Stephen Rutherford

Stephen Rutherford is the Global Director of Transport Planning at Jacobs, responsible for developing and applying innovation, technical leadership of Jacobs’ close to 1,000 transportation planners and delivery of transportation planning efforts globally. He’s an internationally recognized transportation consultant, with 39 years of experience of leading complex, multi-modal projects in over 40 countries. Throughout his career Stephen has been at the forefront of developing new technologies and solutions for clients. He’s an expert in developing models to predict the impact of introducing congestion charging and low emission zones and has led studies in London, Doha, New York, Hong Kong, Bristol and Heathrow Airport. He is also passionate about the use of big data in transportation planning and has led initial ground-breaking projects in the U.K. such as the Trip Information System (TIS) for National Highways and Project EDMOND for TfL, and is now heavily involved in expanding the StreetLight platform globally. 

Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and watching cricket, preferably together!