Transport and Emissions - To Tax or Not

Peter Mackie is Professor of Transport Studies at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds and currently Dean of the Faculty of Environment. His research interests lie in the field of economic regulation and appraisal of transport. In the first of these areas he has worked on the economics of the bus industry for Government and operators in Britain and Ireland. In the second, economic appraisal of roads and transport policies and projects has been the main focus, including work for the World Bank, EU, national and local governments. He was a member of the Government's Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment and is one of the academic 'friends' of the Eddington review of transport infrastructure and economic performance. He directed the ITS input to the EU project HEATCO-Harmonised European Approaches for Transport Costing and project Assessment.

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