RAC FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Director of Ecolane
Dr Ben Lane is director of Ecolane. He has over a decade of experience in academic research and as an independent transport consultant. His work has included a wide range of transport related environmental fields including cleaner vehicle technologies and non-car travel modes. He has advised government, local authorities and businesses on how to reduce transport emissions. He is also co-founder of the consumer green car website www.nextgreencar.com.
Job Titles:
- FCIHT - Research & Data Manager
Neville Jackson became Chair in April 2020 succeeding Joe Greenwell. Neville is also: a Non-Executive Director of the UK Advanced Propulsion Centre; Chair of the UK Automotive Council Strategy Group; a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Committee and a member of the Steering Group for the UK Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton. Between 2010 and 2019 he was Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Ricardo PLC. He has also been Chair of the UK Low Carbon Vehicles Partnership (2003-2019). He is a graduate of Imperial College, London with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Neville Jackson is one of the trustees and is chair of the trustee board.
Additionally, Neville Jackson chairs the Foundation's Public Policy Committee. This advisory body usually consists of around 14 members, including the trustees, predominantly drawn from the worlds of academia, politics and business, all with experience of, or an interest in, transport matters. The committee is consulted about research, strategy, campaigns and future policy.
Job Titles:
- Head of External Communications
- Head of External Communications - Philip
Job Titles:
- Director
- FCIHT - Director
"As we feared, it didn't take long for the 5p reprieve to be swallowed up by global events which are driving pump prices back towards record levels.
"The Chancellor can't be blamed for the soaring cost of oil but he could and should go further in cutting the rate of duty.
"Whilst all the attention is on the price of a barrel of Brent crude, the Chancellor continues to quietly take in taxation only just less than 50% of everything that drivers pay on the forecourt.
"There has been a lot of criticism of the windfall profits being made by companies like BP and Shell, but let's not forget that record oil prices are also bringing in extra for the Treasury in the form of VAT which is levied not just on the product price of petrol and diesel, but also the duty element."
Steve Gooding succeeded Professor Stephen Glaister as Director in May 2015, after a thirty-year civil service career encompassing many transport-related roles, latterly as Director General of Roads, Traffic and Local Group at the Department for Transport. Steve is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK president 2021 and 2022) and of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation, a visiting professor at the University of the West of England's Centre for Transport and Society (CTS), a trustee of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, chair of the DfT/Innovate UK-sponsored Transport Technology Forum, a member of a number Government advisory bodies, and a regular columnist in Highways magazine.