Emeritus ProfessorStephen Glaister
Emeritus Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Emeritus ProfessorDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
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- Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Professor Stephen Glaister is Emeritus Professor of Transport and Infrastructure in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London.
He has specialised in the economics of transport with a concentration on economic regulation and deregulation. He was a member of the Government's first Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment and he has been Specialist Advisor to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport. He acted as advisor to the Department of Transport on bus deregulation. He was a non-executive director of London Regional Transport from 1984 until 1993. He was an Economic Advisor to the Rail Regulator and to the Gas Regulator. From 2015 to 2018 he was Chair of the independent Office of Rail and Road.
In 1998 he was awarded the CBE for services to public transport. He has developed models for the Department for the cost benefit assessment of urban public transport subsidies. He has also worked on urban transport evaluation for the World Bank.
He was a member of the London First Transport Initiative and was a Board Member of Transport for London. He was a member of the Steering Group of the Department's Road Pricing Feasibility Study and has extensive experience of providing high-level technical and policy advice to the Department, including as a contributor to the Eddington Transport Review and the Oakervee Review of HS2.
He is a past Managing Editor of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. He has published widely on transport and also on regulation in the telecommunications, water and gas industries.
Full details on research activities are available here:http://www.cts.cv.ic.ac.uk/html/Staff/staffDetails.asp?id=SG
He has specialised in the economics of transport with a concentration on economic regulation and deregulation. He was a member of the Government's first Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment and he has been Specialist Advisor to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport. He acted as advisor to the Department of Transport on bus deregulation. He was a non-executive director of London Regional Transport from 1984 until 1993. He was an Economic Advisor to the Rail Regulator and to the Gas Regulator. From 2015 to 2018 he was Chair of the independent Office of Rail and Road.
In 1998 he was awarded the CBE for services to public transport. He has developed models for the Department for the cost benefit assessment of urban public transport subsidies. He has also worked on urban transport evaluation for the World Bank.
He was a member of the London First Transport Initiative and was a Board Member of Transport for London. He was a member of the Steering Group of the Department's Road Pricing Feasibility Study and has extensive experience of providing high-level technical and policy advice to the Department, including as a contributor to the Eddington Transport Review and the Oakervee Review of HS2.
He is a past Managing Editor of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. He has published widely on transport and also on regulation in the telecommunications, water and gas industries.
Full details on research activities are available here:http://www.cts.cv.ic.ac.uk/html/Staff/staffDetails.asp?id=SG
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Emeritus Professor