Dr Nick Ayland BSc, PhD, Eurlng, CEng, MICE
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Nick has 20 years experience in the design and assessment of sustainable transport systems, strategies and measures. He has expertise covering many aspects of sustainable transport, which he has built up through work in the UK, Europe and North America . Nick is a widely recognised expert on transport demand management - including congestion charging, parking charges, access control and "soft" measures such as travel plans and sustainable access strategies. As well as undertaking local and national projects in these areas, he has made significant contributions to national guidance for UK local authorities. Another of Nick’s main areas of professional experience is intelligent transport systems (ITS), where he has worked on research studies and on development and evaluation of new systems. This includes use of ITS for traffic law enforcement, for provision of traveller information, and for traffic monitoring and control. His evaluation work has been wide-ranging and has covered attitudinal studies, behavioural research and assessment of traffic and environmental impacts, as well as socio-economic evaluation and cost-benefit analysis. Nick is also an expert on the emission and energy consumption impacts of transport strategies and has played a leading role in a number of studies in this area. These have ranged from local studies of emission and energy consumption impacts of new transport measures through to pan-European projects that have developed and used new methodologies and models for impact assessment. Dr Ayland has recently acted as an expert witness on behalf of Fife Council, giving evidence at the 2004 Public Inquiry into Congestion Charging in Edinburgh. He has also been an invited expert evaluator and reviewer working for the European Commission on evaluation of projects and proposals. Nick has chaired conference sessions and seminars and made many presentations to international audiences. |
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