Education: BA (Hons), Geography, University of Nottingham 1971; PhD, University of Leeds 1975; MA by Resolution, University of Oxford 2006

Career: David Banister began his career as a part-time Lecturer in Town Planning at Leeds Polytechnic from 1974 until 1975. He was later Director of the Nuffield Foundation project on “Transport Mobility and Deprivation in Interurban Areas” between 1977 and 1978. A Lecturer in Geography at the University of Reading from 1975 until 1978, he became Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Transport Policy at University College London between 1978 and 1991, where he was a member of the Transport Studies Group. At UCL he was Director of the Planning and Development Research Centre from 1990 until 1998 and was Reader in Transport Policy from 1991 until 1995. He became Professor of Transport Planning in 1995 and was Director of Research at the Bartlett School of Planning from 1998 until 2004.Professor Banister acted as a consultant to the ESRC Transport Research Initiative from 1987 until 1991 and was Coordinator of the ESRC Transport and Environment Research Programme between 1992 and 1996. He was an Associate of the University of London Centre for Transport Studies for 14 years from 1992 until 2006. Earlier, between 1994 and 1997, Professor Banister was Visiting VSB Professor at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam and Visiting Research Fellow at the Warren Centre, University of Sydney, Australia from 2001 until 2002. In 2006 he took up the post of Professor of Transport Studies and Director of the Transport Studies Unit at the Oxford University Centre for Environment; he is a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 2007 he will be Visiting Professor at the University of Bodenkultur, Vienna.Professor Banister is a Trustee of the Civic Trust and has been Chair of their Policy Committee since 2005. Over the past 20 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. His research interests include: transport investment decisions and economic development, policy scenarios for sustainable mobility, transport and sustainable development – reducing the need to travel, transport planning methods and their application to policy decisions, and modelling of energy and emissions from transport modes in urban areas and regions.David Banister is joint editor of Built Environment since 1992 and editor of Transport Reviews (see url below) since 2000. He has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport since 1976 and a member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport since 1999.

Publications include: 18 research books, including European Transport and Communications Networks: Policy Evolution and Change (co-editor) 1995, Transport and Urban Development (editor) 1995, Telematics and Transport Behaviour (co-author) 1996, Transport Policy and the Environment (editor) 1998, Environment, Land Use and Urban Policy (co-author) 1999, Transport Investment and Economic Development (co-author) 2000, Encouraging Transport Alternatives: Good Practice in Reducing Travel (co-author) 2000, European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility (co-author) 2000, Transport Planning (revised and enlarged edition) 2002, Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the 21st Century 2005, Land Use and Transport Planning – European Perspectives on Integrated Policies (co-editor) 2007; more than 200 refereed journal papers, numerous chapters in books and government publications, conference papers at national and international events, and consultancy and other reports

Contact details: Address: Oxford University Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, England; Tel: +44 (0)1865 285070; Fax: +44 (0)1865 275885; Email: david.banister@geog.ox.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.ouce.ox.ac.uk/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01441647.asp/ .