Professor John Wootton, CBE, the one-time Rees Jeffreys Professor of Transport Planning at University of Southampton, has died aged 89.
John, co-founder of Wootton Jeffreys consultancy business, served as a trustee with Rees Jeffreys Road Fund for 10 years between 2000 and 2010 and additionally sat on the panel deciding MSc Bursary awards.
John’s pioneering professional work undoubtedly led to advances in the application of technology to transport, but his vision and aspirations also positively touched the lives of individual transport professionals. Two of the current Rees Jeffreys Road Fund trustees worked for John in the early part of their career in his consultancy business, and another current trustee worked with John at the University of Southampton Transportation Research Group, providing each of them with a strong foundation on which to build their future careers.
You can read more about John’s life and work in this article by Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) and in a notice posted by his family here.
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