Marcus has always worked across the boundaries of multiple subjects, and this has been invaluable in transport and computing: both of which frequently demand this. In recent years freight modelling, bicycle and motorcycle issues, and data access and use in transport and related fields have been to the fore. This has involved continuous learning (see http://go.to/mwigan) and most recently work on a Masters in Intellectual Property Law (http://www.masters.law.unimelb.edu.au/) at the University of Melbourne (where he is both an Honorary Professorial Fellow in Civil Engineering and a Partner in the Centre for Governance and Management of Transport [GAMUT, a Volvo Centre of Excellence]  in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning), working on governance issues in transport and contestable evidence based policy processes for sustainable futures.

The advanced data document and geospatial repository built with Robert Kukla for the reorient project is still fully supported by NESSTAR and SAIC who supplied two of the many sever engines incorporated, for demonstration use (www.reorient.org.uk). The overlaps between data, access, utilisation and analysis in transport have been utilised in a range of recent projects: Data gaps (EPSRC) , NTDF(DOt) and OPUS (EuroStat Fp5) with Imperial College where he is a Visiting Professor,  Reorient(Fp6) at Edinburgh Napier, and continue with Roadidea (Fp7) with Demis Bv and other projects under development. The Worldnet and follow ups to the ETIS and Transtools EU Framework projects are making active use of the demonstration capacities of the Reorient KB system.

The integration of transport and energy for sustainability remains critical, and UNDP/EC project work recently gave him the opportunity to write a proposed transport energy strategy for Mauritius. His energy background includes nuclear physics (an antique Oxford Doctorate) and coal (operational research at the National Coal Board), and is being given major priority in his next round of project proposals. The freight implications are explored in a recent book chapter .

He enjoys participating in multispeciality teams, and makes heavy use of video conferencing including Access Grid, so that distance is not a problem for European and US involvements. One of the major cross disciplinary interests is in privacy and surveillance, and their intersection with intellectual property and employment law. He has published over nearly 20 years on these issues, most recently on location based services and governance implications in a national security context (http://works.bepress.com/kmichael/93/) . Both are relevant to transport policy and ITS practice in many different ways, and have involved increasing levels of activity in formal consultation with the Australian Privacy Foundation.

While doing his best to slow down to the pace of a fulltime baby Boomer (such comments are a privilege of excessive age) he still finds time to work on teaching and learning studies, riding bicycles and motorcycles, live music recording exploring HD video production and reading economics and science fiction (which have an uncanny resemblance).. most recently back to astrophysics with a spell at the Keck telescope in Hawaii, leading inevitably to further study with the team at Swinburne.