Partnerships between operators and public transport authorities. Working practices in relational contracting and collaborative partnerships
Journal Article
Hrelja, R., Rye, T., & Mullen, C. (2018)
Partnerships between operators and public transport authorities. Working practices in relational contracting and collaborative partnerships. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 116, 327-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.06.032
Recent research on public transport has seen increasing focus on issues like coordination, collaboration and steering in complex governance settings. One of the themes in this...
The bus industry in Scotland – just a bunch of profiteering opportunists?
Presentation / Conference
Cowie, J. (2018, May)
The bus industry in Scotland – just a bunch of profiteering opportunists?. Paper presented at Scottish Transport Applications and Research (STAR) 2018, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow
The Transport Act 1985 privatised and deregulated the bus industry in Great Britain outside of London, with the intention of creating a competitive industry that would compete...
The relationship between formal and informal institutions for governance of public transport
Journal Article
Rye, T., Monios, J., Hrelja, R., & Isaksson, K. (2018)
The relationship between formal and informal institutions for governance of public transport. Journal of Transport Geography, 69, 196-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.025
The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between the formal (governance established in law) and informal institutions (governance not established in law) th...
Britain’s railways were nationalised 70 years ago – let’s not do it again
Other
Cowie, J. (2018)
Britain’s railways were nationalised 70 years ago – let’s not do it again
It is 70 years since the era of public rail ownership began in Great Britain. The British Transport Commission formally took control of the operation and planning of the whole...
The role of reporting mechanisms in transport policy implementation by local authorities in England
Journal Article
McTigue, C., Rye, T., & Monios, J. (2017)
The role of reporting mechanisms in transport policy implementation by local authorities in England. Case Studies on Transport Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2017.12.002
The UK Transport Act 2000 made a number of reforms, requiring all local transport authorities in England, outside of London, to produce a local transport plan (LTP). A separat...
Identifying barriers to implementation of local transport policy: An analysis of bus policy in Great Britain
Journal Article
McTigue, C., Monios, J., & Rye, T. (2017)
Identifying barriers to implementation of local transport policy: An analysis of bus policy in Great Britain. Utilities Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2017.12.002
This research aims to identify barriers to the implementation of local transport policy by exploring bus policy implementation in Great Britain. The methodology is based on an...
How does the Beer Distribution Game help us to understand Humanitarian Supply Chains
Presentation / Conference
Duddy, D., Weaver, M., & Stantchev, D. (2017, September)
How does the Beer Distribution Game help us to understand Humanitarian Supply Chains. Paper presented at Annual Conference of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Logistics Research Network (LRN), Southampton Solent University, UK
Purpose
This research develops a model similar to that used in Forrester’s ‘Beer Distribution Game’ to understand where uncertainty is generated in humanitarian supply chains....
Competition and complementarity in road freight: key drivers and consequences of a dominant market position
Book Chapter
Cowie, J. (2017)
Competition and complementarity in road freight: key drivers and consequences of a dominant market position. In Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics, (348-367). London: Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.
The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics
Book
J. Cowie, & S. Ison (Eds.), (2017)
The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics
The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics offers the first state of the art overview of the discipline of transport economics as it stands today, reflective of key researc...
Efficiency assessment in transport service provision
Book Chapter
Merkert, R., & Cowie, J. (2017)
Efficiency assessment in transport service provision. In Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics, (251-268). London: Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.