Why attend?
Managing the movement and parking of vehicles is vital to ensuring the health and vitality of towns and cities. This means that parking and traffic management teams are an essential service.
Towns and cities across the UK implemented an impressive range of emergency traffic and street-scene measures, including pop-up cycleways and wider pavements to make cycling and walking safer, while supporting the logistics sector in maintaining essential supplies and services were maintained
Traffic + Parking is a forum in which parking and traffic management professionals from both the public and private sectors can gather to discuss the operational issues that really matter to them, and also learn about the latest policy, legislative and technology developments from leaders in the field.
Themes for discussion include...
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Moving traffic regulation and enforcement
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Parking payment policy and technology
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Digitisation of parking services
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The role of big and open data
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Electric vehicle charging
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Mobility hubs
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Kerbside management
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Road space reallocation schemes
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
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Clean air schemes
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School streets
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Regulating pavement parking
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Residential parking
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Consultation and public engagement
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Blue Badges and accessible parking
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Cycle, e-bike and e-scooter parking
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Road user charging and workplace parking levies
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Event parking
Who you will meet
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Local authority parking managers
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Private sector parking contractors
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Traffic managers
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Road safety specialists
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Motoring organisations
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Logistics and delivery organisations
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Car club operators
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Transport consultants
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Debt recovery agents
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Uniform suppliers
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Parking equipment and technology suppliers
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Payment processing specialists
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IT companies
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App developers
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Technologists
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Town centre managers
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Urban regeneration experts
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Signs and lines specialists
Conference programme
Please note that the agenda is currently being programmed. Updates to follow.
09:30
Registration
Tea & coffee served in the Pioneer Room
10:00
Session 1
Details to follow
11:30
Morning break
Tea & coffee served in the Pioneer Room
12:00
Session 2A
Details to follow
Session 2B
Details to follow
13:30
Lunch
Networking lunch served in the Pioneer Room
14:30
Session 3
Details to follow
14:30
Session 4A
Details to follow
Session 4B
Details to follow
16:30
Networking reception
Drinks served at the bar.
17:30
Conference close
Speaker biographies
Please note that the agenda is currently being programmed. Updates to follow.
Mark Moran
Event Programmer
& Editor, Parking Review
Mark Moran is the editor of Parking Review magazine and programmer of Traffic + Parking.
Mark has been the editor of Parking Review magazine since its launch in 1989. Besides the magazine, he launched and organises the annual British Parking Awards and a number of of other regular events.
In parallel to writing about traffic and parking, Mark is also a contributing editor to LTT, curates the Transports Responds bulletin and launched Evolution, a new digital magazine covering the emerging worlds of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and shared mobility.
Anjna Patel MBE
Principal Officer Parking and Safer and Sustainable Travel,
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Anjna has worked tirelessly to change the public’s perception of parking and has brought recognition to the vital role parking officials play. Determination took her from Traffic Warden in the 1980s, to Principal Officer of Road Safety & Parking at Sandwell Council today, the first woman to hold this position.
Anjna set up the first Women in Parking group in 2012 and the British Parking Association was proud to appoint her as its President in the same year. She is currently chair of the BPA Board.
Anjna has a keen eye on the development of EVs with the unique perspective of a local authority parking provider ensuring her organisation provides the optimal charging infrastructure to serve the local community, now and in the future.
