White, Professor Peter

BSc, DipTD, FCILT

Department:	Transport Studies
Job Title:	Professor
Phone:	+44 (0) 20 7911 5000 ext 3104
Fax:	+44 (0) 20 7911 5057
Email:	whitep1@westminster.ac.uk
Address:	Room M248 School of Architecture and the Built Environment University of Westminster 35 Marylebone Rd London NW1 5LS

Background

I joined the University (then known as the Polytechnic of Central London) in 1971, as a Lecturer in Public Transport Systems, receiving the title of Professor in 1992. Throughout this period I have been responsible for teaching in this and related subjects in transport planning at postgraduate level. I have developed research activities in this field through supervision of research students, MSc dissertations and research staff, along with personal research. This has focused in recent years on impacts of privatisation and deregulation in the coach, bus and rail sectors, together with specific innovations such as the role of smartcard data, and impacts of teleworking on transport demand..

Teaching

My principal teaching responsibilities are in the MSc Transport Planning & Management course, in survey methods for transport, public transport systems, and co-ordination of MSc dissertation studies.

Research and Consultancy

I am the author of a textbook on public transport, and many published papers. My research in recent years has focussed on the effects of privatisation and deregulation in the coach and

local bus industries, followed by the impacts of rail privatisation in Britain. I have particular

interests in data collection in public transport, especially that from smartcard systems, and in the effects of service quality on ridership.

Some recent examples of research and consultancy:

Current activities may be found on the Transport Studies Group website www.westminster.ac.uk/transport/

I was commissioned by the Passenger Transport Executive Group (PTEG) to produce the report ‘Factors Affecting the Decline of Bus Use in the Metropolitan Areas’ in 2008, available

via the website www.pteg.net. This examines factors behind the marked differences in bus ridership trends between London and other metropolitan areas in Britain, with implications for policy.

In 2006-2007 I managed a study undertaken jointly with research colleagues at University College London and Imperial College London into the effects of teleworking and teleconferencing on transport, sponsored by British Telecom and Transport for London.

I have supervised 10 successfully completed M Phil/PhD studies at the University of Westminster, and currently supervise six other research students.

External Activities

I have acted as external examiner for two masters’ courses in transport, and about fifteen M Phil/PhD studies at other universities.

I am a member of the editorial board of ‘Transport Reviews’

Publications:

The fifth edition of my textbook Public Transport: its Planning, Management and Operation was published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in September 2008

Co-author with R. Mackett and H.Titheridge (UCL), J.Preston (Oxford), M.Wardman and J.Shires (Leeds) and R.Balcombe and N.Paulley (TRL) of the report 'The Demand for Public Transport: a Practical Guide' (TRL report 593, April 2004), and of a paper based on this in Transport Policy, Vol 13 (2006) pp 295-306.

(with Stuart Baker) Impacts of Free Concessionary Travel in English Rural Regions from April 2006 Sixth Transport Practitioners Meeting, Reading, July 2008.

(with Gina Christodoulou, Roger Mackett, Helena Titheridge, Roselle Thoreau and John Polak) The role of teleworking in Britain: its implications for the transport system and economic evaluation Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, October 2007

Factors behind recent patronage trends in Britain and their implications for future policy International Journal of Transport Economics, Vol XXXVI, no 1, February 2009, pp 13-31 (revised version of a paper first presented at Tenth International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Australia, August 2007)

Chapter Transport for London: Success despite Westminster? in Docherty, I. and Shaw, J. (eds) Traffic Jam: Ten years of sustainable transport in the UK Policy Press, Bristol, October 2008.

Competition in Public Transport in Great Britain European Transport, 2006, pp 69-82

(with M.Bagchi) The potential of public transport smartcard data Transport Policy Vol 12, no 5, September 2005, pp 464-474.

(with M. Bagchi) Smart card data from bus systems - a replacement for existing data sources?' Municipal Engineer 157, March 2004, pp 39-46

'Light Rail and the London Underground' Chapter 6 (written jointly with Richard Knowles of Salford University) in J.Shaw & I.Docherty (editors) 'A new deal for Transport? (Blackwell, Oxford, September 2003)

'Integration versus Competition?' Public Transport International (UITP) issue 2, 2003 pp 32-35 [also in French, Spanish and German versions]

(with John Ball) 'Experience of National Railways Privatisation, and of Vertical Separation in Metro Systems', 'Trasporti Europei' August 2002, pp 76-88.

'Regular Interurban Coach Services in Europe' Paper for ECMT 114th Round Table on Transport Economics, Paris March 1999 (published 2001), pp 77-110 [also in French]

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