About Us
Traffic Data Centre (TDC) was born out of the privatisation of Westminster City Council’s Traffic and Highways Survey Department in 1990 to provide specialist data collection services for traffic engineering, transport planning and market research. Since then TDC has established as one of the leading and trusted data collection company in the UK.
Traffic Data Centre comprises of a close-knit office team supported by a large, trained and highly flexible workforce of enumerators. We confirm that the proposed individuals engaged in each project at various levels such as our Traffic and Transport and Principal Consultants, Project Director, Project Manager, Engineers, Technicians & Enumerators are suitably experienced and qualified. Their collective knowledge allows the TDC team to understand and respond to client’s needs.
Furthermore, our wealth of experience in traffic surveys allow TDC to offer its clients informative advice and appropriate recommendations in the field of traffic data collection.
Key profiles of the main team members are as follows.
Joe Emmanuel - Director
Joe initially joined TDC in 2002. After completing his masters’ degree, he was drafted in to the management team and became TDC’s one of the trusted advisor on corporate strategy and financial affairs. His extended knowledge on the core business and managerial level expertise is an advantage to TDC.
Mahesh Kathirgamanathan - Technical Director
Mahesh is a qualified engineer with a master’s degree and over 20 years of experience in developing simulations and survey analysis. Mahesh’s technical expertise combined with his experience in traffic surveys helps TDC to continuously look into new survey methods and techniques.
John Elliott - Principal Traffic and Transport Consultant
John is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has been involved in a wide range of traffic management, transport planning and traffic survey projects in local government and elsewhere and therefore has very good knowledge and understanding of various traffic surveys. John has also been involved in all aspects of Traffic and Transportation Planning for over 45 years. John has contributed significantly over the past 15 years to support TDC on various aspects especially to maintain the technical competency in areas such as analysis, reporting and deliverables.
Felix Emmanuel - Operations Director
Felix is a UK Chartered Engineer with over 20 years experience in the UK and overseas. Felix has significant experience in working closely with government sector and private organisations and has good understanding of traffic surveys.
Barry Hallam - Operations Manager
After over 35 years working for Government and Professional Firms – for many years in managerial roles, a career change brought Barry to TDC’s door. Joining as a enumerator in 2015, Barry was soon appointed as a Project Coordinator and progressed to Senior Project Manager and then Operations Manager. He has a gained substantial knowledge in the methods of traffic related data collection and analysis. He has managed a wide range of projects including manual and automatic volumetric counts, parking occupancy surveys, origin & destination surveys passenger counts and interview surveys.