With 30 years’ consultancy experience, Neil is an expert in transport strategy and public policy. He directs and manages high-profile strategy and policy studies for public and private sector clients.
Neil leads strategy development, business case and funding studies. He often works with multi-organisation clients developing policies plans and programmes, as well as with clients taking forward business cases and powers applications. He is experienced briefing and engaging Ministers, MPs, local councillors and business groups, as well as the public. Neil has worked extensively across the UK, the Middle East, Australia and the Republic of Ireland.
Neil heads our UK-wide strategy and economics team. He is also one of our directors based in our Leeds office with a wider responsibility for our work and clients in the North of England.
The Department for Transport has been consulting on whether it should extend the appraisal period for transport schemes beyond the current 60 years. At the root of the question is the recognition that some transport interventions have a life longer than the appraisal period and can continue to give benefits long after the 60 years that are considered.
Read moreA new version of the Green Book has been published. It is the Green Book that sets the framework for how the UK Government appraises its spending decisions and also how it subsequently evaluates these.
Read moreYesterday we set out three factors that we think will determine the future rate and scale of public transport use. The new lockdown in England will lead to an immediate drop in the use of public transport. But over time restrictions will be relaxed. How may the first of our three factors affect the future demand for travel by bus and rail?
Read moreIn July we asked the question: what will transport look like after the Covid-19 shock. Our view then and now is that the form and timing of any medical resolution of the Covid crisis is the first order uncertainty. We said this would drive the direction of behavioural and policy responses and what this means to the economy, people’s activity and transport demand.
Read moreSteer has produced a new report for the Urban Transport Group, the UK’s network of city region transport authorities, highlighting the risk to local public transport services should the UK government cease COVID-19 financial support.
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