New CIHT president focuses on infrastructure, transport networks

The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) has announced the inauguration of David Gibby as its new president for 2014/15. Gibby was welcomed into his role at a small Inauguration at CIHT’s central office in London. The new president’s theme for the year is ‘Making the Journey’, and over the next twelve months he will be exploring and developing the theme placing particular focus on: Making the career journey; Making transportation more accessible, focusing on improving access to our tr
June 20, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) has announced the inauguration of David Gibby as its new president for 2014/15.

Gibby was welcomed into his role at a small Inauguration at CIHT’s central office in London. The new president’s theme for the year is ‘Making the Journey’, and over the next twelve months he will be exploring and developing the theme placing particular focus on: Making the career journey; Making transportation more accessible, focusing on improving access to our transport systems and networks; Making the journey more reliable, improving the resilience and maintenance of infrastructure; Making the case for transport, highlighting the important social and economic role played by transport to stakeholders

Gibby said: “We all make journeys every day. CIHT will be looking at how we can make the journey better for the customers on our transport networks. We need to make the journey better, safer, healthier, more integrated and more reliable
 
"We believe that we must recognise the important role transport plays in and across our society. If we want to improve the services we provide, we need certainty - certainty in planning, certainty in investment and certainty in political direction."

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