Bill Frith Bill has managed many large scale research projects and reviews relating to road safety, road transport and policy development. Bill has written and spoken extensively as an advocate and technical expert on road safety and other areas of land transport including road lighting.He has twice received the AA prize for the best paper at the Transportation Group Conference and shared the prize for the best Practice Paper in 2016 with Mike Jackett. Mike Jackett Mike is a highly experienced traffic engineer who has been involved in road lighting since 1973 as a NZ representative on the joint road lighting standards committee, as the NZ representative for CIE division 4 and as a road lighting trainer, a designer and a researcher. He shared the prize for the best Practice Paper at the Transportation Group Conference in 2016 with Bill Frith.

Jessica Tucker is a Senior Associate Systems Engineer at Beca Applied Technologies. She performs systems engineering analyses for safety critical applications, including aviation software for defence. Jessica has over 18 years of experience in developing requirements and processes for certification for complex safety- and security-critical systems in civil and military aerospace domains.

Matt Ensor is a Business Director at Beca and a leader in transport advisory services. He is a member of the Transportation Group and a former national committee member. Matt’s qualifications are in Civil Engineering, Sociology & Management, and in 2012 he attended INSEAD Business School in France on a Prime Minister’s Business Scholarship. Matt is a recognised leader in the application of Artificial Intelligence and a keen ebiker and escooterer.

Nick Lovett is a Transport Policy Planner and also the Chair of the Canterbury West Coast branch of the Transportation Group. Nick has a keen interest in new transportation technologies and business models and has been actively monitoring and supporting shared transport services for the past five years in both New Zealand and Canada.

Ahmed Beleed Marghani is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Auckland. He has about more than 10 years experience in academia. He was employed as a research assistant and instructor of the soil laboratory of Al-Mergeb University, in Libya, for about five years. After being awarded his Master Degree in 2007, he was permanently appointed by the Libyan Ministry of High Education as a member of the academic staff in the Faculty of Engineering, of Al-Mergeb University.

Richard needs convincing that the hype on autonomous vehicles isn't just marketing spin in a gargantuan battle of survival between 'Old Motors' and 'New Techs'. However he is a passionate believer in great intelligence to inform decision making. With no background in Intelligent Transportation Technology, instead Richard approaches the world of ITS from a statistical, practical engineering and benefits driven approach. With a 35 year background ranging from drought relief and dams building in Africa, to rolling out the UK's first 3G mobile network he has have gathered a wide experience of the real world. He has seen technologies come and go, and has the ability to challenge the status quo and ask the simple questions that often require the hardest and most uncomfortable answers. "Why" is a great question.....

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