Michael Dnes

Michael Dnes is Head of the National Parking Platform and Future Roads Technology at the UK Department for Transport, with responsibility for how infrastructure and legislation relating to it can be updated to meet modern needs. He has also co-chaired a three year study with the International Transport Forum into preparing infrastructure for automated vehicles.

Before his current role, he led the team writing the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2), set up the roads functions of ORR and Transport Focus, and was a central part of the team creating what is now National Highways.

Outside of work, he is an occasional transport historian, having written about London’s doomed plans for urban motorways and the challenges of infrastructure delivery.