Our vision. By 2050 we will have stronger rail links to other cities, a mass transit system within the city, improved traffic management systems, city-wide ultra-fast broadband, automated vehicles, low-emission technologies and more will all have played a part in removing the obstacles and barriers to people connecting, whilst making connectivity as clean and green a process as possible.

The Transport Board was formed on the recommendation of the Congestion Task Group, and held its first meeting on 21 January 2019.

Membership

The Co-Chairs of the Transport Board are:

• Bristol City Council, Councillor Ed Plowden
• Zoe Banks Gross.

Transport Board members* are currently:

• Birketts, Mark Li
• Black South West Network, Derek Tanner
• Bristol’s Disability Equality Commission, Representative
• Bristol Health Partners, Karen Llewellyn
• Bristol Port Company, Andrew Ord
• Bristol Older Peoples Forum, Ian Quaife
• Business West Atkin-Realis, Jonathon Foster-Clarke
• Enterprise Holdings, Randall Rickabaugh
• First West of England, Rob Pymm
• Highways England, Sean Walsh
• Lifecycle, Ed Norton
• Motability, Mark Brown
• Priority Express, Simon Whitehead
• Strategic Transport – Bristol City Council, Representative
• Unite the Union, Amy Roberts
• UHBW NHS Foundation Trust, Stewart Cundy
• University of the West of England, Graham Parkhurst
• Visit West, Kathryn Davis
• WSP, Fraser Reid
• WECIL, Representative

*Members were elected in January 2024