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The CTP is a collection of professionals and experts based in the UK, working together to tackle modern travel and transport issues. The Centre is composed of transport planners from JMP Consultants Ltd and professors of psychology from the Universities of Bath, Exeter and Surrey.

CTP Members
Lynn Basford (JMP) Lynn Basford
Director of JMP’s Bristol office, with 18 years experience in transport planning including senior responsibilities in resource and staff management and budgetary control in local authority and consultancy. Lynn has extensive experience in developing projects in strategy development, public transport, walking and cycling and travel planning, and a keen interest in the role of behaviour change as key to modern transport issues.
Dr Ian Walker (University of Bath) Dr Ian Walker
Lecturer of cognitive and biological psychology at the University of Bath, with specializations in road-user interactions, safety, travel mode choice and statistics. Ian has provided expert advice on road safety in Parliamentary Select Committees and to different consultancy groups, as well as serving as a reviewer for the academic journal ‘Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour’.
Dr Birgitta Gatersleben (University of Surrey) Dr Birgitta Gatersleben
Lecturer at the University of Surrey, specialising in Environmental Psychology and sustainable lifestyles. With over 10 years of experience, Birgitta has developed a range of interdisciplinary knowledge, including restorative environments, sustainable consumption and transport psychology.
Dr Adrian Davis (JMP) Dr Adrian Davis
Dr Adrian Davis is one the UK’s prominent transport and health specialists, and works closely with JMP’s psychology and health teams for behaviour change and transport. Adrian has worked as a key advisor to several groups including the WHO, TfL, the British Medical Association and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, resulting in number of key publications for health and transport.
Prof Bas Verplanken (University of Bath) Prof Bas Verplanken
Internationally renowned researcher in the study of habitual behaviour, and a lecturer of social psychology at the University of Bath. His work on habit has stemmed from over 15 years of research, and been applied to a range of behaviours, from transport to consumerism, as well as his research into incentives and influencing behaviour change.
Dr Cris Burgess (University of Exeter) Dr Cris Burgess
Lecturer at the University of Exeter, with an interest in teaching and conducting driving behaviour research. Cris has been involved with driving behaviour study for 13 years, with a particular emphasis on road safety and traffic offending among drivers. His ‘Rider Risk Reduction scheme for motorcyclist offender interventions has been adopted for a national model for ‘rider rectification’, and highly commended by the 2006 Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards.
Greg Thomas (JMP) Greg Thomas
Greg Thomas is a psychology graduate who joined JMP in September 2007. His dissertation evaluated the effectiveness of best-practice research to reduce car-use, and continues to undertake research and analysis with a strong focus on the psychological effect of transport programs.

CTP Associates
Associates are those affiliated with the Centre, providing assistance and support

Ben Plowden Ben Plowden
Ben Plowden is Director of TfL’s Smarter Travel Unit.  The Unit uses marketing and other communications techniques to encourage and enable people to make more sustainable travel choices.  Prior to taking up this post, Ben was TfL’s Managing Director, Group Communications and Director of Borough Partnerships.
Steve Stradling Professor Steve Stradling
Steve Stradling is professor of transport psychology in the School of Health & Social Sciences within the Faculty of Health, Life & Social Sciences and is attached to the University's Transport Research Institute. He divides his time, fairly equitably, between research in traffic psychology - which car drivers and motorcyclists are the crash magnets? - and transport psychology - why are we so ambivalent about our cars?
Professor Alan Tapp Professor Alan Tapp
Alan Tapp is a professor of marketing at the University of West England. His research focuses on sports, and social marketing. Alan co-directs a unit in social marketing, and studies how the use of social marketing techniques can encourage exercise and sport in everyday life. Alan has written social marketing strategies for a range of national, regional and local organisations including the South West Public Health Observatory in addressing Obesity, and the Active Bristol programme for Bristol City Council and Bristol Primary Care Trust.
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