Staff and trustees of the Foundation for Integrated Transport were sad to learn of the death of Jonathan Tyler, FIT Fellow and passionate transport campaigner.

Jonathan, founder of consultancy Passenger Transport Networks in York, became FIT’s first Fellow in 2019, working on a project studying the potential for Britain to adopt Switzerland’s timetable practices.

Jonathan worked for railways in the UK for 60 years – in a control office, as an enquiry clerk, traffic apprentice and assistant yard master, as a sponsored University lecturer and, most recently, as a consultant and advocate of the role of public transport in communal life.

He consistently focussed on the importance of the timetable. From 1965 he developed the first econometric analysis to measure the commercial benefits of speed and frequency, and between 1999 and 2003 he led a government-academic-industry foresight project to assess the impact on the demand for rail travel of regular-pattern, integrated timetables using the Swiss template. His advocacy for this work is known through papers, articles, lectures, workshops and submissions to inquiries and has been encouraged by the Embassy of Switzerland in London.

We would like to share our condolences with Jonathan’s friends and family.