About us

Alex Norton is an entrepreneurial IT professional with over 25 years of experience predominantly within finance and payments sector. A nephew of Simon Norton, he is keen to continue the work started by his uncle in promoting and campaigning for better sustainable transport and the reduction of transport poverty.

Brogan has been working in the transport sector for close to a decade delivering projects with a variety of organisations. Currently serving as the Head of Partnerships at Campaign for Better Transport, she leads on the development of strategic partnerships with industry, collaborating with a variety of organisations. Brogan has orchestrated sector-wide events including the Transport Practitioners’ Meeting and Better Transport Week. She also supports organisations such as the Transport Planning Society with individual events. Brogan is a Trustee for both the Foundation of Integrated Transport and the Hoxton Trust, volunteers for the Future Transport Visions Group Planning Committee and voluntarily runs the London chapter of PechaKucha Night.

Emma Griffin is a researcher, writer, and campaigner for sustainable transport, specialising in ideas that tackle car dominance and improve the walkability of towns and cities. Before becoming a trustee, she was Foundation for Integrated Transport’s administrator. Emma is also vice-chair of London Living Streets, member of the Healthy Streets Coalition, and co-founder of Footways, an initiative to create networks of quiet and interesting streets to boost everyday walking in urban areas.

John Stewart is a transport specialist and long-time campaigner. He chairs the UK Noise Association and the Campaign for Better Transport. In 2020, he stood down as the Coordinator of HACAN (representing communities impacted by Heathrow) after 20 years. He is a Director of Good Journey, an Associate of Transport for Quality of Life and Coordinator of Lambeth Public Transport Group. Previously, he chaired the Slower Speeds Initiative, RoadPeace, ALARM and ALARM UK (which brought together communities opposed to road building schemes). At a European level he is vice chair of UECNA (which gives communities a voice on aviation) and is a member of the EU’s Noise Expert Group. He is the author of Poor Show (1998), a study of the impact of traffic on low-income communities; Location, Location, Location (2006), assessing the impact of wind farm noise; and the lead author of Why Noise Matters (Earthscan, 2011).

Lisa Hopkinson is an environmental scientist by training with a keen professional and personal interest in sustainable transport. She has wide-ranging experience having worked for the private sector, charities, a thinktank, and a university. She is currently self-employed as a freelance researcher and is an Associate of Transport for Quality of Life. She has also been an active volunteer over the last 30 years with numerous grassroots organisations and national NGOs, promoting sustainable travel and opposing car-based developments and road building.

Margaret Winchcomb is a Chartered Civil Engineer with a passion for transport, focused on people. She has worked in the private sector as a contract administrator and as an entrepreneur in social enterprises. Since 2021, Margaret has led the Research and Policy work at the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS). Within her role as Deputy Executive Director, Margaret heads the charity’s engagement with its over 115 member organisations and delivers on wider aims set out in PACTS strategy.

Martin has worked in the transport sector for over a decade in a broad range of areas, from shaping national policy with consumer advocate Transport Focus to supporting grass-roots organisations with Community Rail Network. His interests lie in developing people and organisations, making the most of opportunities for shared learning, collaboration and influencing. He coordinated and supported local groups’ responses to the Government consultation on rail ticket office closures, one of the largest of its kind; proposals that were ultimately overturned. He is a keen walker and cyclist, both for getting around and for leisure. Outside of transport, Martin is a professional musician and qualified Mountain Leader.

Paul Schofield is a Chartered Management Accountant with over 40 years’ experience in finance, many of which were spent in transport-related activities. He spent 22 years in the rail industry, starting with the nationalised British Rail organisation right through to the privatised model. He also spent 15 years at assistant director level in a large local government authority, including responsibility for transport and highways spending. In between was a four-year stint at a large UK media and education company. As well as being Treasurer of FIT, he is also Treasurer of a community trust in the north of England.

Ralph Smyth is currently a freelance sustainability consultant and mediator, with a decades of experience across a wide range of transport. He has practised as a barrister, covering wide range of transport related matters in criminal and civil courts as well as planning and parliamentary proceedings. He has chaired a London Business Improvement District's travel group, overseeing its pioneering roll out of e-bike freight services, as well as leading on rural transport for a national charity. Ralph has also worked with and for some of Britain's biggest companies on transport decarbonisation research, secured changes to flagship transport legislation, as well as managed legal challenges for Transport Action Network to government backtracking on its green commitments.

Rebecca Lush is a life-long environmental campaigner, specialising in transport activism. She played a leading part in many of the prominent campaigns against road-building in the 1990s, including the Twyford Down and Newbury Bypass protests. She attended the first UN COP climate talks in Berlin in 1995; established Road Block in 2005, an alliance of community groups against the new roads programme; and became the first Roads and Climate Campaigner for Campaign for Better Transport in 2007. She had a brief interlude from 2012, working for Lush UK managing their charitable giving, assessing and approving donations. She has now returned to her original passion, becoming the Local Campaigns Support Officer for the newly formed Transport Action Network in 2020.

Stephen Joseph is a transport policy consultant, specialising in urban and local issues and in smart transport. He was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Hertfordshire in December 2018, having received an honorary doctorate from the University in November 2010. At present, Stephen is a trustee of the Foundation for Integrated Transport and is on the steering group of the Foundation’s Transport for New Homes project. He is also chair of the Liverpool City Region Bus Alliance Board. He was Chief Executive of Campaign for Better Transport (formerly Transport 2000) from 1988 to 2018. During that period, he led campaigns to reduce major road building, to increase rail investment including in new/ reopened lines and stations, and to highlight the importance of buses and the impact of cuts in bus services. He was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1996 for services to transport and the environment.

Suraj Rai is an experienced product director with a background covering research, education and technology. He is an advocate for sustainable transportation who cares deeply about human rights, grassroots community action and social change. They are currently working on applied AI solutions to improve mobility experiences for everyone.