Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Techniques of improving urban transport systems
Connecting cities by learning from urban transport systems and their management teams
1969
Yorkshire and The Humber
I am a retired consultant civil engineer. My Fellowship topic was Techniques of Improving Urban Transport Systems and I spent three months in major cities in the USA and Canada visiting transport authorities, universities, operators and manufacturers. The main purpose was to see how US cities were managing the growth in car ownership and the decline in public transport. Some new systems were being built.
I had a lifelong interest in buses, trams and light rail (rapid transit in North America) and joined the new SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive to plan public transport in the Greater Manchester area. This culminated in the construction of the Metrolink tram system in 1992.
I then worked as a consulting engineer on bus, tramway, metro and railway projects in UK and overseas for another 25 years. After retiring from full-time work, I wrote three tramway histories, on Rochdale, Bury and Bolton, and a new book on tramway systems which were never built.
Throughout my professional career I have been involved with the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and the Institution of Civil Engineers (I am a Fellow of both) and was until 2020 a Director of TravelWatch NorthWest, assisting bus and rail user groups.
Anthony Young (CF 1969) has completed his autobiography which includes two sections that refer to his Churchill Fellowship. It has been accepted for publication by Austin Macauley Publishers.
By Anthony Young, 2023
Author Anthony Young’s (CF 1969) Churchill Fellowship was featured in The Craven Herald on 10 February. The feature was in honour of the Queen's accession.
By Anthony Young, 2022
Author Anthony Young (CF 1969) wrote a book, Might Have Been Trams and Tramways, which was published this month. The book draws upon learnings gathered during his Fellowship, which explored techniques for improving urban transport systems.
By Anthony Young, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Anthony Young (CF 1969) has completed his autobiography which includes two sections that refer to his Churchill Fellowship. It has been accepted for publication by Austin Macauley Publishers.
By Anthony Young, 2023
Author Anthony Young’s (CF 1969) Churchill Fellowship was featured in The Craven Herald on 10 February. The feature was in honour of the Queen's accession.
By Anthony Young, 2022
Author Anthony Young (CF 1969) wrote a book, Might Have Been Trams and Tramways, which was published this month. The book draws upon learnings gathered during his Fellowship, which explored techniques for improving urban transport systems.
By Anthony Young, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
