David Hensher
BCom(Hons) PhD UNSW; FASSA; FCIT; FAITPM; CompIEAust; MAPA
Professor of Management;
Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies
david.hensher@sydney.edu.au
Room 315
C37 - Newtown Campus
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 0071
Fax: +61 2 9351 0088
David Hensher is Professor of Management, and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS): The Australian Key Centre of Excellence in Transport and Logistics Research and Education in The University of Sydney Business School. David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), Recipient of the 2009 IATBR (International Association of Travel Behaviour Research) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition for his long-standing and exceptional contribution to IATBR as well as to the wider travel behaviour community, Recipient of the 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for outstanding contribution to transport in Australia, and Recipient of the 2009 Bus NSW (Bus and Coach Association) Outstanding Contribution to Industry Award. Partner in the Volvo Educational and Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Bus Rapid Transit (2010 onwards), Former Member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel (Chaired by Minister of Transport), Honorary Fellow Singapore Land Transport Authority Academy, Past President of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research and a Vice-Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the World Conference of Transport Research. David is the Executive Chair and Co-Founder of The International Conference in Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (the Thredbo Series), now in its 22nd year. David is on the editorial boards of 10 of the leading transport journals and Area Editor of Transport Reviews. David was appointed in 1999 by one of the worlds most prestigious academic publishing houses - Elsevier Science press - as series and volume editor of a handbook series Handbooks in Transport. In 2010 he was appointed by Routledge Publishers (UK) as Editor of a four-volume major works in Transport Economics as well as Edward Elgar Publishers as Series Editor for volumes on Transport and the Environment. He has published extensively (over 475 papers) in the leading international transport and economics journals (such as The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics) as well as 12 books and is Australia's most cited transport academic and number three academic economist. His books include the Demand for Automobiles, published by North-Holland, the Bus and Coach Business (with Ann Brewer published - Allen and Unwin), Transport: An Economics and Management Perspective (With Ann Brewer, Oxford University Press), Stated Choice Methods (with Jordan Louviere and Joffre Swait, Cambridge University Press), Applied Choice Analysis - a Primer (with John Rose and Bill Greene, Cambridge University Press) and Ordered Choice Models (with Bill Greene, Cambridge University Press). His particular interests are transport economics, transport strategy, sustainable transport, productivity measurement, traveller behaviour analysis, choice analysis, stated choice experiments, and institutional reform (PPPs, privatisation tendering and contracting). David has advised numerous government and private sector organisations on matters related to transportation, especially matters related to forecasting demand for existing and new transportation services; for example the Speedrail project, the Liverpool-Parramatta Transitway, the North-West Rail project, the Sydney Metro, and numerous tollroad projects throughout Australia and internationally. David is regarded as Australia's most eminent expert on matters relating to travel demand and valuation and transport reform. Appointments over recent years include: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government's Peer Review Committee for the Sydney Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (NZ) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, Peer reviewer of the NZ Land Passenger Transport Procurement Strategy for Land Transport NZ, member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin; economic adviser to Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers on valuation methods in IP context; panel member of Transport NSW benchmarking program; specialist toll road project adviser to Thiess and member of Infrastructure Australia's reference panel on public transport.
Research Expertise
- Economic evaluation
- Performance and productivity measurement
- Privatisation and deregulation
- Stated preference methods
- Sustainable transport
- Transport economics and choice modelling
- Transport policy
- Transport policy/transport strategy