Traffic Order Team: Project Centre

British Parking Awards 2024

Project Centre is an engineering and transportation consultancy designing places for the people who use them. One of its key services is traffic design and management. The multi-disciplinary team consists of over 46 members of staff, including traffic and parking engineers, consultants, transport planners and Traffic Order specialists.

Scott Lester is technical director for the parking and traffic teams. He is supported by Mike Ager, who leads the traffic team, and Olaseni Koya, who leads the parking and traffic order teams.

The parking consultants and engineers support local authorities in resolving key issues and concerns around road safety, air quality and kerbside demand issues.

The majority of the team are either members of, or working towards attaining, memberships of institutions including the Chartered Institute of Highway Technicians (CIHT), the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the British Parking Association (BPA).

Project Centre’s 25-strong parking and kerbside management team works on controlled parking zones, parking policies and strategies, kerbside management solutions such as disabled bays, parking surveys, moving traffic schemes and school street schemes.

Included among the programmes the team has delivered is the Medway Healthy and Safer Streets, which involved a rolling implementation programme of measures including school streets, moving traffic enforcement support and ‘red route’ implementation across the Kent authority’s area. The first of the schemes have been introduced around the Deptford and Catford areas with further areas around Evelyn to be implemented later this year.

The Lewisham Sustainable Streets programme has seen the roll-out of active travel measures including controlled parking zones, tree planting, EV and car club solutions to help improve sustainable travel modes across the borough. The first of the schemes have been recently introduced around the Deptford and Catford areas with further areas be implemented.

The 25-strong traffic modelling and active travel team, overseen by Mike Ager, are experts in the design of successful and safe cycle and pedestrian improvement schemes focussed on reducing rat-running and encouraging sustainable travel. They work on drafting and preparing successful funding bids and take projects through from concept to construction. This team has been at the forefront of designing and influencing behaviour change towards active travel for over a decade.

They designed active travel routes during the 2012 London Olympics and implemented the Waltham Forest Mini-Holland project, and have worked with Active Travel England on schemes.

Project Centre’s Traffic Order team provides support for various councils across the UK including London boroughs, City of Edinburgh Council and Cardiff Council. The Traffic Order team is led by Amanda Jones, who has over 35 years of experience in the Traffic Order sector and public realm changes.

The Traffic Orders team facilitated Oxford Street public realm changes which aim to improve the public realm and active travel elements in the city. The team also drafted Traffic Orders for the first bookable loading bays in Southwark.

It worked on borough-wide 20mph schemes in Waltham Forest which have introduced this speed limit to improve road safety. It has also worked with Waltham Forest and the Department for Transport to design bespoke electric vehicle bays for residents within the London borough’s controlled parking zones (CPZs).

Winners' words

Olaseni Koya (Project Centre): “Project Centre has delivered some really amazing schemes, from healthy streets and livable neighbourhoods to moving traffic enforcement and school streets. We help deliver some schemes which have changed lives and improve communities. The future is bright.”

The British Parking Awards

Created and presented by Parking Review magazine, the British Parking Awards are an independent competition. The awards recognise the leading examples of car park management, enforcement, design and team work.

The British Parking Awards 2024 ceremony took place at the Royal Lancaster London on 13 September.

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