Designing for sustainable mobility.
We believe in giving something back to society. After all, society has helped to train engineers and it keeps us all in a job!
If you represent a walking or cycling group, or perhaps a community group which needs a little engineering help, we might be able to assist. We won’t be able to work miracles, but if you need an hour or two to discuss your project or if a talk about what is possible can help, then please contact us and we’ll see what we can do.
Below, is a list of some of the talks and other things Mark has been involved with, most with his time provided for free and some with costs or expenses paid for. If you need an alternative format for any of the materials, please contact us and we will try and help.
Active Travel Cafe
Mark has been a semi-regular speaker at the Active Travel Cafe since 2020, with his “The Good, the Bad and the Interesting” sessions in which he takes a look at the hot topics, tricky issues and interesting history behind highway design and sustainable mobility and presents them to a non-technical audience.
He has covered a wide range of subjects including the shelf life of guidance, traffic signals and sustainable mobility, user experience, Swedish Vision Zero, Dutch Sustainable Safety, rural network design, the history ad use of traffic signs, low traffic neighbourhoods, parking design, 20mph speed limits and risk assessment.
Mark joined forces with Robert Weetman on 18th November 2025 to give a talk about their work on designing better side road junctions and the slides from this session can be downloaded in PDF format HERE.
London Cycling Campaign Awards 2025
On 16th December 2025, Mark was highly commended in the “Take Notice” award category for sharing his civil and highway engineer experience through his blog and social media, helping people better understand streetspace and urban planning.
Photograph courtesy of Carla Francome.
Landor Links Live – Active Travel Innovations 2025
On 4th November 2025, Mark gave a short presentation on the work he has been undertaking with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council on designing better side road junctions. His slides in PDF format are available HERE, although they don’t cover all that he said. Do contact us if you would like to know more.
CYCLEWight AGM 2025
Mark was a guest speaker at CYCLEWight‘s AGM on 3rd October 2025 where he talked about network design in the rural context along with some of the infrastructure changes needed to enable rural cycling. He also covered some of the urban contexts and where they work at each end of rural connections. Mark rounded the session off with a case study from Fanø, Denmark. The slides in PDF format are available HERE.
London Cycling Campaign – A Low Traffic West End
Mark was a contributor to the London Cycling Campaign’s report released in July 2025 and which makes the case for a low traffic future for London’s West End. He said that a traffic circulation plan was needed for the West End, but it could draw on all sorts of existing experience in London as well as providing some international examples for inspiration.
Transport Practitioners Meeting 2025
On 10th July 2025 Mark and Robert Weetman ran a workshop called “Realistic AND radical. Designing pedestrian-friendly side road junctions” which was based on the conceptual work for our joint project which developed a priority junction design framework for Manchester City Council. The slides are available to download HERE, but on their own don’t explain the concepts in detail, and so you’ll need to keep an look out for blog posts and articles on this exciting area of practice. There is, however, a brief project sheet available to download HERE.
South West Collisions Investigators
Mark gave a talk about floating bus stops to the group on 25th June 2025 which was primarily aimed at road safety auditors to help them expand their knowledge, but we also have a short video of the same talk on our YouTube channel.
Labour Walks & Cycles Campaigner’s Conference
Mark headed to Leicester to give a talk called “The Art of Good Design” on 1st February 2025. In it, he covered on the difference between law, standards and guidance; the human dimension of design; the importance of network planning and a tour of the UK through a series of photographs demonstrating how design principles have been successfully delivered. His overarching messages were “have a plan” and “be bold. The slides from his talk can be downloaded HERE.
BCP Council Transport Conference
Mark was a speaker at the two day conference on 27th and 28th March 2025, where he presented a short talk called “Movement, Space, Choice & Place”. The conference was part of the council’s engagement work ahead of it developing it’s Local Transport Plan (LTP4) with Dorset County Council which will run from 2026 for 10 to 15 years. Mark talked about sustainable mobility as being core to better streets and places, how it gives people transport choices and transport resilience and how we need to ask the right questions to get the right data for transport planning. You can download his slides in PDF HERE.
Norwich Cycling Campaign
On 19th November 2024, Mark gave an in-person talk called “Not Invented Here”. Apart from one slide of a Dutch street, he gave examples from across the UK on links, junctions, crossings, low traffic neighbourhoods and complementary measures; essentially showcasing what has been invented here! You can download his slides in PDF HERE.
Cyclox
Mark gave a talk on “What makes good cycle routes” covering the 5 design principles of cycling infrastructure design, along with a roundup on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods at the group’s 18th May 2021 meeting. The slides can be downloaded as a PDF HERE and a video of the session can be watched HERE.
Cambridge Cycling Campaign
Mark was a guest panelist at Camcycle’s 2020 AGM and he followed up giving a talk for the Beyond the Bicycle Coalition at the group’s May 2020 meeting.
Guest Blog for Brake – Road Safety Week 2019
Mark shares his views on autonomous vehicles in a guest blog with Brake ahead of 2019’s Road Safety Week and he shares a view on the safe systems approach to make streets safe for cycling.
King Street Design Competition
In late 2018 the Aberdeen Cycle Forum ran a competition inviting people to submit ideas on how King Street in Aberdeen could be modernised to provide protected cycling space. We submitted some ideas with a covering report setting out our vision and guess what? We won!
We are very pleased to be able to share our concept design and report which might help other people think about how their main streets could be changed. As you will read, there are some tricky design choices to be made and you may have your own opinions, but debate and discussion is a good thing.
The competition did come with a prize of a voucher to be spent with Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative and we are delighted to announce that this will be used to help our friends at Wheels for Wellbeing, who do so much to get help disabled people to get cycling and who campaign for our streets to be made accessible for disabled people who want to cycle.
Our report and drawings can be downloaded HERE.
Guest blog for Brake – Road Safety Week 2018
Mark shared his views on cycling and road safety in a guest blog with Brake ahead of Road Safety Week.
Social Media
We are on Bluesky, Mastodon and YouTube, and Mark posts as the Ranty Highwayman on Bluesky, Mastodon and YouTube. He also blogs as the Ranty Highwayman.
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