Personal Info

E-mail: David.banister(at)ouce.ox.ac.uk; David.banister(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Web Link: http://www.ouce.ox.ac.uk/staff/dbanister.php

Academic Background:
BA (1st Class Hons) Geography (University of Nottingham, 1971); PhD (University of Leeds, 1976); various appointments at UCL and the University of Reading (1976-1991); Reader in Transport Policy (UCL, 1991-1995); Professor of Transport Planning (UCL, 1995-2006); Professor of Transport Studies, Fellow of St Anne’s (2006-present).

Teaching Interests:
Undergraduate: Transport Geography.
Graduate: Environmental Change and Management; Nature Society and Environmental Policy.

Research Interests:
1. Policy Scenario Building – this has been undertaken in the context of sustainable urban development and transport. The perspective taken is a long term one (2030+), and it explores the future of cities and how transport can contribute to that future. Novel methods of modified backcasting have been used to develop visions of desirable city futures, together with the analysis of policy packages and paths to move towards those futures.
2. Reducing the Need to Travel – this includes analysis of pricing and planning interventions to achieve reductions in trip distances, car use and emissions. Much of this research is related to city-centre options, including raising densities, settlement-size thresholds, mixed-use developments, and local-neighbourhood design issues.
3. Energy and Environmental Modelling – the modelling work has acted as an integrating part of the research, as it examines the means by which the environmental costs of transport can be quantified and used in evaluation. It includes new approaches to multi-criteria analysis and life-cycle analysis in the context of carbon and energy reduction in transport.
4. Transport Investment and Economic Development – this research has tackled the important issue of measuring the non-transport benefits of transport investments. Methodologies have been developed to identify additionality or new activity (employment, inward investment, land- and property-value uplift) resulting from transport investments, and this has involved the use of time series data and GIS mapping techniques.
5. Rural Transport and Employment – this has been a continuing interest, both in terms of transport’s role in helping to reduce inaccessibility and in encouraging sustainable rural communities.

Selected Publications:
Author and editor of 18 research books, including:
Land Use and Transport Planning – European Perspectives on Integrated Policies, 2007
Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the 21st Century, 2005
Transport Planning, 2002 (revised and enlarged edition)
European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility, 2000
Encouraging Transport Alternatives: Good Practice in Reducing Travel, 2000
Transport Investment and Economic Development, 2000
Environment, Land Use and Urban Policy, 1999
Transport Policy and the Environment, 1998
Telematics and Transport Behaviour, 1996
Transport and Urban Development, 1995
European Transport and Communications Networks: Policy Evolution and Change, 1995
In addition, he is the (co)author of more than 150 papers in international refereed journals, and he has published a further 100 papers in journals or as chapters in books. Other outputs include research monographs (35) and reports for researcher sponsors (over 100). More details in Who’s Who.