
Mr Matthew Cook CGeog
Employer Name
Arup
Biography
Matthew is an experienced transport planner with knowledge and skills across the breadth of the profession ranging from active travel projects through to traffic modelling, as well as delivering large masterplanning studies. Through his work on major UK multidisciplinary projects, he has strong technical knowledge as well as the required communication skills to manage teams and get value out of people. Matthew has a deep interest in planning active travel, particularly in rural settlements, and has done so throughout Scottish Highlands and Islands. He has developed techniques to streamline and digitise the site audit process which have since been adopted by others. Through his work, tangible improvements to infrastructure within communities have been established, helping to improve movement and accessibility.