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Contents
Paul Freudensprung and Liana Giorgi
Marianne Ollivier-Trigalo
Mark Brown, Simon Milner and Emily Bulman
David Banister and Dominic Stead
Barbara Adam
Steven Ney
Sandrine Rui
Liana Giorgi and Annuradha Tandon
Christian Reynaud
Ronald J. Pohoryles and Liana Giorgi
Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University; Max Weber Professor, LMU Munich (1999-2000). Founder Editor (1992-1998), Consulting Editor (1999 to present) of Time and Society. Award-winning author of 100+ publications, including three monographs and four edited books. Internationally renowned specialist in the study of social time. Research interests: time with reference to the environment, globalisation, risk, science and technology and transport. Keynote addresses across Europe as well as North and South America. Previous projects of relevance include an ESRC Fellowship of the Global Environmental Change Initiative on the temporal and spatial problems for the social sciences (1994-1996); participation at the project TENASSESS of the 4th Framework Transport RTD Programme (1996-1999); and an ESRC pilot project on bridging time theory and practice and the exploration of time politics for the food system (1999).
David Banister is Professor of Transport Planning at the University of London and Director of Research at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. Over the past twenty years he has built up an international reputation as one of the leading UK researchers in transport and planning analysis, and in particular the contribution that the social scientist can make to the investigation of these problems. This research has been extensively reported in 16 authored and edited books, some 20 research monographs, and over 200 papers published in journals or as contributions to books.
Mark Brown is a transport economist and a director of Halcrow Rail, a major UK multi-disciplinary consultancy. Over the past 15 years, he has worked on highway, rail and urban transport schemes in Europe, South-East Asia, Australia and the Caribbean. His research interests include project and policy appraisal within the transport sector and he has written and published widely on this subject. He has recently led research projects for the UK Government and European Commission on the appraisal of the Trans-European network, railway competitiveness and the economics of transport law enforcement. He is currently working with Government Agencies and the private sector to establish effective public-private partnerships to deliver major transport infrastructure projects.
Emily Bulman has degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University and transport economics from the University of Leeds. She has worked as an economist in the transport and water sectors, specialising in developing policy and project appraisal. Emily is working at Halcrow Fox and will soon begin working as a consultant at National Economic Research Associates, based in London.
Paul Freudensprung is currently studying at the Institute of Transport Studies at the University of Sydney. He worked for the ICCR from 19961998 on the TEASSESS project.
Liana Giorgi is Vice-Director of the ICCR and responsible for a number of international projects run by the institute in the departments of Social Policy Analysis and Transport Policy Analysis and Evaluation. She is coeditor of the ICCR book series Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences; and of Innovation - The European Journal of Social Sciences. She previously worked at the Institute of Womens Studies at the University of Amsterdam and received her degrees in social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge; and a degree in cognitive science from MIT (USA). She was national co-ordinator of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) in Austria between 1994-1998; scientific co-ordinator of the project CODE-TEN Strategic Assessment of Corridor Developments (1998-1999) and research manager of the Thematic Network Policy and Project Evaluation (1999-2000). She is the author of The post-socialist media: What power the West? (Avebury, 1995), and co-editor of European Transformations: Five decisive years at the turn of the century (Avebury, 1995) in addition to numerous journal articles on the above topics.
Simon Milner is currently an Associate with Halcrow Fox in its London office. Since originally joining the company in 1995 he has been responsible for a large part of the companys policy research work on behalf of the European Commission. As well as strategic policy research at the Trans-European level, he has been involved in several EC-funded studies that focus on urban public transport policy and best practice guidelines.
Steven Ney is a Research Fellow at the ICCR. He has a BSc. in Econ. Hons (Economics and Politics) from QMW, London, an MSc. Econ (Public Policy) from QMW, London, and is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Bergen, Norway. Previous research appointments include St. Annes College, Oxford; NOP Market Research; Technische Universitt Wien; and IIASA, Laxenburg. His main research interests are Public Sector Management, Science and Technology Policy, Social Security Reform, Environmental Policy, Democratic Theory.
Marianne Ollivier-Trigalo is a researcher at INRETS (National Research Institute on Transport and Safety, France), analysing the decision-making processes in the fields of transport policy with a particular focus on major infrastructure projects. Her research problematic, based on public policy analysis and political sociology concepts, pays attention on conflicts and problems of co-ordination between actors, notably in terms of territorial and public participation dimensions. She is currently researching on the question of the codification of public debate in the fields of major projects in France.
