For Key People, click on link: – Nigel Wall CV

Shadow Creek Track Record:

Current work includes an ongoing role as a Technology Translator for the Location & Timing KTN, this includes:

- Developing technology roadmaps for location technology for ITS, based on knowledge of requirements and the capabilities of the technology, and industry.

- Organising workshops and seminars on relevant topics.

- Responding to government consultation requests.

- Involvement in the creation of the Office of Science & Technology Foresight view of “Intelligent Infrastructure”

- Providing companies with information on Technology Strategy Board (TSB), Research Council and European funding sources.

- Facilitating the collaborations between Higher Education Institutes and Industry, in order to bid for collaborative R&D funding, successfully on many occasions.

- Membership of advisory steering groups for collaborative projects.

- Create active links to relevant networks including the RIN, ITS UK, innovITS.

Recently completed projects include:

- Member of the Plextek consortium with Ofcom contract to predict the nature of transport in 30 years' time, assess the communications requirements arising, derive spectrum demand for wireless communications.

- Sub-contracted to EU FP6 SISTER project, to draft standards to include sat-comms into ISO TC204 W16 (CALM)

- Investigate wireless connectivity between loop-detectors and traffic-light outstation controllers for DfT (via TRL)

- Monitoring Officer for TSB pervasive computing projects. Assessor for TSB Collaborative R&D bids

- Assist a finance house with technical due diligence relating to a proposed acquisition in the mobile communications field.

- Requirements and technical options analysis for eNlink Universal On-Board Unit, for DG-TREN, (via SEA)

- Partner in a DTI NextWave LINK project “Traffimatics” researched an in-vehicle platform using ad-hoc WLAN-based mobile networking as an alternative to GSM / 3G. The project also explored interaction between vehicle systems, accessed via the CAN bus, with location information and intelligence in the infrastructure - such as UTMC and real time passenger information.

- Consultant to Transport for London, leading to the development of a prototype Digital Traffic Enforcement System to improve the effectiveness of the bus lane enforcement system, includes secure cost-effective communications from bus mounted and roadside cameras. (via SEA)

- Advise Efkon AG on setting up a UK organisation, develop market and technical strategies & to recruit staff.

- Consultant to PTI Cymru on the renewal of the bi-lingual Traveline service in Wales, including improvement of the interface for voice calls from BT's network. (via Carl Bro - now Grontmij)

- Collaborate with the Transport Research Labs (TRL) on a DfT Horizons research project investigating the potential for “cooperative traffic signal control” to use information interchanged with individual vehicles.

- Peer reviewer for the DfT's CVHS policy options study.(via Faber Maunsell)

- Document the current situation re Bus AVL, Countdown and driver communications systems for London Bus Services Limited, capturing the business requirements for service improvements and system replacement; and help to develop a 10 year business strategy. (via Carl Bro)

- Analysis of the impact on the draft standard on Road User Charging - ISO CD 17575 - on ability to use alternative telecommunications networks, for the DfT (via Newcastle University)

Last updated 10th May 2009. (c) Shadow Creek Consulting Ltd 2009