BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

MASS TRANSIT SCHEMES

New York City Transit:
Re-design of South Ferry Terminal station

London Crossrail 2:
Technical and Systems study: timetable design to optimise route capacity/congestion relief to underground and surface rail network.

LUL East London Line:
Pre-Franchise award work 2005
Evaluation of timetable options
Feasibility report on extension options

London THAMESLINK PROJECT:
Timetable performance study
Critical audit of performance integrity

GLASGOW CROSSRAIL:
Audits of proposed investment to maximise earning potential/match
expenditure to business case

LONDON CROSSRAIL 1 PROJECT:
Development of outer suburban timetable, maximisation of earning capacity/private finance options

UK HEAVY RAIL OPERATIONS

CHINGFORD-STRATFORD:
Feasibility study of service re-instatement; signalling/pway redesign.

UK RAIL WEAR STUDY:
Operating advisor for major UK-wide study of rail wear factors: wear analysis and study of contributory causes.

CARDIFF VALLEY RAILWAYS:
Timetabling and infrastructure studies for enhanced passenger and freight
services to optimise capacity / maximise revenue

HIGH CUBE FREIGHT ROUTING STUDY:
A study of alternative route options to the WCML for "Piggyback" and other
high cube freight traffic

NEWPORT (S WALES) Layout Rationalisation:
Assessment of traffic specification for simplified track and signalling layout

WATFORD (Croxley Link):
Feasibility study / timetabling exercise for proposed LUL Metropolitan line extension to Watford Jn; track and signalling re-design

SCOTRAIL SLEEPER SERVICES:
Development plan to cover marketing, operations and re-equipment of up-graded services / maximise revenue potential

AXMINSTER-LYME REGIS BRANCH:
Feasibility report into the practicality and costs of rail service reinstatement

JOINT LRT / HEAVY RAIL OPERATIONS

South Hants Phase II: Nottingham Area
Feasibility studies of combined Heavy and Light rail opportunities in these areas

FREIGHT/PASSENGER TERMINAL SCHEMES: Miscellaneous Feasibility Studies

Stowmarket: Multimodal Distribution Park
Rail connection design options

NE Chelmsford New Station: pre-feasibility study

Multimodal Study of M25 Zone (ORBIT): responsible for rail passenger and freight input into major government-sponsored study.

NE England Power Station
Investigation of options for coal servicing to optimise costs

New freight terminal schemes at Stratford (East London), Rainham, Pitsea, Chorley and Guildford (passenger)

Rail Maintenance Regime
Study of existing maintenance regime for intensively used track infrastructures; identification of cost saving options, Waterloo, Clapham Jn and Birmingham areas

INTERNATIONAL WORK

KASHAGAN (KAZAKHSTAN) Oil Project: study of routing options for export oil output

IRAN: National Rail Strategy
Compilation of short and long term action plans: commercialisation of management structure

AFGHANISTAN: Pre-feasibility design of new 2000km rail system: integration with Central Asian rail networks: structure of Afghan rail authority: supervision of rail operations

ALBANIA: compilation of National Rail Strategy Plan

ROMANIA: modernisation of management structure and passenger/freight operations

KAZAKHSTAN: development of rail privatisation plans.

MACEDONIA: study of transport investment options.

HUNGARY: modernisation of strategic rail corridors

RUSSIA: Rail modernisation studies - Nizhni Novgorod / TEN Corridors II (Berlin - Moscow) and IX (Black Sea - Baltic) routes

POLAND / ESTONIA: Team leader for rail modernisation studies in Poznan, Wroclaw, Katowice and Tallinn

ETHIOPIA: modernisation and re-equipment feasibility study of the Djibouti - Addis Adeba railway

PUBLICATIONS
May 1998 "A Study of Automatic Gauge Changing Systems" produced for TACIS Services DG1A, European Commission, Brussels
Oct 1998 AiC Conference; London, Subject "ìIntegrating Europe's Rail Network"; co-presented final paper on "Cost Benefit Analysis of Integration"