Marcus Ramsay Wigan

Background

Wigan, Marcus Ramsay was born on September 3, 1941 in Horsham, Sussex, England. Son of Edmund Ramsay and Eileen (Power) Wigan.

Education

Bachelor, University of Oxford, 1963; Master of Arts, D.Phil, University of Oxford, 1967; Master of Business Administration, Monash U., 1993; Master of Arts in Asian Studies, Monash U., 1994; diploma in applied organizational psychology, Monash U., 1997; graduate diploma in organizational psychology, Victoria U. Technology, 1997.

Career

Scientist National Coal Board Operational Research Group, London, 1963-1964, Department Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy Research Establishment Oxford University, Harwell, England, 1964-1967. Principal science officer Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, England, 1967-1974. Principal planner Greater London Council, 1974-1976.

Chief scientist Australian Road Research Board, Vermont, Victoria, 1976-1990. Head computing and quantitative methods department Bowater Faculty of Business, Deakin University, Burwood, 1990-1992. Chairman motorcycle helmet-visor committee Standards Association Australia, Sydney, 1982-1992.

Expert advisor standing committee on road safety House of Representatives, Canberra, Australia, 1977-1978. Member State Bicycle Committee, Victoria, 1979-1989. Member committees National Science Foundation Transportation Research Board, Washington, since 1976, others committees include bicycle, freight data, urban data and information system, telecommunications and travel behavior, international activities.

Chairman urban meta data subcommittee. Visiting professor of Management Graduate School Business, University Sydney, Newtown, Australia, 1992-1995. Associate director FMF Management, since 1996.

Visiting fellow department civil engineering, 1992, honorary senior research fellow geography and environmental science Monash University, since 1992. Lecturer organizational psychology Victoria University of Technology, 1998. Member Victorian Motorcycle advisory committee Minister of Transport, Australia, since 1998.

Professor transport system Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, since 1999.

Achievements

• Marcus Ramsay Wigan has been listed as a notable Transportation research scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Technical advisor Autocycle Union Australia, 1979-1980. Member committee social orecon. implications Australian Computer Society, since 1986. Served with RAFVR, 1963-1967.

Fellow Institute Engineers Australia, Institute Traffic Planning and Management (president Victorian chapter 1998), Chartered Institute Transport. Member Institute Physics, British Computer Society Institution Civil Engineers, Australian Computer Society, Australian Institute Traffic Planning and Management.

Interests

• Avocations: microcomputer systems, science fiction, motorcycle racing, cycling, organ and choral music.

Connections

Married Jane Frances Geiringer, July 4, 1964 (deceased 1981). Married Christina Elger, September 4, 1984. 1 child, Rebecca Jane.

Father:

Edmund Ramsay Wigan

Mother:

Eileen (Power) Wigan

Spouse:

Christina Elger

Spouse:

Jane Frances Geiringer

child:

Rebecca Jane Wigan