Title: Managing Director, Transport Infrastructure UK
Office: Glasgow
Specialisation: Transport Infrastructure
Alan is
the Managing Director of the Transport Infrastructure business of
Jacobs Consultancy, which comprises around 120 professional staff in
seven offices in Scotland, Ireland, and the North and Midlands of
England. He is a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years of
consultancy experience. During this time he has been responsible
for the leadership and management of specialist teams of transport
planners and traffic engineers.
As managing director of the Transport
Infrastructure business he is responsible for technical direction,
client liaison, resource allocation and budgetary control. He is an
experienced expert witness presenting evidence at local public
inquiries. He also acts as Project Director on projects with a
capital value of over £200m.
His projects have included major interurban
schemes such as the M6 and M80 Motorways in Scotland, and N4, N15
and N18 in Ireland as well as urban schemes such as the upgrading of
M1 / Westlink in Belfast and developing a transportation model for
Letterkenny. He has been project director for several major data
collection term commissions for Scottish Executive Development
Department, Transport for London and DoE Northern Ireland.
Alan is project director responsible for Jacobs input to the Central
Scotland Transport Corridor Study. The project involves the
generation and assessment of multi modal options and the determination of recommendations to the Scottish
Executive. Alan also is project director for the promotion of the £150m
M80/M73 Motorway between Stepps and Haggs.
He recently completed a study into strategic air services for
Northern Ireland on behalf of the Government. The study assessed
current and future demand for air travel and the means by which the
demand could be accommodated. The study encompassed both land side
and air side issues and is to be used in the development of an UK
wide air transport strategy. He is also project director responsible for
transport impact assessments for land uses including health care,
education, leisure, retail, residential, commercial and industrial.
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