Career: David Gillingwater is Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies Group, Department of Civil and Building Engineering at the University of Loughborough. He joined the University as a Lecturer in 1984. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1988 and was appointed Leader of the Transport Studies Group from 1999–2002. He is member of the CILT National Assessment Board for Education and Training, the Organizing Committee for the ME-SELA ’97 Conference in Loughborough, the ME-SELA ’99 Conference in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, the International Programme Committees for ISATA 1995, AEORS 1997, ME-SELA ’97 and ’99, co-organizer of the EPSRC Sustainable Cities and Aviation Network, SCAN-UK. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. David Gillingwater is Editor of the journal Transportation Planning and Technology (see url below).

Publications include: Information Systems for Airport Operations 1992, Community Transport: Policy, Planning, Practice (co-editor) 1995, Knowledge Exchange – Stakeholders, Engineering, Logistics and Achievement (co-editor) 1997, Managing Enterprises – Stakeholders, Engineering, Logistics and Achievement 1997; numerous articles in professional journals on strategic decision support systems, environmental impacts of airport operations, organizational innovation and decision-making processes in transport operations, strategic management of rapid growth by global integrators, and novel algorithms and architectures for decision support systems

Contact details: Address: Transport Studies Group, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, Leics., LE11 3TU, England; Tel: +44 (0)1509 223409; Fax: +44 (0)1509 223981; Email: d.gillingwater@lboro.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cv/research/groups/transport/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03081060.asp/ .