18 May 2024

About Graham

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Connecting people, making places: that’s transport planning!

With 25 years of transport planning experience in consultancy and the public sector, Graham helps clients to deliver their transport, economic and placemaking goals. His areas of expertise include:

  • Transport policy, strategy and area/corridor studies
  • Scheme development
  • Business cases and funding bids
  • Transport scheme economics and appraisal, across all modes
  • Investment assurance and independent review
  • Rail planning and policy
  • Public transport
  • Multimodal transport investments
  • Active travel planning

His clients have included a range of local authorities, rail industry players, DfT, Transport Scotland, Transport for London, and National Highways.

Graham began in the public sector, covering London’s public transport and transport policy, before moving into consultancy. He spent periods in Scotland and the USA and is now based in Cambridge. He has worked for leading global engineering firms, bringing his expertise nationally and internationally to a wide range of clients and their transport projects. He is currently a Technical Director at the transport planning specialists Galle Saliman.

Graham is a Chartered Fellow of the CILT, and an accredited Better Business Cases Practitioner. He teaches Transport Economics and Appraisal for PTRC’s Principles of Traffic and Transport course, and has an extensive publication and speaking record.

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About this website

This is Graham’s personal website, where you can find out more about him and his work, read his blog posts, connect with him on social media, and find an increasing range of helpful transport planning resources.

Views expressed here are Graham’s own, and are not necessarily those of his employer or the organisations he works with.

The posts and resources are for general information and do not represent advice on individual situations. Graham makes every effort to be accurate at the time of writing, but doesn’t guarantee this or to keep everything up to date.

You are welcome to use the posts and resources on this site for research, personal or internal business use, on the basis described above, but please acknowledge the source as Graham James and provide a link to the home page of this website: https://grahamjames.co.uk. For any other uses, please get in touch.

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