TMS Consultancy: Active Travel Workshop, Binley Cycleway
TMS has created a 360 degree video of the Binley Cycleway route being cycled, displayed via a screen. This video footage gives a much better experience of what it would be like to cycle the route, in comparison to simply walking it or doing a site visit at various points.
The aim of the workshop is to work in groups to identify hazards, defects and inconsistencies along the route.
Participants work through the video stopping it at various points to highlight the hazards, defects and inconsistencies that TMS’s team of engineers have reported, and discuss each one, along with potential remedial recommendations.
A review of the route is currently being undertaken by Coventry City Council, details of which should be available to share with delegates at NRSC 2026.
Tara Jowett, Associate Director of Training Services, TMS Consultancy
Tara Jowett has over 25 years’ experience as a design engineer and engineering team leader specialising in highways, transportation, road safety and traffic engineering.
Tara worked for Essex County Council/Essex Highways for sixteen years on a wide range of projects including major infrastructure schemes, public realm improvements, collision reduction schemes, route studies, traffic management improvements, walking and cycling schemes, Zebra, PUFFIN and TOUCAN crossings.
Grant Dumbleton, Senior Consultant, TMS Consultancy
Grant Dumbleton has 30 years’ service with Warwickshire and Hampshire police. He was a Forensic Collision Investigator for 12 years with Warwickshire Police, during which time his main role was to attend the scene of life threatening or fatal road traffic collisions.
For his most recent time with Warwickshire Police, Grant was a Traffic Management Advisor in the Road Safety Unit, focusing on road, speed alterations, safety improvements and speed enforcement.