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Professor Abigail Bristow
BSc (Econ), MA, PhD, FRSA, FIOA

Professor of Transport Studies / Leader of the Transport Studies Group / Programme Director and Admissions Tutor, MSc Transport Policy and Business Management

Background

BSc(Econ) in Economics from University College Cardiff, followed by an MA in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds and a PhD on the distributional impacts of subsidies to urban public transport from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She spent three years as a Research Associate at UMIST before moving to the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds in 1989, initially as a Research Fellow, becoming a Lecturer in 1994 and Senior Lecturer in 1999. She joined Loughborough University in 2005 as Professor of Transport Studies. Leads the Transport Studies Group and is Programme Director and Admissions Tutor for the MSc in Transport Policy and Business Management.

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow Royal Society of the Arts (FSRA)
• Fellow Institute of Acoustics (FIOA)

External Activities

• Member EPSRC Peer Review Panel
• Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership Board Member

Broad Interests and Expertise

• Transport and the environment
• Valuation of transport externalities
• Transport and climate change
• Sustainable transport
• Transport policy
• Passenger transport

Research Interests

• Personal carbon trading and carbon taxes
• Achieving low carbon transport: technological and behavioural change
• Valuation of transportation noise using stated and revealed preference methods
• Application of environmental values in appraisal
• Appraisal of non-conventional passenger transport initiatives
• Transport, the city and climate change: adaptation and mitigation
• Noise futures: http://www.noisefutures.org

Research Group

Transport

Current Research Activities

Title(s): Personal Carbon Trading: Using Stated Preference to Investigate Behavioural Response

Summary: This study involves an innovative application of stated choice methods to explore, firstly, examining how the acceptability of a personal carbon trading scheme might vary with respect to design attributes and secondly, the acceptability of a personal carbon trading scheme relative to a carbon tax. The work also sought to identify the likely behavioural response to a personal carbon trading scheme that covers domestic energy and transport.

Methods: The study utilises computer based survey techniques to apply an in-depth social survey exploring behavioural response. Stated Preference experiments included in the survey to assess preferences between design attributes and schemes and overall acceptability. The final report is available from http://www.rsacarbonlimited.org/uploads/documents/CarbonLimited_AbigailBristow_57.pdf.