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Joze Stivan is an experienced Project Manager & Programme Coordinator with eleven years' professional experience in successful support and delivery of projects in both the public and private sector. Joze's experience includes studies of airport and aviation expansion, transport planning and integration, bus priority measures, traffic enforcement, network management plans and route management strategy. Joze joins TTR as an Associate.

Chris Penn , who will be working alongside Joze as a Consultant, graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science, and is currently working on Travel Plans for major DIY chain B&Q, Faith Destination Travel Planning and the South London Freight Quality Partnership.

Samantha Jones , now a Senior Consultant in TTR's Lichfield Office, joins us from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Whilst at the Centre, Sam's responsibilities included project and financial management, as well as staff development and governance strategies. Prior to this, Sam completed an MA in Applied Research and Consultancy at Lancaster University , worked part-time for Sustrans' TravelSmart scheme during 2007, and also carried out some freelance consultancy contributing to community street audits for Living Streets.

We at TTR have been working with the British Retail Consortium to help retailers and local councils to discuss the issue of access to town centres. Retailers know that better parking and reduced congestion can increase footfall. The result of this work has been the production of a 'tool-kit' for addressing town centre access issues, which has recently been distributed to local authorities. For a fuller description of this project please click to be taken to our current newsletter for more information.

The TTR Winter 2007 Newsletter is now available to view. Please click here to view the Newsletter. Pdf's of each of the articles are available to download if required.

ECLIPSE ( European Cooperation and Learning to Implement Transport Solutions to combat E xclusion) is one of 24 projects funded under the European Commission 2nd Transnational Exchange Programme (TEP) which forms part of the Community Programme.

The aim of ECLIPSE was to address the issue of the transport impacts on social exclusion and build on the conclusions of MATISSE which highlights the important impacts that transport can have in increasing exclusion; and how transport policy, properly integrated in joint working with social agencies could encourage greater inclusion. The project commenced in September 2005 and finished August 2007.

To view the ECLIPSE website and associated deliverables produced as part of the work - please click here www.eclipse-eu.net

The Edinburgh office is please to announce the publication of our work on tackling the abuse of off-street parking spaces for disabled people in Scotland. The reports and research findings for the above report can be found be clicking the relevant link.

Transport and Travel Research Ltd interviewed 30 parking bay abusers for a report, published by the Scottish Government to highlight the number and type of drivers who wrongly use parking bays meant for disabled people. To read the whole article located in The Herald Newspaper please click here.

The TTR Summer 2007 Newsletter is now available to view. Please click here to view the Newsletter. Pdf's of each of the articles are available to download if required.

At the 2007 Transport Practitioners' Meeting, held at the University of Manchester, Transport & Travel Research conducted an informal survey of the travel choices of those attending the meeting. A total of 49 people participated in the survey, which asked the following questions: How did you travel to the conference in Manchester? Where did you travel from? What was the greatest influence on your choice?

Please click here to review the analysis fact sheet of the 49 surveys completed.

TTR welcomed a new senior member of staff on the 2nd of July. Chris Douglas joined us as a Senior Associate. Chris is a freight specialist with over 13 years\' experience in operational, advisory and consultancy roles, having previously been with Faber Maunsell, where he was Programme Manager of Freight Best Practice, on behalf of the Department for Transport. His particular project interests include local HGV overnight parking studies, Freight Quality Partnerships (FQPs) and fuel management programmes for operators. Chris is based in TTR\'s Bristol Office.

Chris will be assisted in the development of TTR's freight interests by Alan Lewis, who has recently been promoted from Senior Associate to Director, with a place on the Main Board. Alan, who is based in TTR's Nottingham Office, also has interests in the areas of sustainable transport, clean vehicles and alternative fuels.