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Introduction to the Great Personal Transport Debate

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  • Wednesday, 18 April 2012
  • 00:18 - 00:18
  • Duration: 9 mins
  • Publication date: 18 Apr 2012
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, Reading, United Kingdom
  • Part of event The Great Personal Transport Debate: Will my Car Cost the Earth?

About the session

This presentation is an introduction to the Great Personal Transport Debate, which focuses on the future of private motoring and its financial and environmental costs.

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    John Wood

    John read engineering at Cambridge and spent the early part of his career in the Army. He worked with mechanised forces as a member of REME and was involved in the development and trials of new tracked vehicles. He left the Army in 1987 to take up the post of Technical Director and Chief Engineer at RAC. He joined MIRA as Managing Director in 1991 and remained in this role until his retirement in 2008.He has been Chairman of Automobile Division of IMechE and was President in 2010/11. He served for a number of years as the Chairman of the Formula Student Organising Committee and is active in other motor industry related bodies.
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