Supported delegate places: calling potential Modelling World Ambassadors

Once again, our event partner Mott Macdonald is kindly sponsoring 10 full delegate places for students who are interested in sharing ideas about the key issues to be discussed at Modelling World, and to act as rapporteurs for specific sessions. A full brief will be given. 

Please apply to juliana.orourke@landor.co.uk

Says Mott MacDonald's Tom Van Vuren:  'We recognise that we have a responsibility to enthuse the next generation of transport modellers about the profession. Modelling World is the best place to do this – offering high profile speakers, interesting debates, state-of-the art products and services in the exhibition.'

'We take professional development in transport modelling seriously. Mott MacDonald was an early adopter of the Transport Planning Society’s Professional Development Scheme, we employ an increasing number of apprentices and, every year, we host in our transport planning and modelling teams several summer interns and sandwich students.

'Sponsoring 10 post-graduate students as Modelling World Ambassadors makes sense. The profession is suffering from a dearth of good graduates entering, and I would like to work with colleagues around the industry to start a programme of activities aimed at attracting more school-leavers into relevant university courses.

'I hope that these students will benefit from this opportunity as much as I did when, in the early eighties, I got the chance to meet some of the greatest minds in transport modelling at a similar conference in the Netherlands.'