John Elliott

John has been working in Transport Planning since 1971 initially for an Aircraft company, since then he has worked for two Transport Consultancies (Scott Wilson and Colin Buchanan), 6 UK local authorities, another large industrial company, two universities and two parking companies. He started an Independent Transport Consultancy in 2002 and has supported local authorities, hospital trusts, training establishments and Universities, developers and environmentalist organisations on a range of studies.

Many have involved other highly experienced specialist professionals to provide a particularly high level and range of expertise. For the last ten years he has been working most closely with Chris Veasey and has recently slightly rebranded the consultancy as Elliott and Veasey Consultancy

While during this period since 2002 he has been working inside organisations part time (sometimes up to four days a week); of particular note he has supported The Local Government Technical Advisers Group (LGTAG) as Communications Officer for the Group and Vice Chair to the National Transport Committee for a number of years.

His previous posts and tasks include chief traffic engineer for Westminster City Council and then head of policy and project assessment for the Greater London Council. His posts have also included Deputy Borough Engineer, Surveyor and Planning Officer for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Director of Technical Services and Planning for Aylesbury Vale DC, Director of Parking for Legion Group, Transport and Planning Manager for Pfizer and Sustainable Transport Manager for Canterbury Christ Church University. John also supports the academic work and lectures at the University of Hertfordshire on Transport and Travel Planning.

He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation.