Transport Economics Matters: Applying Economic Principles to Transportation in Great Britain

David Spurling BSc, PGCE, DGA, FCILT, M.Inst.TA David was a founder of Learning Through Cooperation Ltd and its subsidiary LTC Kenya. He wrote 21 textbooks on a range of subjects including Transport, Economics, Business, Sociology, Tourism and Accounts. He also published a book on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway. He taught people from more than fifty countries at a range of schools and colleges. He was an Associate Professor in Transport Economics at what is now Birmingham City University. In addition, David founded a college in Nairobi, Kenya, to provide educational assistance to a developing country, and was a member of the Nigerian Business Examinations Council. He was an examiner for the Association of Business Managers and Administrators, the Chartered Institute of Transport, and Edexcel. David was a Quaker and this influenced his views on social issues. He devised a survey on the single homeless. He regarded climate change as one of the major issues facing the world today. He was a Parliamentary candidate for Meriden and a councillor in both Essex and Kent. He was also a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

John Spurling BSc (Hons), DipTP, PGDip (Law), PGDip (CMI), MRTPI, MCMI John has more than 20 years, experience of town planning within both local government and the private sector. More recently, he established his own company JM Spurling Planning Consultants Limited offering a range of town planning consultancy services.

Mengqiu Cao BSc (Hons), GDip, MSc, PhD Mengqiu is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Transport and Urban Planning at the University of Westminster. He was previously a Research/Teaching Assistant at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL), and a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Planning and Transport, University of Westminster. He has worked in academia and industry in an interdisciplinary research field, which is primarily a mixture of transport analysis and urban planning. His current research interests include: transport planning; integrated urban planning and sustainable transport development; social equity and travel vulnerability; statistics and transport modelling; transport and climate change; freight transport and logistics; transport economics; travel behaviour, behavioural economics and well-being. In addition, he has also worked with public authorities and international funding organisations.