Ann Frye OBE, BA, FCILT, FIHT

Ann Frye is an international specialist on the transport needs of disabled and older people.

She advises public, commercial and professional bodies in the transport field on developing and implementing policy solutions to meeting mobility needs in transport across all modes, as well as in the pedestrian environment. She also covers personal mobility issues including driving and the use of flexible and door to door services.

Ann chairs a number of International Working Groups and Committees on the needs of disabled and older people including the US Transportation Research Board sub-committee on international activities in Accessible Transportation and Mobility and the working group on disabled air travellers of the European Civil Aviation Conference.

Ann is a Visiting Professor at University College London, in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. She is also a Fellow both of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and of the Institution of Highways and Transportation in the UK.

Her previous experience in this field covers the past 25 years; Ann was Head of the Mobility & Inclusion Unit in the UK Government Department for Transport. In that capacity she developed and delivered a major programme of research, legislation and education to promote the mobility of disabled and older people as public transport and paratransit users, as motorists and as pedestrians. In particular she devised, took through the legislative process and implemented the transport provisions of the UK Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005. She was also responsible for developing a range of good practice guides to help transport professionals understand and meet these requirements.

Ann has also initiated and led Europe-wide projects for the European Commission and the European Science Foundation to develop Standards and Best Practice in accessible buses and heavy rail services. She has also advised Governments and transport authorities in Canada, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand among others.