Hugh Livingstone's Web Site - Transport Planning & IT Consultancy
Hugh Livingstone is a senior Transport Planner with over 35 years of experience on civil engineering, highway and public transport projects. He is a Member of the Institution of Highways and Transportation (MIHT). He specialises in transport modelling, business case preparation, strategic multi-modal transport studies, transport master planning, demand and revenue forecasting, and scheme appraisal to TAG (DfT's Transport Analysis Guidance) standards. He has taken a number of schemes through from initial feasibility study, to UK Treasury approval, to construction.
His transport models have been used for the analysis and evaluation of both public transport and highway schemes, land use masterplans, rail and light rail upgrades, operational analysis of transit schemes and monitoring of highway levels of service.
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Modelling & Data
Hugh has an interest in using new innovations in modelling and data capture to better represent transport trends and build public transport systems that really do serve to encourage modal shift away from private cars. He has studied activity based models to represent how we can forecast the movements of our populations, and has a good grounding in the methodology and theoretical basis of these pioneering modelling tools. He is a recognised expert in building travel demand matrices from Big Data sources such as mobile phone, GPS, census and GIS data.
Hugh has extensive experience in VISUM, EMME, CUBE, SATURN, and OMNITRANS transport planning software. He is also an experienced user of QGIS, PostGIS, MapInfo and ArcInfo GIS software and technologies.
He also has in-depth knowledge of rail planning tools such PLANET, MOIRA, and RAILPLAN. He is familiar with both TAG and PDFH (Passenger Demand Forecast Handbook), and made major contributions to the development and maintenance of the HS2 business case model, based on PLANET.
He is an expert in PostGreSQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL and Access databases, and Excel spreadsheets with a focus on data manipulation, presentation and reformatting. He is a programmer and writes applications in Python (inc. Pandas), Javascript, Perl, VB.NET, ASP.NET and SQL. He is a specialist in the development of web and database applications.
Project Management
Hugh provides project and technical leadership for the teams he works with, to produce high quality, well documented work within time and budget constraints, often working within very challenging environments.
He often works in a team leadership role, advising wider team members on modelling results, and mentoring junior members of staff.
He gives clear written and verbal communication of technical and economic concepts, with an ability to effectively present technical and economic advice to non-technical audiences. He has written and reviewed many technical reports and internal briefing papers. Survey Reports, Model Calibration and Validation Reports, Model Development Reports, Forecasting Reports and business Case Reports have all been written for the models Hugh has worked on. He has also contributed to Transport Strategy Reports and Land Use Strategy Reports.
In addition to his Transport Planning skills, Hugh is also an experienced IT trainer and web developer, and the author of a number of books about IT and internet technologies. He was one of the authors of Dreamweaver MX Unleashed (Sams), writing the chapters about advanced server side development and ColdFusion. He was also an author of the Readers Digest book How To Do Just About Anything on a Computer, and has written for computer magazines such as MacUser and Internet.Works on Internet and business application software.
Rates are available on request - fixed fee work can also be considered under commercial terms. Please feel free to contact me regarding any transport modelling contract work either in the UK or overseas at any time.
This small site is primarily for the benefit of existing clients. Here you can view my CV's, and see what I teach. It is not intended to be a complete resource of everything I have ever done, do now, or intend to do!