Tony Richardson has 35 years experience in various aspects of transport planning, transport modelling and transport data collection. He has worked in academia (at Monash, Melbourne, RMIT and Sydney Universities in Australia and at Cornell University in the USA), and also in Government and in consulting. Tony's research and professional interests lie predominantly in the area of transport planning and management. He has researched, consulted and published widely in the area, and has been involved in many projects involving the development and application of computer models of the transport system. He is a recognised expert in the design, conduct and analysis of large-scale travel surveys, and is co-author of a leading text on Travel Survey Methods.
While tending to approach the subject of transport planning from a quantitative viewpoint, he is keen to see that planners and managers do not lose sight of the human dimensions of transport systems. As a result, he attempts to take a balanced view which considers the economic, environmental and social aspects of transport systems operations.
In addition to his transport activities, Tony is also a trainer/facilitator in Lateral Thinking and the Six Thinking Hats methods developed by Edward de Bono. He is also a Director of TreeSmart Australia Pty Ltd, a company established for the sequestration of greenhouse gas emissions in harvested eucalypt plantations.