Completes Design Projects For Three New Public Transportation Clients Appoints Stephen T. Parry to Post of National Sales Manager

SANTA BARBARA (25 August, 2003) Santa Barbara based CHK America has firmly established itself as the premier provider of passenger information solutions to the public transportation industry, signing five new top transit agency clients during 2003, and most recently completing projects for transit authorities in San Antonio, Austin and Nashville. This success has provided for the appointment of industry veteran Stephen T. Parry to the position of National Sales Manager. That announcement was made today by Frederick A. Wood, President and CEO, CHK America.

Transit agencies nationwide have a common goal to increase usage of public transportation systems, the benefits of which are numerous to the economy as a whole* CHK America’s success in this field is its expertise in delivering clear, concise and effective passenger information in a matter of seconds, enabling transit agencies to improve customer service and thereby increase ridership. CHK America has just recently finalized and delivered system-wide maps to Nashville’s Metropolitan Transit Authority and San Antonio’s VIA Metropolitan Transit. For Austin’s Capital Metro, CHK America delivered re-designed passenger information for the 26 Information Display Units situated throughout Capital Metro’s 500 square mile service area.

Appointed to the newly created, Santa Barbara based position of National Sales Manager, is transit industry veteran Stephen T. Parry. Parry’s responsibility is to increase sales of the company’s passenger information services and products to transport agencies nationwide. Prior to joining CHK America, Parry worked as a consultant on the design, implementation and evaluation of route networks and fare structures for urban transport systems. He served as the Director of Service Development for AC Transit in Oakland, California and was the Director of Scheduling & Operations Planning at the LA County MTA and its predecessor, the SCRTD in Los Angeles. He played a major role in the opening of several rail lines, major sector and corridor service programs, and special events including the spectator transport system for the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. He has served on many panels and committees and is a past chair of the APTA Intermodal Operations Technical Forum.

Commenting on the success of the company to date, Wood explains, “Our clients include some of the most complex transit operations in the world such as London Transit and Los Angeles MTA. Our experience and expertise developed over the last century firmly places CHK as the premier communications firm who can truly deliver clear, concise and effective information to enable transit agencies to improve customer service and thereby increase ridership on their systems.”

CHK America has also designed passenger information for Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, South Coast Area Transit and North County San Diego.

Established in 1999 to extend the reach of UK based parent company Cook, Hammond & Kell’s products and services outside of Europe, CHK America has also, since its inception, successfully developed business agreements with Fortune 500 companies, publishers and the US Government to provide design and cartography services.

CHK America is a division of UK based Cook Hammond & Kell PLC, established in 1859. Other companies in the group include Cook Hammond & Kell, FWT Studios, National Map Center London, National Map Center Dublin, Oxford Cartographers