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Tom Rye MA (Oxon), MA, PhD Professor of Transport Policy & Mobility Management School of Engineering and the Built Environment Room: Merchiston E52 Phone: +44 131 455 2210 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tom Rye is a Professor of Transport Policy & Mobility Management in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. His doctoral research was some of the very first in Europe on the effectiveness of workplace travel plans, and he is involved in ongoing projects on this theme as well as transport education, transport governance, public transport and parking management. Dr Rye teaches on Edinburgh Napier’s MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering. For the majority of his 12 years at Edinburgh Napier he has spent time seconded part-time to industry, first to consultancy Colin Buchanan and Partners, then later to the City of Edinburgh Council. Dr Rye was educated at Oxford, the University of British Columbia and Nottingham Trent University. He was a transport planner with London Transport before joining Edinburgh Napier University in 1996.

Research Interests

Subject Area: Transport Policy, Appraisal, Public Transport
Special Interests: Mobility management, Parking

Professional Activities/Achievements

Member of Editorial Board of Transport Policy journal
Member of the TDM Committee of the US Transportation Research Board, 1999 to date
Chair of Parking Management Sub-committee, US Transportation Research Board
Board Member, Transform Scotland (Scottish transport pressure group)
Board Member, The Bike Station (sustainable transport charity in Edinburgh)
Member, Institute of Highways and Transportation, East of Scotland Committee member

Current Research Projects

MAX-SUCCESS: Successful Travel Awareness Campaigns and Mobility Management Strategies, European Commission FP6, 2006 to 2009 (with Professor Steve Stradling, Dr Michael Carreno and Catriona O'Dolan).
TRI is manager of the quality control element of this major three-year European (FP6) research project which is building on previous projects such as MOST in the field of mobility management. TRI is also a contributor to work packages on modelling behaviour change, quality management, and the links between mobility management and land-use planning.
Website: http://www.max-success.eu/

OPTIMUM 2, EC INTERREG IIIc Programme, 2004 to 2008 (with Dr Michael Carreno).
TRI is depute manager of the evaluation strand of this 4 year European (INTERREG) programme which is implementing mobility management measures at business parks and hospitals in nine locations in the UK and the Netherlands. TRI is providing assistance to project partners with monitoring methodologies, project plan monitoring and data collation and analysis. TRI is also responsible jointly with Dutch company NOVEM for production of final report and conclusions from project monitoring.
Website: http://www.optimum2.org/

PARAMOUNT: European Commission FP6, 2006-2008 (with Dr Michael Carreno).
TRI is a member of the consortium in this European FP6 project that, building on the work carried out in PORTAL (FP5), is turning European transport research project results into teaching material for European higher education institutions and transport planning professionals, run training sessions, and updates and maintains the ELTIS website.
Website: http://www.eltis.org/

Current Teaching

MSc Transport Planning and Engineering
Dissertation, contribution to Transport Policy and Transport Appraisal