Richard Meredith is a British writer of adventure travel novels best known for Driven Together, his account of the 2007 first car crossing of the new Asian Highway. Meredith and his co-driver Phil Colley drove from Tokyo (the Highway's farthest point East) to Istanbul (farthest West) in a journey facilitated by the United Nations, whose Commission in Bangkok had finally secured a pan-Asia agreement on the new road network in 2005 after nearly 50 years of negotiations.