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About JCT Consultancy Ltd.

JCT Consultancy was formed in 1989 to develop and market the LinSig software package for Traffic Signal Design and to provide specialist traffic signal related consultancy advice to local authorities, consultants and central government. Since then further traffic engineering software products have been developed, and a comprehensive programme of training courses has been set up both to support the software and to teach general traffic signal design techniques. The company is based near the historic City of Lincoln in the East Midlands.

Our range of software products include LinSig - now in Version Three - the most widely used traffic signal design software in the UK; TranEd our graphical editor for TRANSYT and FlowRound our graphical roundabout design tool. All the products are designed and written by experienced traffic engineers which helps ensure the software works the way the engineer wishes to work - not vice versa.

Our training course programme has been developed over the past decade to now include a wide range of courses at all levels from beginners to advanced. The courses are structured to provide flexibility and to fit around the typical traffic signal engineer's career development path. We currently run around 40 courses per year spread over a range of subjects and locations throughout the UK. Courses include both lectured courses and also computer workshops which are used to teach practical design exercises.

JCT also provide a wide range of traffic signal related consultancy services. Our areas of expertise include traffic signal design, signal controller & system specifications, safety audits, traffic management, detailed microsimulation modelling and LinSig and TRANSYT/TranEd modelling and checking. A particular area of expertise is complex signalled roundabouts.

July 2011 Board Changes at JCT

JCT Consultancy would like to announce a number of changes to its board of directors.

Two new directors John Nightingale and Peter Cheng have been appointed to the board. John has worked for JCT for over 3 years and will be known to many as one of JCT's tutors on the many training courses we run as well as being involved in the company's consultancy work. Peter joined JCT in 2002 as a software developer and now runs the software development team responsible for the development of LinSig.

Barbara Chard who joined JCT in 2008 following the merger of her company BCC Consultancy with JCT will step down from the board following partial retirement earlier this year. Barbara will continue to work for JCT on specific projects allowing the company to continue to benefit from her many years experience in junction design and modelling. Barbara is one of the UK's leading authorities on TRANSYT and many will have been taught by her over the years on JCT's TRANSYT courses. Barbara intends to pursue a number of new leisure activities including bringing her golf handicap down!

Helen Robinson (ne Simmonite) joined JCT in 2002 and was appointed to the board in 2008 and will be well known by many within the traffic signals industry as the principal organiser of JCT's annual Traffic Signals Symposium. Helen was also a key member of JCT's consultancy team and also tutored some of our courses. Following the death of Helen's father Brian in 2009 and the tragic death of her mother Yvonne in late 2010 (both founder directors of JCT) Helen has decided after much thought to leave JCT to pursue other career interests. Helen's many contributions to the company will be much missed and we wish her all the best in her new ventures.

Following these changes the company will be taken forward by its new board consisting of the remaining founding director Paul Moore and existing board director Douglas Reid together with new appointees John Nightingale and Peter Cheng.