Femi Adeyemi
Principal transport planner, Leeds
Eleven years making buses quicker, school runs safer and streets nicer to walk down, mostly in West Yorkshire. I like the data and I like the public meetings, which I'm told is unusual.
femi@adeyemi.work, 07700 963 551, Leeds
Open to principal and lead roles from spring 2027
The route so far
Choose a stop to see what I did there.
2024 to now
Principal Planner, Bus Reform
Pennine Mobility
- Planning the network for franchised buses in 2027
- Running the bus users' panel: 60 passengers, meets monthly
2024 to now
Principal Planner, Bus Reform
Pennine Mobility
- Planning the network for franchised buses in 2027
- Running the bus users' panel: 60 passengers, meets monthly
- Principal Planner, Bus Reform, Pennine Mobility (2024 to now). Planning the network for franchised buses in 2027. Running the bus users' panel: 60 passengers, meets monthly.
- Senior Planner, Active Travel, Northgate City Council (2021 to 2024). School Streets at 31 schools, covering 9,800 children. Consultation that drew 4,200 responses, most of them in person. Managed a team of four and a £3.4m budget.
- Co-host, Stop Requested, A podcast about buses (2019 to now). Fortnightly, 140 episodes, about 6,000 listeners. Interviewed drivers, planners and two transport ministers.
- Transport Planner, West Riding Transport Partnership (2017 to 2021). Led bus priority on Route 72: peak journey times down 14%. Wrote the business case that won £11.2m for 6 corridors.
- Graduate, then Transport Planner, Morrow Allen Consulting (2013 to 2017). Transport assessments for 40+ housing schemes. Built the firm's first open-data bus accessibility tool. Promoted to planner in 18 months.
- MSc Transport Planning, University of Leeds (2012 to 2013). Distinction. Thesis modelled demand for a Kirkstall Road busway. Funded by a Rees Jeffreys Road Fund bursary.
- BSc Geography, first class, University of Leeds (2009 to 2012). Dissertation on bus deserts in outer Leeds estates. Ran the student cycling co-op's bike kitchen.
Work I'm proud of
14%
faster peak bus journeys on Route 72
Bus gates, signal priority and 11 stops consolidated into 7. Ridership up 9% in the first year.
31
School Streets in three years
Timed closures outside primary schools. Car drop-offs down by a third, and no school asked to stop.
£11.2m
won for six bus corridors
Wrote the business case, built the demand model, and presented it to the Department for Transport panel.
What I'm good at
Planning
- Bus network design
- Business cases (HM Treasury Green Book)
- Active travel schemes
- Traffic regulation orders
Data and tools
- QGIS and ArcGIS
- PTV Visum
- Python and pandas
- GTFS and open bus data
People
- Public consultation
- Chairing passenger panels
- Managing small teams
- Explaining models to councillors
References
“Femi is the rare planner who can build the model in the morning and calm a packed community centre in the evening. He did both, most weeks.”
Helen Sharpe
Head of Highways, Northgate City Council
“He listens to the people who actually ride the buses. Our panel changed three routes because of what he heard on it.”
Bilal Qureshi
Chair, Pennine Bus Users' Panel
Full contact details for references on request.
Next stop?
Happy to talk about roles, speaking at events, or your bus network. I reply within a couple of days.