Dr. Nick Reed

Dr Nick Reed has worked at the cutting edge of transportation research for more than twenty years. From early studies of road safety and driving performance using simulators, test tracks and instrumented vehicles, he has since been instrumental in connected and automated vehicle projects in the UK to the value of more than £50m. This has included leadership of the GATEway project in Greenwich and the creation of London's Smart Mobility Living Lab. Nick was Academy Director at TRL (the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory) before becoming Head of Mobility R&D at Bosch, the world’s largest automotive supplier.

He has since founded Reed Mobility – an independent expert consultancy on future mobility topics working across the public, private and academic sectors to deliver transport systems that are safe, clean, efficient, ethical and equitable and including projects for the European Commission, DfT, TfL, PA Consulting, Steer and Mott MacDonald. His work covers the safety and ethics implications of new transport technologies, particularly self-driving vehicles – for which he has regularly provided evidence to the Transport Select Committee. Nick is also a trustee of the road safety charities Brake, RoadSafe, the Road Safety Trust and a non-executive director of FISITA, the international association for mobility engineers.



As a chartered scientist and psychologist, Nick is committed to robust and rigorous scientific practices and he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation and a Member of the Association for Road Risk Management. In 2021, he was appointed to a three-year role as the first ever independent Chief Road Safety Advisor to National Highways, providing review and challenge to the organisation in its aim to deliver zero harm on the strategic road network by 2040. Thereafter, he was appointed to the Science Advisory Council at the Department for Transport where he provides expert insights on a range of transport matters.