Career synopsis for Paul Stanton focussing on experience with large area transportation models

1. Paul Stanton
Transportation Modelling
March 2011

2. Sector Experience
Experienced Transport Planning professional and accredited PRINCE2/ APM Project Manger with established track
record in the development and application of large scale transport models to support the formulation and evaluation
of regional and sub-regional transportation policy, master planning of major mixed use developments and promotion
of large scale transport infrastructure in the UK. Solid technical base gained in leading engineering and
transportation consultancies working on both cross-cutting and parallel initiatives in excess of 3000 person days.
Proficient in all stages of the project management lifecycle, from establishing the business case and key benefits
through to project execution and closure. Expertise gained in a variety of project environments including corporate
change programmes. Resourceful and adaptable manager accomplished in requirements analysis, project planning,
setting realistic milestones and acceptance criteria, scheduling, risk identification and mitigation, monitoring and
reporting of progress and quality reviews. Proven abilities in policy and strategy formulation, troubleshooting and
conflict resolution, stakeholder engagement and business process improvement.
Pro-active leader providing coaching, professional development and mentoring to professionals and teams across
disciplines and host organizations to achieve efficient and effective collaborative working and extract maximum
project value whilst adhering to strict deadlines and budgets.
Regional and Sub-Regional Transport Modelling
Developed and applied tiered and hierarchical four-stage forecasting models for Greater London, Central England,
the North West and North East regions and a national rail model for the Sea Containers corporation. Modelling
missions include project managing updates and enhancements to the Tyne & Wear 4-stage model and subsequent
development of a lower tier highway assignment component for the city of Sunderland, programme managing a
series of extensive updates to Transport for London’s strategic transport model, lead modeller for the West Midlands
Multi-Modal study, the largest of its kind in the UK, and use of the GNER national model to support successful
renewal of the rail franchise for intercity rail services between London and Scotland.

3. Sector Experience
Master Planning and Development Planning
Promoted the use of rapid model development techniques to build sketch models (modelled in either proprietary GIS
or TransCAD) to support the early ‘optioneering’ stages for development master plans and infrastructure provision,
subsequently translating those into more detailed models to support the statutory planning processes (including
Examinations in Public and Public Inquiries). Examples include the use of GIS-based network and trip distribution
models to refine land use and transportation options for the Bahrain national planning framework, for initial
evaluation of BRT options for an urban extension west of Cambridge, to promote Major Development Areas at
Swindon, Andover and Uckfield, and to successfully overturn the Mayor of London’s objections to a proposed new
1.5m ft2 residential and office development in south London.
Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Travel
Provided expert modelling and accessibility planning services to a variety of clients promoting urban extensions,
regeneration and urban realm projects ranging from proposed remodelling of the road network adjacent to the
Houses of Parliament to successful procurement of Central Government funding for highway intersection
improvements to unlock a landmark brownfield site in the Home Counties. Involved in the early development of
TDM/ travel planning best practice in the UK. Member of the pioneering TravelWise policy and marketing team at
Hertfordshire County where led on development of the Council’s own travel plan and associated ‘greener’ working
initiatives, and worked with software developer Intrinsica to specify and trial first generation commercial journey
planning and car sharing software. Founding member of Vipre UK management team establishing first UK office,
providing marketing support to UK’s first Car Club initiative and designing and implementing numerous operational
travel plans for blue chip organizations including BAA, British Airways, Glaxo, Oracle and Astra Zeneca.

4. Sector Experience
Transportation Policy
Strong background in the development of public sector transport planning policy. At Hertfordshire County prepared
evidence base for annual grant bids to Central Government and supported a range of sustainable travel initiatives
across the county. On secondment to the Chief Executive’s Office worked on several corporate efficiency review
programmes. At Oxfordshire successfully reigned in a failing programme to develop the County’s first Local Transport
Plan. Working with the Director of Environmental Services and lead councillor Lord Bradshaw re-engaged the
Government Office and partner authorities, produced a professionally published evidence base and secured a near
doubling of the County’s transport capital grant to $200m. In 2010, delivered the regional DaSTS study for the Milton
Keynes - Aylesbury Vale growth area working with key partners across the South East region to identify long-term
investment priorities needed to meet the Regional Development Agency’s ambitious economic and environmental
targets to 2030.
Transportation Surveys and Research
Specified, designed and analysed a wide range of survey instruments used in model development and market
research (e.g. household interview and telephone interview surveys, roadside interview and PT intercept surveys, SP
and RP experiments, focus groups) using a variety of data modelling techniques, including spatial statistics, to
integrate them and add value. Recent commissions include the use of geographically weighted regression to improve
calibration of car ownership and trip attraction models for London, use of sample enumeration techniques in
combination with a GIS-based gravity model to evaluate options for road user charging and the application of GIS to
the design of new ‘enclosures’ based sampling of trip OD movements in London.

5. Professional Accreditations
2011 Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce FRSA
2009 PRINCE2 Practitioner
2008 Full Member of the Association for Project Management MAPM
2005 Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
2004 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society FRGS
2004 Chartered Scientist CSci
2004 Chartered Member of the British Computer Society MBCS CITP
1999 Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transport CMILT
1998 Member of the Institution of Highways and Transportation

6. Education & CPD
Education
2010 - present MSt Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment, University of Cambridge
2001 - 2004 MSc Geographic Information Science, University of London
1995 - 1998 BSc (Hons) First Class Computer Science, Open University
1984 - 1986 ONC Surveying, Vauxhall College of Building
1981 - 1983 Undergraduate Architecture, Polytechnic of Central London
CPD
2009 PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner, Birkbeck / ILX
2004 D841 Applied Statistics, Open University (distinction)
2004 M865 Project Management, Open University (merit)
Software
Microsoft: Project, Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint
Transport Modelling: TransCAD, SATURN, EMME2 (Cube, VISUM/ VISSIM, Paramics)
GIS: ArcGIS, MapInfo, Manifold, Flowmap, GeoDa, Crimestat
Statistics: GWR, R, SPSS, Biogeme
Data Modelling: SQL, Spatial SQL, VBA, Visual Paradigm

7. Employment History
CONSULTANCY
02/10 - present Wilbur Smith Associates Projects Manager
01/09 - 10/10 Jacobs Consultancy Associate Director
11/06 - 01/09 MVA LTS Manager/ Projects Director
12/05 - 11/06 JMP Associate
02/04 - 12/05 Mayer Brown / Waterman / Atkins Interim Manager
12/00 - 02/04 WSP Technical Director
09/99 - 12/00 Vipre UK Project Manager/ Peter Davidson Consultancy Director
PUBLIC SECTOR
12/98 - 09/99 Oxfordshire County Council Senior Transport Planner
03/93 - 12/98 Hertfordshire County Council Assistant Engineer
CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY
06/86 - 09/92 Construction Coatings Company Contracts Surveyor
09/85 - 06/86 Belgravia Property Building Technician
03/84 - 09/85 Property Services Agency Surveying Technician
01/80 - 09/81 Wandsworth Council Architectural Trainee

8. Selected Sector
Experience

9. LTS Model
Transport for
London
task value: $3m
Framework and Project Manager:
updates to TfL’s strategic
transport model and associated
survey programmes
Population: 7.5 million
Area: 1,570 km2
Modes: Highway (inc congestion
charge), Bus, Rail, Tube, Walk/
Cycle, Air Access

10. West Midlands
Multi Modal
Study
GOWM
task value: $1.5m
Lead modeller: update and
operation of regional model
Population: 2.6 million
Area: 900 km2
Modes:
Highway, Bus, Rail, Metro, Ai
rport Access

11. North East
Models
Tyne & Wear
Authorities
task value: $1.5m
Project Director/ Project Manager:
updates to sub-regional transport
model and development of linked
subarea highway model
Population: 1 million
Area: 540 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rail, Metro,
Park & Ride

12. GNER national
model
Sea Containers
task value: $50k
Project Manager:
update and operation of
national model for East Coast
railway franchise
Population: 15 million
Area: 40,000 km2
Modes:
Highway, Coach, Rail, Tube, A
ir, Park & Ride

13. Bahrain National
Planning
Development
Studies
SOM/ Crown Prince
task value: $120k
Modelling Task Leader: land use
and transport modelling/
transportation masterplan
Population: 1.2 million
Area: 750 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rapid
Transit, Taxi, Air Access

14. Omega
Business Park
Private developer
task value: $200k
Modelling Task Leader:
development of regional model
covering motorway corridor
between Manchester and
Liverpool
Population: 1 million
Area: 250 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rail

15. Swindon
Urban
Extensions
task value: $275k
Eastern
Task leader: update of
strategic models to support
Regional Spatial Strategy
Southern
Task Leader: update of
strategic models to support
SDA masterplan
Population: 200,000
Area: 230 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rail,
Park & Ride

16. Bath Western
Riverside
Public-Private
Consortium
task value: $350k
Modelling Task Leader:
development new sub-regional
model
Population: 180,000
Area: 350 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rail,
Rapid Transit, Park and Ride

17. Telford Mass
Transit
Telford & Wrekin
task value: $200k
Modelling Task Leader:
development of new strategic
model.
Population: 160,000
Area: 290 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rail, Park
& Ride, Rapid Transit

18. Cambridge
Urban
Extension
Private Developer
task value: $120k
Modelling Task Leader:
development of new strategic
model
Population: 750,000
Area: 3,400 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rapid
Transit, Park & Ride

19. London 2012
Olympics
ODA
Member of demand forecasting
advisory panel for 2012 London
Olympics

20. MK-AV
Sustainable
Transport
Strategy
South East England
Development
Agency
task value: $150k
Project Manager: review of
transportation policy and spending
priorities for South Milton Keynes/
Buckinghamshire subregion
Population: 1 million
Area: 1,900 km2
Modes: Highway, Bus, Rail, Rapid
Transit, Park and Ride

21. LTS
London Road
Charging Model
task value: $100k
Project Manager: sample
enumeration model for testing
road charging options in Outer
London
• Driver responses RP
• Calibrated on SP/ SI
• GIS distribution

22. Ville Verte
Morocco
OCP
task value: $30k
Requirements and peer review for
web-based project planning
environment to support LEED
certification