I am an Associate in Arup’s Intelligent Mobility Team with over 15 years’ experience in CITS, automated vehicles, digital transport, and active travel. I am a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the CIHT.

My experience in this field starts in earnest with as part of the Midlands Future Mobility CAV Testbed Consortium around 2020. The team and I developed the platform onto which roadside units and AVs would share data during on-road, real-world testing. My role focused on data integration and sharing practices for AV deployment and involved collaboration with multiple stakeholders to define over 200 miles of static and dynamic road features in the platform.

Following this, I managed several CITS projects in the West Midlands. These projects, including the Midlands Connect In-Vehicle Messaging Service, centred on introducing connectivity features to transport infrastructure. They enabled data exchange between vehicles and networks, developing interoperable systems designed to support improved safety, efficiency, and decision-making across the West Midlands transport network.

More recently, I have continued working on future mobility projects, with highlights including:
• National Highways – Impact of Automated Vehicles on the Motorway Network: I led the team in conducting primary research and engaging stakeholders to understand AV Act impacts. We reviewed legal requirements; investigated expected behaviours of AVs inside, and outside, their ODD; and explored potential frameworks for measuring safety impact. This project was nominated for an ITSUK 2025 CAV Award, and a subsequent paper was accepted to the 2026 Transport Research Arena Conference.
• TfGM / Verne – Optimal AV Data Exchanges: I examined how removing data exchange obstacles between AV robotaxi operators and transport authorities could improve network management, expand transport options, reduce congestion, and lower carbon emissions.
• DfT AV Data Discovery: Currently working with the DfT under the AV Act Implementation Programme, to explore a unified solution for managing the data needed to implement AVs into UK roads. Utilising broad stakeholder engagement within government and with external AV OEMs to understand the challenge.
• Dubai Unified Traffic Incident Management Platform (UTIMP): I led the stakeholder engagement and global benchmarking as Dubai’s RTA seeks to develop a unified, and future-facing, platform for the better management of road incidents, including predictive capabilities, ingestion of connected vehicle public and private transport data, and intelligence-driven transport decisions.
• Transport for Wales Cycle Hire: I led a team to develop a data-driven approach to map out the demand for cycle hire across Wales. Using modal shift propensity, commercial viability, and deprivation indices as key drivers, we used GIS to analyse a wide variety of data sets and map out the relative levels of demand for cycle hire, to target the best locations for newer rollouts.

In addition to project experience, I support external engagement with the industry. I arranged the UK/London portion of the Australian Centre for Connected and Automated Transport (CCAT) visit in 2023. This included visits to key AV sites and businesses in London, and delivering an ITSUK joint event for knowledge exchange between UK and Australian CAV and CITS experts.