Transport Forum
Our Transport Forum is an independently-chaired advisory group. It brings together representatives of a wide group of stakeholders including user groups, transport owners and operators, business groups, environmental groups and delivery partners.
The forum meets quarterly and provides expertise, intelligence and advice to the Senior Officer Group and the Partnership Board. Membership is by invitation and is reviewed regularly with partners.
For future meeting dates or to download or view agendas, minutes and reports, please click the link below.
Independent chair: Geoff French
Geoff is a civil engineer and former chairman of the firm Scott Wilson. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers and chairman of the Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership. He has worked on transport planning, design and management projects throughout the UK and in China, the Middle East and Africa.
Transport Forum members
- Associated British Ports Southampton
- Association of Directors of Public Health
- Berkshire LEP
- Brighton & Hove Buses
- British Ports Association
- Campaign to Protect Rural England
- CBI
- Chief Planners
- Civil Engineering Contractors Association
- Coast to Capital LEP
- Confederation of Passenger Transport
- Department for Transport
- District & borough authorities (representatives from Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire)
- Energy UK
- Energy Networks
- Enterprise M3 LEP
- Federation of Small Businesses
- First Group
- Friends of the Earth
- Gatwick Airport
- Go South Coast
- Heathrow Airport
- Hovertravel
- John Lewis Partnership
- Chamber of Commerce
- London Thamesport
- Logistics UK
- Motorcycle Action Group
- National Highways
- Network Rail
- Port of Dover
- Premier Energy
- Rail Delivery Group
- Railfuture
- Rail Freight Group
- Road Haulage Association
- SCATE
- Solent LEP
- Solent Transport
- South Downs National Park
- South Downs Network
- South Downs Society
- South East England Councils
- South East LEP
- South Western Railway
- Southampton Airport
- Southeast Communities Rail Partnership
- Stagecoach Group
- Sustrans
- Town & Parish Councils Group (represented by Bolney Parish Council)
- Transport Action Network
- Transport Focus
- Transport for London
- Transport Planning Society
- UK Major Ports Group
- University of Portsmouth
- Western Gateway