Beth Hiblin

Key Expertise

• Sustainable transport policy and programme development
• Design, delivery and evaluation of area-wide smarter choice programmes
• Design, delivery and evaluation of specific smarter choice measures
• Facilitation of stakeholder engagement
• Understanding of the local and national government context

Previous Experience

Beth has extensive experience of working on sustainable transport projects. Past projects and responsibilities for previous employers include:

• Co-authoring What Works: Learning from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (Department for Transport)*
• Co-authoring Local Sustainable Transport Fund Annual Reports for 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 (Department for Transport)*
• Monitoring and evaluation of Connected - a LSTF project (Derby City Council)*
• Expert advisor to New Forest Family Cycling Experiences - a Cycling Ambition project (New Forest National Park Authority)
• Interim Programme Manager setting up Two National Parks LSTF programme (Hampshire County Council / New Forest National Park Authority / South Downs National Park Authority)
• Interim Programme Manager setting up Go Lakes Travel LSTF programme (Cumbria County Council / Lake District National Park Authority)
• Supporting LSTF bid development with expert advice and stakeholder engagement (Cambridgeshire County Council / Derby City Council* / East Sussex County Council* / Lake District National Park Authority* / New Forest & South Downs National Park Authorities* / Warwickshire County Council / West of England Partnership*)
• Development of Smarter Choices Strategy (Warwickshire County Council)
• Supporting procurement of personalised travel planning (Cambridgeshire County Council)

Associate, Sustainable Travel Team
Colin Buchanan

• Research and production of Making a Cycling Town, the evaluation report compiling practitioner's experiences of the Cycling Demonstration Town programme (Cycling England)
• Smarter Choices advisor to the 18 Cycling Towns & Cities (Cycling England)
• Development of Greater Manchester's travel behaviour change strategy for their Transport Innovation Fund bid (Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive)
• Production of travel plans for The National Archives and Parexel as part of the Site Specific Advice scheme (Transport for London)
• Production of a university travel plan across six campuses (University of Brighton)
• Specification of iTrace's residential travel planning module (Transport for London / iBase)
• Options paper on journey planning information provision for disabled spectators at London 2010 (Olympic Delivery Authority)
• Member of the Sustainable Travel Town Project Review Expert Panel (Department for Transport)

Manager, Travelchoice
Peterborough City Council

• Delivery of Travelchoice, Peterborough's highly successful Sustainable Travel Town programme

Acting Chair
Modeshift

• Provision of national training and professional support network for School Travel Advisors
• Member of the Expert Panel on School Travel for Department for Transport / Department for Education & Skills

School Travel Plan Coordinator
Peterborough City Council

• Implementation of school travel plan development strategy for 70+ schools

International Development Coordinator
Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future

• Facilitation of stakeholder engagement in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) and the United Nation's Commission on Sustainable Development

* Projects in partnership with Transport for Quality of Life.

My Favourite...

Walk: Slipping on some comfy shoes to go out and explore a new city; just wandering around and seeing what you come across. My most recent chance to do this was in Amsterdam, where I loved the bikes, buses, boats, trams and trains too. Boy, do the Dutch know how to do sustainable transport!

Cycle Ride: Loading the kids in to our cargo bike and heading off along the lane to the shop or school in the next village; spotting tractors, sheep and other sights as we go.

Bus Trip: Anything on a double decker where I can nosey in to people's back gardens from the top deck!

Train Journey: Any long one which involves a quiet carriage and a good book.

Car Ride: My old car-share commute with Claire, when we got to have a good ol' gossip every morning.