Project Manager for Parsons Brinckerhoff in United Kingdom. Has over thirty years experience in all aspects of highway maintenance. Started career with Devon County Council in Materials Laboratory before moving on into Highway Design and eventually as Maintenance Engineer based in North Devon. Moved to Parsons Brinckerhoff in 2002 to work on major highway schemes in South West as Managing Agent for the Highways Agency. Developed schemes for M5, A30 and A38 Trunk roads – in particular A38 Peartree to Drybridge Scheme the largest recycling scheme carried out in the UK to date and included real-time traffic information using EVI.
John A.A. (Jack) Opiola is the Project Manager for the Hong Kong Feasibility Study for Electronic Road Pricing that began in March 1997. Jack is a graduate engineer of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He received his Operations Research/Systems Analysis Degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and his MBA from Columbia University in New York City. Jack’s project management background originates with US Department of Defence projects where he managed advance technology projects in artificial Intelligence, robotics, communications, new generation sensors and command and control systems. Jack has designed electronic toll collection, operations and maintenance systems for several toll authorities in the United States including the first modern privatised toll road in the USA, the Dulles Greenway outside Washington D.C. He is currently also involved with the New Zealand Transport Information System Feasibility Project for Transfund New Zealand as the Technology Manager.
Collaberations Among In Vehicle and Infrastructure-Based Sensing
Sergio Grosso
Presentation from RFID and Electronic Vehicle Identification in Road Transport
Speaker: Sergio Grosso, Dr Alan Tully and Dr Budi Arief, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and Antonio Marques and Manuel Serrano Matoses, ETRA, Spain
Trevor Crotch-Harvey is the proprietor of independent consultancy Fenbrook Consulting. Fenbrook focuses on the application of smart card and RFID technology, particularly in Mass Transit and Healthcare. Since 2001 Trevor has chaired Working Group 8 of the Transport Card Forum – Low Cost Smart Tickets, and he has been a member of 3 other Working Groups. He also chaired “Health Tag”, an RFID Working Group of Brussels based Eucomed, the European Association of medical device manufacturers. Trevor’s involvement in smart cards in Public Transport started in 1994, when he supplied the first contactless cards to London Transport’s Harrow pilot – the forerunner of the Prestige project. Since then he has travelled the world, working with Transport Operators on how best to use smart cards to optimise their operations and provide attractive ticket options for patrons. Before starting Fenbrook in 2006, Trevor was on the Board of Innovision Research Technology plc, and prior to 2001 he was Regional Director, EMEA for Motorola Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division.