news: Introducing the ITP Active Travel Team
Wednesday 23rd April 2025
At ITP, we are dedicated to promoting active travel and making it a viable and attractive option for everyone. Our team of experts brings extensive experience in researching, designing, delivering, and evaluating active travel initiatives. But how do they prefer to travel, and what projects inspire them? Check out our Q&A with team members below:
Dr Dawn Rahman, Principal Consultant
With 20 years of experience, Dawn leads our active travel research and evaluation. She recently completed a PhD on the experiences of mothers cycling with their children in the UK, identifying key barriers to cycling for parents. Dawn is a member of the Active Travel Academy and has managed a British Cycling scheme to set up cycle hubs in underserved communities.
What is your favourite mode of transport and why? It’s probably not a surprise that my favourite mode of transport is the humble bicycle. I am either nipping around town on my trusty folding bike or out riding the lanes of Warwickshire on my road bike. Cycling is definitely my happy place (as long as other road users behave themselves!)
What is the most memorable active travel project you have worked on? I was working at Lambeth Council when the Tour De France were hosting the Grand Depart in London (back in 2007). I collaborated with Transport for London on several grassroots projects with local community groups and schools. These initiatives aimed to promote cycling both as a mode of transport but also to raise awareness and excitement about the race. It was incredible to witness the riders cycling through some of the local roads in the borough.
What projects are you excited to be working on at the moment? A colleague and I are currently creating something to help make walking and cycling more accessible and inclusive for groups often overlooked in traditional transport planning. Watch this space…
Daniel Fox, Senior Consultant
Dan uses his background in psychology to support behaviour change campaigns. He has led the Department for Transport's "Making cycling easier" project in Leicester and has extensive experience in managing fleet operations, organising campaigns, and running a successful cycle shop.
What is your favourite mode of transport and why? My Favourite mode of transport has to be my bike. I find it's not only beneficial to my physical health but also my mental health, and there's nothing like it a warm sunny day
What is the most memorable active travel project you have worked on? My most memorable project was when I was working as a Bikeability Instructor, and I was teaching a group of 6 adults. Most of the group hadn't been on a bike for 20 + years and one person had never learned to ride a bike. Taking them all from being very nervous on the playground to negotiating busy multi lane roundabout was really special. To see their confidence grow over several weeks, and the achievement they all felt was truly rewarding.
What projects are you excited to be working on at the moment? I'm currently working with SEGRO as a travel coordinator highlighting to employees that there are other more sustainable modes of transport other than the car to get to work.
Georgia Taylor, Principal Consultant
Georgia leads ITP's work on inclusive mobility. She was the lead contributor to a guide for policymakers detailing best practice walking, cycling and public transport infrastructure for the inclusion of those with visible and non-visible disabilities. Georgia is Project Manager for the development of four Local Cycling and Walking Investment Plans (LCWIPs) within Leicestershire, which involve auditing existing infrastructure and proposing schemes to upgrade it to LTN 1/20 standards.
What is your favourite mode of transport and why?
Honestly? I love walking, especially in summer. It’s reliable and gives you total freedom to find a new coffee spot, enjoy the sunshine and immerse yourself in the place and present moment.
What is the most memorable active travel project you have worked on?
I once worked on a pilot that looked at the feasibility of social prescribing active travel as a means of maintaining musculo-skeletal health and managing pre-existing musculo-skeletal conditions. It was really interesting to work on a project which directly linked active travel with positive health outcomes in this way.
What projects are you excited to be working on at the moment?
I’m currently working with Leicestershire County Council to develop their Local Cycling and Walking Investment Plans (LCWIPs). It’s really exciting to be working with such a passionate team to develop proposals which will upgrade existing infrastructure to LTN 1/20 standard around the county.
Mark Lever Green, Associate
A certified Healthy Streets Practitioner, Mark applies best practice principles to create human-centered streets. He has conducted Healthy Streets audits in Gateshead, focusing on improving walking and cycling routes.
What is your favourite mode of transport and why?
For their versatility, I love bikes. I have gone from being a pure sports cyclist to a definite utility cyclist, and now I pretty much solely use my bike to get to and from the train station or to carry my son to the swimming pool. It's so easy to know how long a journey is going to take and avoid the battle with the child seat in the car.
What is the most memorable active travel project you have worked on?
I have done quite a few masterplan projects during my career, and I always enjoy the challenge of distilling the current challenges, working out how to best present the issues and opportunities and distilling this into some sort of strategy. Since I qualified as a Healthy Streets Practitioner, this has given me a stronger framework to work with and drawing on tools like Transport for London's Active Travel Zone assessments shows how we can deliver real improvements on the ground.
What projects are you excited to be working on at the moment?
I'm currently working on a public-realm-led masterplan for the historic area of Gosport. It's really interesting to study somewhere with so much history and potential to be explored on foot and by bicycle. We're working with some leading Landscape Architects, so I can't wait to see what we can come up with.
Mario George, Principal Engineer
Mario is an active travel infrastructure design engineer with experience in managing and delivering cycling schemes across the UK. He is familiar with Transport for London's Local Cycling Design Standards (LCDS), LTN 1/20, and Mobility Design Guidance.
What is your favourite mode of transport and why? Cycling is my favourite mode of transport as it is environmentally friendly, good for my health and wallet, and perfect for short distances when the roads are congested and it's quicker than walking.
What is the most memorable active travel project you have worked on? Green corridors in Kent (Dartford area), which the project involved developing and designing an extensive network of cycling routes to connect various parts of the town, making it easier and safer for people to commute by bicycle.
What projects are you excited to be working on at the moment? I am currently working on several exciting projects, but one that stands out is the LCWIP for Leicestershire County Council. In this project, we have been designing high-level concept designs that adhere to the LTN 1/20 standard, with the goal of improving the cycling and walking infrastructure throughout the county.
For more information on how our team can help, please get in touch or see our 'Active Travel Capabilities' leaflet.