It publishes independent and authoritative research with which it promotes informed debate and advocates policy in the interests of the responsible motorist.
Foster was followed in 2003 by David Holmes CB who was formerly director of government and industry affairs at British Airways and prior to that held several senior positions in the Department for Transport, including deputy secretary with responsibility for roads and traffic.
Between 2010 and 2019 Jackson was the chief technology and innovation officer at the engineering and environmental consultancy firm Ricardo PLC.
A visiting professor at the University of Brighton, Jackson is also a non-executive director of the UK Advanced Propulsion Centre.
Trained as a mechanical engineer at Imperial College, London, he is a previous chair of the UK Low Carbon Vehicles Partnership.
[2] The Public Policy Committee, also chaired by Neville Jackson, is an advisory body consisting of approximately a dozen members with relevant transport experience and interests, mainly drawn from academia, politics and business.
All of the research is available on the RAC Foundation website including interactive and automatically updated data charts relating to such things as fuel prices and the take up of ultra-low emission vehicles.
The work - Miles Better - explored how a distance-based charge collected by insurers might eventually replace fuel duty and VED as revenue falls with the greening of the vehicle fleet.