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Jonathan Tyler is a Green Party activist and academic.

Tyler was an early parliamentary candidate for the Ecology Party, in the 1976 Walsall North by-election, at a time when he was a transport lecturer at the University of Birmingham. [1] He was the Ecology Party's Chairman for some years from 1976. [2]

Tyler would later go on to stand as a candidate in local elections. During the 1980s he was associated with attempts by the 'Maingreen' group to streamline the Green Party's internal workings. [1] He subsequently left the Green Party, but rejoined some years later.

Tyler joined British Rail as a Traffic Apprentice in 1962. He became a British Rail-sponsored university lecturer and since 2000 has run a consultancy called Passenger Transport Networks. [3] He has specialised in making the case for the importance of integrated strategic timetabling, drawing in particular on the Swiss Taktfahrplan methodology. The Taktfahrplan is based on repeating hourly cycles where trains meet at hubs around symmetry minutes (normally xx.00 and xx.30) to optimise connections in all directions. To create an optimal 'Taktfahrplan' system, infrastructure must be designed with the network timetable in mind. The 'Taktfahrplan' aims to create notions of convenience and accessibility to encourage people to use public transport. [4] Tyler has argued for a National Timetabling Authority to plan an integrated strategic timetable. [5] Tyler has critiqued High Speed 2 from a "green" perspective, [6] and has written about the implications a "green" agenda should have for railway timetabling. [5]

He chaired the York Environment Forum until 2010. [7] |As a prominent member of York Green Party he was its Parliamentary Candidate for York Central in 2015, [8] winning 10% of the vote.

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References

  1. 1 2 Wall, Derek (17 October 2006). "Green Party hist ch1, pt 2". Another Green World. Archived from the original on 29 October 2010.
  2. "ECOLOGY - The New Political Force". The Ecologist . 6 (9): 311. November 1976. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  3. Tyler, Jonathan (11 April 2012). "Written evidence from Jonathan Tyler, Passenger Transport Networks". www.parliament.gov.uk. House of Commons Transport Committee.
  4. Tyler, Jonathan (2003). "The philosophy and practice of Taktfahrplan: a case-study of the East Coast Main Line. Working Paper" (PDF). Institute of Transport Studies, University Of Leeds.
  5. 1 2 Tyler, Jonathan (2009). "Transport policy and railway timetabling : taking the connection seriously. Conference Paper" (PDF). Passenger Transport Networks. pp. 29–32, 35–37.
  6. Tyler, Jonathan (April–May 2012). "HS2: strategic wisdom or grand folly?". Rail Technology Magazine.
  7. "YEF Chair Kate stands down". York Environment Forum. 8 August 2014. Kate [Lock], who took over as Chair of the Forum from Jonathan Tyler in December 2010...
  8. "Jonathan Tyler Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for York Central". York Green Party. 2015. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Tony Whittaker
(as leader of PEOPLE)
Chair of the Ecology Party
1976 1979
Succeeded by