joined Racal (now Thales) as Technical Manager in 1980. He managed collaborative projects in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Intelligent Transport Systems, Traffic Information Broadcasting, and road pricing, funded by the UK Department of Trade & Industry, the Technology Strategy Board, the UK Department for Transport and the European Commission. He led the security work-package of the DfT-funded DIRECTS Road Pricing demonstration project. His role as Chief Technical Consultant before he retired from Thales in February 2010 included business development and project management in road pricing and ITS. John was an Expert Advisor to Transport for London in their Congestion Charging technology trials. He is a member of the Executive Team of the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Automotive and Road Transport Technical and Professional Network, and of its Berkshire Network; he has organised and chaired five international seminars on Road Pricing and two on Managed Motorways for the IET. He is the editor of two books: "Mobile Information Systems" (1990) and "Advances in Mobile Information Systems" (1998), and of two Artech House book Series, "ITS" and "Mobile Communications". John is currently an independent consultant working part-time for Thales and other clients. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Transportation Research Group at Southampton University, and Honorary Secretary of the Road User Charging Interest Group of ITS(UK). His professional interests have included solid state physics, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and mobile communications, but are now centred on Intelligent Transport Systems, especially road pricing (including technology, deployment, and public acceptability).
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