Peter is a Chartered Environmentalist with over 20 years’ experience in transport policy and infrastructure planning. Peter now leads the Policy, Strategy and Research functions at TfN, with his teams covering social research, economic research, freight and decarbonisation. Peter previously led the development of Transport for the North’s Decarbonisation Strategy and portfolio of decarbonisation, which includes work on electric vehicle charging, hydrogen for heavy transport uses and evidencing policies that reduce private vehicle demand whilst capturing wider health and accessibility benefits.
Peter is also a Commissioner at the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission, specialising in transport and net zero strategy. Peter joined TfN from Temple Group, an environmental and sustainability consultancy, where he had spent eight years, during which he founded Temple’s Manchester office and grew a multi-disciplinary team working on projects such as NPR and HS2, as well as initiating work on TfN’s Decarbonisation Strategy evidence base.