathan Raper, TransportAPI
Transformational change and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Martin Higgitt, Associate Director, JMP Systra
Session sponsored by:
14.30
Lunch served in the main exhibition hall area INDIA ROOM
DATA AND VISUALISATION
Chair Luis Willumsen, Independent Consultant, Transport Planning, Demand Modelling and Forecasting
Big data analytics and visualisation to optimise transit operations and planning Matt Pettit, Citilabs/Urban Engines
Urban informatics and urban modelling with big data Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, Urban Big Data Centre, Glasgow University
Mobile phone data and transport modelling: a toll road case study Miguel Picornell, Technical Manager, Kineo/Nommon
Integrating data and models for urban planning and design Eime Tobari, Associate Director, Space Syntax
Session sponsored by:
16.00 16.30
19.00
MODELLING CYCLING AND WALKING
Chair Nicola Troll, Pedestrian Modelling Team Leader, Systra
Unacknowledged delays: new insights from a microsimulation model of bus-cycle interactions Rachel Aldred, Senior Lecturer in Transport, University of Westminster and Luke Best, Multimodal Ltd
Developing a new cycling route choice model for London Ali Inayathusein, Manager - Policy Appraisal & Sub Regional Modelling, Strategic Analysis, Planning, Transport for London
FLOW: Congestion reduction through walking/cycling measures Martin Wedderburn, Walk21
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MODELS: FASTER AND SIMPLER Chair Hugh Neffendorf, Katalysis Limited
Transim: Rapid web-based filtering of heavy transit provision and routing options Marc Joly, Technical Unit, Systra
Dynamic flow model analysis for large-scale networks Martijn Breen, Scientific Software Developer, Aimsun
A new data model: integrating existing datasets Chris Sharpe, Director, Holistic City
Session sponsored by:
Informing cycling investment: The National Propensity to Cycle Tool for England (PCT-England) Anna Goodman, National Propensity to Cycle Tool team, CEDAR, Cambridge University
Afternoon Break Tea and Coffee served in the main exhibition hall area INDIA ROOM
DRIVERS OF CHANGE: TOWARDS TOMORROW’S MODELS Chair Simon Nielsen, Head of Strategic Analysis, Transport for London
17.45
JOHN MAJOR ROOM
Drinks reception
Complexity in land use transportation models Mike Batty, Chairman, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
What if? The future is unwritten: scenarios in public health and transport modelling James Woodcock, Programme Lead, Public Health Modelling, CEDAR, Cambridge University
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