Transport consultant JMP is carrying out consultation and detailed design for streetscape improvements close by Rotherhithe Railway Station and the adjacent Brunel Museum in the London Borough of Southwark. In response to the future travel dema...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned as part of a BDP-led multi-disciplinary team to provide transport expertise in a regeneration study for the centre of the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall. The project, for Rossendale Borough Council, w...

Transport planner JMP has been appointed by the London Borough of Enfield to review the existing town centre Controlled Parking Zone and to analyse the operation of Pay and Display parking in the Borough. The CPZ review will investigate the cur...

Transport consultant JMP is surveying pedestrian movements, parking operations and traffic flows along three corridors in the London Borough of Waltham Forest to allow informed design decisions for future improvements to network operations and the...

Transport planner JMP has made a number of promotions including principal and senior transport planners and senior engineers. Helen Cumiskey and Rhian Lewis, both in the Liverpool office, Kelly Aldridge and Tom Derstroff, both London and James ...

Transport planner JMP is helping to provide a framework for the five Tees Valley authorities of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees in which they can finalise their third generation Local Transport Plans ...

A 19th Century market square in the ancient town of Crowle in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, has been returned to its roots following detailed design work by transport planner and engineer JMP. Car parking which dominated the Market ...

Transport planner JMP has named five new associate directors and two new associates in its annual promotions. Three of the new associate directors are in the Glasgow office. John McDonald who joined JMP nearly five years ago and Alan DeVenny, ...

Transport planner JMP has been appointed by West Sussex County Council to potentially help to stem the high levels of daytime on-street commuter parking in Burgess Hill town centre, thought to be largely associated with the proximity of the railwa...

After two years of introducing personalised travel planning to Merseyside and achieving annual reductions of 7.1 per cent and 10.2 per cent in car use, transport planner JMP has launched a third initiative, this time in the West Derby area of Live...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned by the London Borough of Brent to undertake an outline and assessment design of options to improve the Wembley Triangle/South Way Junction and Bridge Complex, which falls within the Wembley Masterplan ar...

Transport planner JMP has been appointed by Gloucestershire County Council to assist in a county-wide review of arrangements for transporting 2,000 pupils with special educational needs between home and school. The objective is to achieve budge...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned by the Right Care Right Here Programme to help to develop a travel and access strategy for nine health and social care providers across Sandwell and the Heart of Birmingham. NHS Trusts and local autho...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned by the Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (YDRMT) to establish the benefits to be gained from reconnecting the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway to the main line network at Skipton. The railway currentl...

Travel advisers from transport planner JMP are to visit 5,000 homes in Tewkesbury to encourage people to change their travel habits, in particular to walk and cycle more frequently. The consultant is working for ‘Count Me In!’, the Tewkesbury ‘...

Transport planner JMP has recruited Jana Haspicova as a senior transport planner in its Birmingham office where she will be involved in travel planning. Jana, who specialises in transport strategy and policy, joins from MVA in Edinburgh where s...

A travel plan has been developed for 3,000-plus employees in businesses at Exchange Quay, Salford, Manchester, and it will be formally launched on Thursday, May 27. Exchange Quay, the half million square foot office complex, which accommodates ...

Transport planner JMP has won two major contracts with Bracknell Borough Council, one of them to take over the provision of its day-to-day public transport co-ordination function for four years. The second appointment is to the council’s Transpor...

Transport planner JMP has been appointed by Qatari Diar to provide transport consultancy services in connection with the new vision for the Chelsea Barracks site redevelopment in London. The Masterplan, being created by Dixon Jones, Squire and...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned by Burnley Council, along with project partner BDP, to develop options for the further development of Burnley Education & Enterprise Park. The first phase of the Park was the successful development of...

It is not a case of “Do what I say, not what I do” when it comes to advising clients on sustainable travel planning. Transport planner JMP really does “Walk the Talk”. Its own carbon footprint-based travel plan for its 11 countrywide offices ha...

Transport planner JMP is assessing and designing a public transport corridor to serve a new Thames waterside neighbourhood planned for the Royal Albert Basin in Beckton, East London. The vision for the masterplan is a neighbourhood with strong ...

Transport planner JMP is joining forces with Dundee City Council in telling selfish school- run parents in no uncertain terms ‘Don’t Park Here’, as a drive gets under way to improve safety outside the city’s primary schools. Cones will be plac...

Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency for Yorkshire and Humber, has appointed transport consultant JMP as the Regional DaSTS Programme Manager, to help the region to manage its programme of work in developing long term transport prior...

A revolutionary new material first used for kitchen sinks and worktops and also in bathrooms is being applied in the design of ground-breaking wave-shaped bus shelters on Tyneside. Transport planner and engineer JMP was appointed by Gateshead C...

A major scheme business case prepared by transport planner JMP for a £7.2 million A18-A180 link road to remove heavy goods vehicles from the port town of Immingham may attract £6.4 million of government funding. JMP was commissioned by North Ea...

London Borough of Haringey has enlisted the help of transport planner JMP to help it with its aspiration to become one of the first of the Mayor of London’s ‘Biking Boroughs ‘, with associated Cycling Hubs, JMP will be supporting and developin...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned by the unitary authority Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC) to develop a staff and corporate business travel strategy for its 14,000 staff. CWaC was formed in April 2009 following local governme...

Transport planner JMP, which already has a personal travel planning commission for the Dundee Travel Active project well under its belt, has now won a second PTP, this time for GoSmart Dumfries. GoSmart Dumfries is one of seven Scottish Sustai...

Transport consultant JMP has been commissioned by the Clear Zone Partnership to undertake an ‘after’ study of a newly implemented scheme in Great Queen Street to remove traffic lights and create a shared space on the edge of Covent Garden, central...

Transport planner JMP is working with Warrington Borough Council for the next 12 months to assist in the development of its third Local Transport Plan (LTP3) containing a long term strategy for the Borough. The LTP3 will be submitted to Governm...

Transport planner JMP has recruited John Pinkard, an expert in travel behaviour, as an Associate Director with a company-wide remit. Initially he will focus his activity on Scotland and the Midlands and be contactable through the Birmingham office...

Transport planner JMP has built an evaluation framework for Brighton and Hove City Council for use in the development of its Safer Routes to School programme. The Department for Transport-designated Cycling City has identified safety and encour...

Transport planner JMP has promoted Victoria Balboa at its London Docklands office to director. Victoria, who was an associate director, has been with the consultancy since 1999 and has responsibility for development planning. JMP chief exec...

Transport planner JMP has won a term commission from Hampshire County Council Property Services Transport Planning Framework to take forward the County’s development portfolio, providing input into highways issues for its sites and the planning pr...

Transport planner JMP, in partnership with economic and regeneration advisors Genecon, is working with ONE North East, the Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit and the Highways Agency to develop the Tees Valley City Region’s long term transport priori...

Transport planner JMP has won its latest significant commission under a major masterplanning framework agreement aimed at revitalising many town and city centres throughout Northern Ireland. The latest commission is to prepare a paramics micros...

Transport planner JMP has successfully renewed term commissions in East Renfrewshire, Scotland and the London Borough of Enfield, ensuring the continuation of long term relationships with both clients. In Enfield JMP has now been appointed to t...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has appointed Martin Lloyd an associate director to look after the consultancy’s development planning interests in Wales and the South West. A Fellow of the Institute of Highways and Incorporated Engineers, he...

Transport planner JMP is exploring the extent to which poor transport accessibility in North West England contributes to deprivation, as part of a study into delivering a sustainable transport system The study commissioned by 4NW, the Regional...

Transport planner JMP has designed the public highway and associated surface and foul drainage infrastructure for the first phase of a housing development on council-owned brownfield land close to Barking Town Centre. Phase 1 of the 2.5 hectare...

JMP has been appointed by Somerset County Council to provide transport planning advice for the assessment of the proposed Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station, a proposal by EDF for twin reactors that will generate about six percent of Britain’s ...

Transport planner JMP, which is already working with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council on developing its third Local Transport Plan (LTP3), has now been commissioned to produce the accompanying strategic environmental assessment (SEA). The L...

Transport planner JMP has carried out highway investigations for a proposed major development in Blackpool that would open up a new approach into the popular seaside town and the Fylde and could create 5,000 to 10,000 new jobs. If the proposal ...

Transport planner JMP’s office in Newcastle has won a Gold Award for its innovative carbon footprint-based Office Travel Plan. The gold accreditation has been awarded by Tyne & Wear Smarter Choices Team for the office’s ability to demonstrate a...

Following the completion of scoping and feasibility studies for the Route 97 Third Generation Bus Priority corridor in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, transport planner JMP is now developing a package of traffic management measures through t...

Transport planner JMP is undertaking two transport studies for Burnley Borough Council as part of 15 year Area Action Plans to breathe life back into two areas which have suffered from industrial and housing decline. The studies are designed to...

A report by transport consultants JMP into the wider economic and social impacts of re-opening the TransPennine railway between Skipton and Colne was the trigger for a major conference organised by the Skipton East Lancashire Rail Action Partnersh...

The feasibility of establishing freight consolidation centres to ease traffic congestion and air and environmental pollution in Perth and Dundee is being studied by transport planner JMP. Tactran, the regional transport partnership for Dundee C...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has been commissioned by North Lanarkshire Council for the preliminary and detailed design of a single storey car park deck above an existing at-grade car park to improve parking capacity in Airdrie town centre. ...

The first personalised travel plan (PTP) project in Tyne and Wear is being developed through a partnership between transport planner JMP and Tyne and Wear Smarter Choices Team. Some 2,000 households are being targeted in the Low Fell area of Ga...

Transport planner JMP is working with Tactran, the regional transport partnership covering Perth & Kinross, Stirling, Angus and Dundee City, to develop a Health & Transport Action Plan to improve the integration between transport and healthcare in...

Transport planner JMP is providing transport and highway advice in support of an outline planning application with access arrangements for a 15.5 hectare business estate in the Lake District National Park. The £70million-plus estate is proposed...

Transport planner JMP has assisted the Smarter Travel team at London Borough Richmond upon Thames (STR) to set up two ‘Connecting Businesses’ travel plan networks. They are designed to engage local businesses in travel planning and to introduc...

Transport planner JMP has provided transport and highways advice for a four hectare expansion of Kent Science Park near Sittingbourne which will ultimately lead to 500 new jobs. Kent Science Park (KSP) has been granted planning consent by Swale...

Transport planner JMP has piloted a new standard to help planners to measure how far people should have to travel from their homes to buy healthy food, in particular fruit and vegetables. The new standard, developed for the Department of Health...

Transport planner JMP has provided transport and highways expertise for the proposed redevelopment of a brownfield site on London’s Isle of Dogs into a hotel-led referable scheme of 305 boutique hotel suites, conference facilities, gymnasium, swim...

Transport planner JMP is developing a microsimulation tool to investigate the impact of transport schemes and proposed developments in the Warwickshire borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth up to 2016 and 2026. The modelling project has been awarded...

Transport planner and engineer JMP Consultants has promoted Associates Dawn Guegan and Philip Marshall to Associate Directors and appointed Ian Coles and Robert Tams as new Associates. Dawn Guegan in the Birmingham office joined JMP from Atkins...

Transport planner JMP has provided transport, flood risk and drainage expertise for a proposed Eco Quarter on land adjoining the committed section of the Bognor Regis Relief Road to the north west of the West Sussex town. The planning applicat...

Although it only came into being on April 1 the Cheshire East Council is already looking to reduce its carbon footprint. The council, formed out of part of Cheshire County Council and the Macclesfield, Congleton and Crewe & Nantwich borough cou...

A Victorian garden square in Southend-on-Sea, which in its present form discourages visitors and often attracts anti-social behaviour, is to be transformed by a multi-disciplinary team that includes transport planner JMP. The aspiration of the...

The people of Greater Glasgow appear to be flexible in their view of how to get about their city. They are as happy to get on a bus, train or walk as they are to use their car, as long it makes sense for them to do so in terms of convenience, time...

Since Sutton became London’s first “sustainable borough” with the launch of Smarter Travel Sutton three years ago, the project has seen a 50% increase in cycling since last year, a 13 % increase in bus use and a reduction in car trips. Now tran...

Natural England, the independent body dedicated to promoting a healthy natural environment, has selected a Rights of Way Improvement Plan (ROWIP) developed by JMP Consultants as an example of best practice. The plan, commissioned by Warrington ...

Senior transport planner Amy Tigg from JMP Consultants’ Glasgow office has been named the Institution of Highways and Transportation’s “Young Transportation Professional of the Year 2009”. Amy, who has been with JMP for three and a half years, ...

Transport planner JMP is working with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council to develop its third Local Transport Plan (LTP3), containing a long term strategy for the Riding, together with separate implementation plans. The LTP3, which has to be ...

Transport planner JMP is working as part of a team designing new bus and railway stations, both significant components of a £100 million Wolverhampton Interchange scheme linked across the city’s ring road. The project, with its associated hotel...

The Highways Agency’s Influencing Travel Behaviour programme is designed to promote sustainable travel and reduce congestion on England's 'strategic road network'. Through this the Agency aims to cut congestion and improve journey time reliability...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned by Lambeth College to prepare a transport assessment to support a new planning application for redevelopment of its Brixton Centre campus in South London. The proposal is to demolish existing building...

Some 13,500 Dundee homes are to be contacted over the next 18 months by transport planner JMP in a determined bid to encourage the city’s residents to improve their health by walking and cycling more. By also engaging university students, schoo...

Increasing the number of trains on the Aberdeen/Edinburgh line from one to two per hour, calling at Leuchars in Fife, is attracting commuters and putting pressure on capacity at the town’s railway station car park. Couple this with the fact tha...

Transport planner JMP has urged that work should begin at the earliest possible opportunity on a park and ride/choose site on the southern side of the Tay Road Bridge to discourage car traffic into Dundee. The consultant has recommended expandi...

Transport planner JMP is preparing a Travel Plan for a new prison being built in Scotland in a move to encourage staff and visitors to cut down on private car use and instead move to more sustainable modes of transport. The new prison is being ...

Chartered planner Deborah Livingstone has returned to the Glasgow office of transport planner and engineer JMP as a senior transport planner after eighteen months working as a planner with the DPP town planning consultancy. She had previously w...

Transport planner and engineer JMP is advising on expanding the benefits of the real time passenger information system available to bus passengers in Aberdeen city to also include Aberdeenshire. As well as examining the possible extension to en...

Transport planner JMP has developed an interactive scoring tool for the identification and prioritisation of 20mph zones on behalf of Gateshead Council. Gateshead Speed Management Plan outlined a road hierarchy where residential areas, local c...

Transport planner JMP is developing proposals for new local or community bus services to improve accessibility to employment, services and facilities in West Yorkshire. The outcome will support a future application from Metro (West Yorkshire P...

Transport planner and engineer JMP is helping the National Trust with a key bridge project as part of its most ambitious landscape-scale habitat restoration project, the Wick Fen Vision in Cambridgeshire. National Trust has appointed JMP, toget...

Regeneration of the Mardyke Estate in Rainham has moved a step closer following the submission of a detailed planning application for the first phase of the scheme, supported by a transport statement by transport planner JMP. The scheme as a wh...

Transport planner JMP has been appointed for an initial two years, with the option of a two year extension, as a consultant in three categories for the South Lanarkshire Council Framework. JMP can be called upon to provide services in roads des...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has moved its Newcastle-upon-Tyne activities into new offices in the middle of the city’s prestigious Quayside regeneration area close to Millennium Bridge. For the past eight years JMP has been operating out ...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned by NHS County Durham to evaluate an innovative approach to providing transport to hospital appointments and for visiting. A new service provides transport for people in East Durham to access five hosp...

Sustrans, the impetus behind the national cycle network project, has commissioned transport planner JMP to prepare an economic assessment of the benefits that the Spen Valley Greenway in West Yorkshire brings to the local community. The Greenw...

Transport planner JMP is assisting Mid-Cheshire College with the implementation of a Travel Plan for its Hartford Campus near Northwich, Cheshire, which it hopes could eventually embrace some ten other educational sites in close proximity. Alth...

The employee-owned transport planning and engineering consultancy JMP Consultants Ltd is forming a new executive board with a chairman and a chief executive officer to replace its existing managing director-led structure. The new chairman Gordo...

Planning permission is now being sought for the first two phases of Barking Riverside, a nationally significant regeneration project for which transport planner JMP has designed the streets and the integration of local transport. An initial 4,0...

Transport planners JMP has been commissioned to research the handling of bus complaints in England (outside London) for leading consumer watchdog Passenger Focus. Passenger Focus is the independent statutory watchdog for rail passengers, and ...

Planning permission is now being sought for the first two phases of Barking Riverside, a nationally significant regeneration project. An initial 4,000 homes are planned on the bank of the Thames at Barking Reach - ultimately there will be some ...

Transport planner JMP was the sole UK representative in a nine nation team that has won the Sustainable Energy Europe Award in a programme run by the European Commission aimed at promoting eco objectives among the young. CONNECT, the name unde...

Transport planner JMP has won a further significant commission under a major masterplanning framework agreement led by the Paul Hogarth Company that is aimed at revitalising many town and city centres throughout Northern Ireland. JMP has been a...

Familiarity with the internet, telephone and texting still hasn’t replaced paper-based documents as the most popular source for information on public transport, according to a sample taken by transport planner JMP among bus users in Leicestershire...

A pioneering scheme designed by transport planner JMP that uses technology to track buses and measure their punctuality has been launched in Dundee, It is the first time in Scotland a Bus Punctuality Improvement Partnership between local counci...

Transport planner JMP has advised on road and pedestrian access to overcome accessibility constraints on a site planned for development in Liverpool city centre for leisure, hotel, retail and residential purposes. Central Regeneration has appli...

Transport planner JMP is helping the National Trust with its most ambitious landscape-scale habitat restoration project, the Wicken Fen Vision in Cambridgeshire. The National Trust has appointed JMP, together with Transport for Leisure, to prep...

Transport planner JMP is helping the Scottish town of Alyth (population 2,000) to investigate setting up a communal “hot desk” facility to encourage locals to abandon the daily commute to work. It is one of a range of initiatives being pioneere...

Warrington Borough Council has appointed transport planner JMP as a consultant on its Transport Consultancy Framework for a period of up to four years. The consultancy work involves all facets of transport planning and modelling, highway design...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has recruited Timothy Hapgood from Bristol City Council as a senior transport planner based in its London Docklands office. He had worked at Bristol for five years, latterly as a member of the Policy and Progr...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has prepared a car parking strategy linked to a regeneration plan for the pretty Cumbrian harbourside town of Whitehaven, which is seeking to increase its tourism appeal. The town has about a dozen car parks, ...

Transport planner JMP is assisting in the design of a signing strategy, with variable message signing, for up to ten car parks in the Irish town of Dundalk, Co. Louth. The project, commissioned by Dundalk Town Council, includes the identificati...

Transport planner JMP has been commissioned to provide an update statement on the North East Regional Rail Strategy, to include all wide ranging developments in the region and the rail industry since the current strategy was adopted four years ago...

Transport planner JMP is working on expanding Argyll and Bute’s small-scale Real Time Passenger Information System that currently includes long distance bus corridors linking Oban and Campbeltown with Glasgow and a handful of local services in...

Transport planner JMP has been named “commended runner-up” in the Consultant category of a national awards scheme promoting carbon reduction . . . even though there was no category winner. The judges for the Institute of Transport Management’s ...

On behalf of the Highways Agency, Flintshire County Council and Wirral Council, JMP are undertaking a feasibility study at Deeside Industrial Park in North Wales in order to assess the likely effectiveness that the introduction of an Influencing T...

Transport planner JMP, which “grows its own managers”, has won through to a place in the finals of the National Training Awards 2008. JMP successfully introduced an “Emerging Managers” training programme to help middle managers to bridge the ga...

WWF-UK and transport planner JMP have joined forces in challenging companies and government agencies to cut one in five business flights within five years and make a big impact on their carbon footprints. JMP has been commissioned to design and...

Transport planner JMP is advising the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) on the development of a long-term transport strategy for the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), in an extensive study that will shape networks, developments and future travel pattern...

Two consultancies that specialise in strategic transport advice have been commissioned to assist in identifying the East of England region’s transport investment priorities through to 2018/19. MRC McLean Hazel and JMP have been appointed by a p...

Over 50 local authority planning and transport professionals, from across the north of England, attended a JMP workshop in Manchester on 16 September, on ‘transport and land-use plans’. The half-day event started with an excellent presentation ...

One of the biggest travel projects of its kind outside London was launched in Merseyside this summer. JMP has been appointed by the Merseyside Local Transport Plan Partnership to manage the Personal Travel Planning project from 2008 – 2011. Th...

JMP has been commissioned by the London Borough of Enfield to undertake a strategic review of the processes and criteria used for the provision of disabled person’s parking bays across the Borough. The work is in line with the reform being carr...

Transport planner and engineer JMP is to provide transport consultancy advice for the regeneration of the Mardyke Estate in Rainham. London Borough of Havering. The scheme will involve the replacement or refurbishment of about 546 homes on the ...

The Highways Agency is working with Manchester Airport and travel planner JMP to develop an area-wide travel plan for the airport’s ‘Westside’ where about 2,00 people are employed. The plan focuses on the World Freight Terminal, which is situa...

Transport planner JMP has played a key role in helping Dundee City Council and East Renfrewshire Council to win financial support for their green travel plans from the Scottish Government’s £15m Smarter Choices Smarter Places initiative. Dundee...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has recruited Chris Sibthorpe as an Associate Director to manage the consultancy’s transport planning team in its London Docklands office. Previously he was a managing consultant at Atkins, where he had worked...

Transport planner JMP has teamed up with Bath, Exeter and Surrey Universities to establish a centre of excellence in travel behaviour change. The Centre for Transport and Psychology will provide a lead in travel behaviour change for public sect...

Transport planner JMP has provided a transport assessment and travel plan for Harrow Estates plc to support the successful planning bid for a new 1,100-home “village” on a 44-acre former chemical works site in east Manchester. Master developer ...

Transport planner JMP has provided transport and highways consultancy services to support a successful planning application to redevelop property within London’s famous Hatton Garden jewellery quarter. Diamondpool Limited has received consent f...

Four regional transport priority schemes totalling £26.4million, identified as priorities by transport planner JMP in an interim review, are being submitted by Yorkshire and Humber Regional Transport Board to government under the Regional Funding ...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has been given the job of redesigning the highway and pedestrian areas immediately outside Blackpool’s iconic Tower as part of the town’s seafront regeneration. Blackpool Council wants to see greater freedom a...

A “hearts and minds” campaign to encourage more people to use buses in Cornwall is being waged by transport planners JMP. Cornwall County Council wants to reach what it calls “the middle 50% of society” – those who currently do not use the bus ...

JMP Consultants, the transport planner and engineer, has moved its Lichfield area Midland office and 50-strong staff from Shenstone Business Park to new-build premises in Lichfield city centre, close to the City railway station. Richard Pettitt...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has promoted Martin Higgitt, Steve Pickard and Jon Bunney as new Associate Directors. All were previously Associates. Higgitt who joined JMP’s Leeds office last October is part of the Smarter Choices team in t...

JMP, the transport planner and engineer, has established travel patterns and indicators in Woolwich town centre in preparation for extension into the town early next year of the Docklands Light Railway with a station at Woolwich Arsenal. The DL...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has recruited Dawn Guegan as an Associate in its Birmingham office. She has joined from Atkins where she was a managing consultant and has completed a full time MBA. Previously she worked for nine years in the...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has recruited Dawn Guegan as an Associate in its Birmingham office. She has joined from Atkins where she was a managing consultant and has completed a full time MBA. Previously she worked for nine years in th...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has been appointed to the lead role as Transport Scotland’s development planning/management adviser and auditor in a new term commission lasting for at least three years. The appointment adds to about 12 years...

Transport planner and engineer JMP is helping Bedfordshire County Council with a push for more sustainable travel to school in the county. School and college travel plans will be at the heart of a full Sustainable Travel Modes Strategy for Lear...

Jonathan Green is leaving Defra to join transport planner and engineer JMP as an Associate on its carbon reduction team. He will be working with businesses and organisations that want a better understanding of the issues with a view to reducing...

Transport planner and engineer JMP is developing a multi-modal model to investigate the impact of transport schemes and proposed developments on Blackpool town centre and surrounding areas. Blackpool Borough Council and the urban regeneration c...

Jessica Anderson was installed as Chair for the 2008/09 session of the North Eastern Branch of the IHT (Institution of Highways & Transportation) at the 55th AGM held in the Vermont Hotel, Castle Garth, Newcastle on 15th May 2008. The AGM was foll...

Bruce Allan, former Transport Policy Manager for Blackpool Council, has joined transport planner and engineer JMP as an Associate Director in its Manchester office. He specialises in transport strategy development and before working for Blackpo...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has helped London Borough of Brent in unlocking highway land to provide greater potential for redevelopment and expansion of shopping and housing in Church End, Harlesden. The £2 million transportation improve...

Large-scale implementation of current policies for reducing carbon emissions of transport will not enable the Yorkshire and Humber Region to meet emission target levels set for 2021. The best that can be achieved without even more radical measu...

After 35 years working in local authority Frederick Abercrombie has joined the Glasgow office of transport planner and engineer JMP as a principal engineer in road design. He was previously a principal engineer in the transportation section at ...

Up to 30,000 households in the Merseyside area are to be offered personalised travel planning (PTP) advice by transport planning consultants JMP, the first PTP project of its size to promote sustainable transport in a metropolitan area outside of ...

Transport planner and engineer JMP has recruited Ben Dobson as an Associate in its Newcastle office with a brief to build upon the consultancy’s intelligent transport systems expertise. Ben was previously a principal consultant in the transport...

JMP has been commissioned by the PXP West Midlands consortium to provide transportation input for a regeneration development of 300 new homes in Smethwick, West Midlands. As part of a multi-disciplinary team of planners, engineers and architect...

JMP, the transport planner and engineer, has made a number of senior promotions including the appointment of Paul Smith as a director in the Central London office. Paul who joined JMP in 2004 specialises in development planning and urban design...

JMP has rebranded nationally to underline its sustainability credentials in transport planning and engineering, and at the same time moved its Birmingham offices to new premises to accommodate its growth to 25 staff from first opening two years. ...

After a break of 40 years, passenger rail services are to return to Alloa in Clackmannanshire from 18 May and JMP has won the job of ensuring that as many of the Wee County residents as possible have access to the station by integration of bus and...

JMP has recruited Peter Harries (AffCILT) as an Associate in its central London office where he will specialise in demand forecasting, scheme appraisal and public transport studies. He has joined from Atkins where he had been carrying out simil...

JMP has been commissioned by the Murray Hall Community Trust to examine ways of best meeting the transport needs of people living with cancer in Sandwell and neighbouring areas of Birmingham. The Sandwell-based charity has a programme called Ma...

Visitors to Dundee from south of the Tay may soon be encouraged to leave their cars in park and ride or park and choose facilities and travel over the Firth and into the city by bus, train or car sharing. JMP has been commissioned for the Cross...

JMP has provided the highways and transportation planning and detailed design input for The Rock, an ambitious £330 million mixed use development underway in the centre of the Lancashire town of Bury. An integral part of the project, the £10 mi...

JMP Consulting has been selected as the street designer for the first two stages of the Barking Riverside regeneration project, which will see the design of the first 4,000 homes for one of the most important new communities in London. Eventual...

Ian Turvey has rejoined JMP Consulting as a Consultant Director after ten years away. He will work on a part time basis and continue with his other interest in Turvey Consultancy. His leading reputation in transport-related environmental work, ...

Research carried out by JMP Consulting for Yorkshire Cities has identified synergies and gaps in the transport visions of the three Yorkshire and Humber City Regions as they formulate development programmes to help to close the north/south divide....

The continuing popularity of the Cornish seaside resort of St Ives, its perpetual car parking problems and overcrowded trains has led to JMP Consulting being appointed to develop a business case for a new park and ride facility. Cornwall County...

JMP Consulting has been commissioned by the London Bus Priority Network to identify ways of improving traffic flow and enhancing the environment for residents, visitors, businesses and for all class of road users on Chase Side, Southgate in the Lo...

A blueprint for good practice in the adoption of rail stations by train operating companies, community groups or commercial interests has been drawn up by JMP Consulting for Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB). The comprehensive report, comp...

JMP Consulting, the nationwide traffic planning and engineering consultancy, has recruited Arun Bhatti as a principal transport planner and Christopher Clements as a senior transport planner. Bhatti, who will be based in the group’s Birmingham ...

JMP Consulting has been commissioned by the Kirkintilloch’s Initiative and East Dunbartonshire Council to construct a microsimulation model of the town of Kirkintilloch, covering around 15 sq km. It will form a medium-long term tool that can be...

JMP Consulting is developing a unique web-based tool - to be called YETI (Yearly Emissions from Travel Information) - that aims to facilitate and promote the use of carbon footprinting in travel plan development. The tool, which will be freely ava...

JMP Consulting is a Partner in a European Commission project to identify and improve upon the current accessibility for disabled people to urban and rural transport systems in all 27 EU member states. There is a general lack of information on acce...

JMP Consulting has recruited Christopher Evans, a specialist in traffic engineering, as an Associate in its Birmingham office. He has joined from Waterman Civils, where he was an Associate Director, and has also worked for Atkins, Traffic for Lond...

JMP Consulting, the transport planning and engineering consultancy, has moved two of its offices, Manchester and Bristol, into new accommodation to allow for continuing expansion of the nation-wide business. Darren Oldham, director at the Manchest...

A feasibility study into replacing a defunct river boat crossing with a footbridge on a four and a half mile beautiful scenic walk along the south bank of Scotland's Firth of Forth is being carried out by JMP Consulting. For 47 years a ferryman in...

JMP Consulting has been appointed by North East Lincolnshire Council to prepare the Major Scheme Business Case for the A18 - A180 Link Road to improve access to Immingham docks and the environment for local residents. The case, to be submitted to ...

The changing and increasingly important role that sustainable transport and travel plans play in the early stages of the planning of new developments is being highlighted by JMP Consulting on a new dedicated website, www.transportassessment.org . ...

JMP Consulting has been commissioned as part of a multi-disciplinary team to formulate a strategic development framework for North Kirklees in West Yorkshire, incorporating an urban area traditionally characterised by the heavy woollen industry. T...

The Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership (SELRAP) has appointed JMP Consulting to develop a business case for reopening the trans-Pennine rail line between Skipton and Colne to both passengers and freight. SELRAP has been campaigning si...

JMP Consulting has recruited two senior members of staff from Newcastle City Council and Gateshead Council to work in its Newcastle office. Paul Gray joins as a principal transport planner, having worked for the past 18 months as a senior transpor...

The increasingly important role that taxis and private hire vehicles can play in improving accessibility in Tyne and Wear is being studied by JMP Consulting with a view to influencing future policies on taxi provision. The Tyne and Wear Local Tran...

JMP Consulting has been contracted to help PTI Cymru identify future requirements for travel information in Wales and assist in the development of its next five-year business plan. The three-month project will identify future business areas and se...

Warwickshire County Council's latest successful Major Scheme Bid is planned to bring a substantial package of improvements to public transport in the Leamington and Warwick areas including a new park and ride scheme. JMP Consulting is currently re...

Derek Palmer, who has previously held positions in the House of Commons and Confederation of British Industry, has been appointed an Associate Director in JMP Consulting's Central London office. He is a specialist in policy development, transport ...

JMP has been commissioned by the 'Access to Services' sub-group of East Durham Local Strategic Partnership to look at ways of co-ordinating transport resources across the district of Easington. The aim is to identify ways of improving service deli...

A five-year car parking strategy has been developed by JMP Consulting for staff and visitors to the three hospital sites operated by Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. The three hospital sites of Queen Elizabeth, Bensham and Dunston Hill provi...

The practicalities of building a southern relief road for the Lincolnshire town of Grantham, to be part privately-funded by extensive housing development, have been investigated by JMP Consulting. Detailed drawings of the various alignment possibi...

JMP Consulting has produced, on behalf of the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly, a guide for local authorities, the Highways Agency and other bodies responsible for the development of major transport infrastructure bids to government. The guide, aimed...

The Highways Agency, which has been influential in encouraging businesses in the use of sustainable Travel Plans, has now committed itself to lead by example. The agency has appointed JMP Consulting to develop a National Travel Plan Strategy for a...

Innovative solutions to car park design have been developed by JMP Consulting, working with Galliard Homes on turning the disused 'Jumpin Jaks' nightclub into a 22-storey mixed use development in the heart of Ilford town centre. The residential-le...

Reinstatement of the Keswick-Penrith rail line as an integral part of the national rail system would cost between £85 million and £107 million to implement, according to a study by JMP Consulting for the Northwest Regional Development Agency. Th...

Steven Petitt-Coombes has joined JMP Consulting, the transport planner and engineer, as an Associate in its London Docklands office, specialising in design and implementation within infrastructure. He has 20 years experience and was previously 12 ...

The Area Travel plan launched at Cambridge Science Park on May 9 is already showing greater awareness among staff of sustainable travel options and has recorded a big jump in car sharing. Awareness of sustainable travel options among the 5,000-plu...

JMP Consulting has been commissioned to design all the onsite highways, foul and surface sewers for the regeneration by Astral Parkridge and George Wimpey of the 33.6 hectare former Peugeot car company works at Stoke in Coventry. The new mixed-use...

JMP Consulting has been commissioned by Transport for London to undertake the Harlesden Town Centre Study in the London Borough of Brent. This work builds upon JMP's continuing work on the Flagship Bus Route 18 through the area. Harlesden town cen...

JMP Consulting has been appointed by Gallagher Estates as engineering consultant and planning supervisor for infrastructure design of the 252Ha Western Expansion Area of Milton Keynes. The project, close to the A5 and mainly residential developmen...

JMP Consulting has undertaken the detailed design of highways works for a new 8,175 sq m Tesco food store and petrol filling station now being built at Failsworth in Oldham. The store, with more than 500 parking spaces, is being constructed on a v...

Construction tenders have been sought for a new three-arm roundabout and car parking facility to serve a major distribution centre on the A775 adjacent to the M8 at Newhouse near Airdrie. The design and contract documentation has been prepared by ...

JMP Consulting has been appointed, together with Urban Initiatives, to develop two Area Action Plans within the Upper Lea Valley on behalf of the London Borough of Enfield. They will ensure a coordinated approach to future land use and infrastruct...

Sean McKenzie has joined the Liverpool office of transport planner and engineer JMP Consulting as a principal engineer after two and a half years working as a senior engineer at the Project Centre. He has also worked for the London Borough of Wand...

Options are being investigated by JMP Consulting for improving the movement and management of traffic around Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute, as part of a programme to enhance the town centre and waterfront areas. JMP will propose improved traffic ...

Following a management restructuring and creation of associate directors JMP Consulting, the transport planner and engineer, has made a number of further promotions at its countrywide network of 12 offices. They include Principal Transport Planner...

Motorists could be encouraged to leave their cars at home when they visit Lancashire's Forest of Bowland, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in favour of a more sustainable approach to tourism. A new report, produced jointly by JMP Consulting,...

JMP Consulting is to carry out a full modal study of the congested 2 km Southbury Road Corridor between the A105 London Road and A1010 Hertford Road for the London Borough of Enfield. The route is an important conduit between Enfield Town Centre a...

JMP Consulting, the transport planner and engineer, has undertaken a senior management restructuring, including the creation of a new Associate Director role, to support continuing growth. Managing director Ian Cameron commented: "The new Associat...

JMP Consulting has been commissioned by South Cheshire College to produce a Transport Assessment and Travel Plan in support of a bid to the Learning Skills Council for a full redevelopment of the Crewe Campus on its existing site by 2010. Plans ar...

JMP Consulting has identified a new parking strategy for Grimsby to support the town centre regeneration plans. A report to North East Lincolnshire Council demonstrates that economic renaissance of Grimsby Top Town requires additional car parking ...

JMP Consulting has undertaken the detailed design of highways works for a new 8,175 sq m Tesco food store and petrol filling station now being built at Failsworth in Oldham. The store, with more than 500 parking spaces, is being constructed on a v...

JMP Consulting has been appointed by Darlington Borough Council to research the travel needs of young people, aged 16-19, to assess the potential for a concessionary travel scheme. Darlington's Local Area Agreement (LAA) has the travel needs of yo...

JMP Consulting has been helping the University of Liverpool to develop proposals to strengthen controls on access points to its campus as part of a parking and security strategy. Work to implement the proposals has just started on site. Apart from...

JMP Consulting has been commissioned by the Isle of Man Department of Transport to assess options for alleviating traffic congestion and improving pedestrian facilities on the Peel Road corridor in Douglas. Peel Road is a main distributor route in...

Transport planning consultant JMP is preparing the detailed design for a new controlled parking scheme in Central Paignton on behalf of Torbay Council. The scheme will reduce parking congestion in the town centre and residential areas to the north...

JMP Consulting has recruited psychologist Michaela Jurasek to put her knowledge and experience to work on travel behaviour change issues. Michaela, who has been recruited as a transport planner in the Bristol office, graduated from Exeter Universi...

Fiona McCorquodale has been recruited by JMP Consulting as a principal transport planner in its Manchester office after three-and-a-half years as a research and evaluation officer with Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive. She has alwa...

JMP Consulting is assisting in a move to extend the Welsh heritage Llangollen Railway further along the route of the old Barmouth to Ruabon line closed after the Beeching Review of the 1960s. Llangollen Railway Trust has been operating the heritag...

The real time information system operating on Dundee city buses to help passengers plan their journeys is now being used by JMP Consulting to assist with the design of bus priority measures. Three main corridors within the city, the A92 and A930 t...

Principal Transport Planner Dr Debbie Ross, a specialist in the impacts of transport pollution on the atmosphere, is transferring from JMP Consulting's London office to Glasgow, where she will be part of the team leading JMP's UK-wide environmenta...

Architect Levitt Bernstein has appointed JMP Consulting as transport consultant for the first stage of the redevelopment of the Aylesbury Estate built in the London Borough of Southwark during the 1960s. JMP will provide the architect with transpo...

The recruitment of Alan Bain (ChMILT) as a Technical Director at JMP Consulting will be the catalyst for nation-wide expansion of the company's strategic modelling, with particular emphasis in the micro-simulation field. Alan and his support team,...

JMP Consulting has been appointed by Blackpool Council and ReBlackpool as transport planning adviser for the regeneration of the Lancashire holiday town's famous promenade and seafront quarter. Blackpool's central seafront is to be transformed int...

JMP Consulting has won a further important contract at the Sheffield International Rail Freight Terminal at Tinsley with its appointment by developer HelioSlough to develop a framework travel plan. The consultant has already been involved in early...

JMP Consulting has had its interim contract as traffic and transport planning adviser to assist in developing options for 'Renewing the Royal' - The Royal Liverpool University Hospital - made permanent. This major project is central to the provisi...