Policy Dialogue: Transport in Economic, Spatial, Social and Environmental Development (In-Person)

The dialogue will be facilitated by Professor Roger Vickerman, Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London and Chair of the Transport Strategy Centre & Emeritus Professor of European Economics at the University of Kent.

Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex, Professor Vickerman has an Honorary Doctorate from the Philipps-Universität, Marburg; he is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association. He has been a visiting professor in Canada, Germany, Hungary and Australia.

Roger's research focuses on the relationship between transport (especially infrastructure) and economic development; regional development and integration in the European Union. He is particularly known for his studies on major infrastructure projects, such as the EU’s Trans-European Networks and high-speed rail. He has also recently worked on issues relating to public–private partnerships in transport. He has served as a member of SACTRA (Standing Committee on Trunk Road Assessment), as an advisor to Committees of both the House of Commons and House of Lords in the UK Parliament and acted as a consultant to the European Commission, various government departments and regional and local government authorities in the UK and overseas. He sits on the editorial boards of several journals in both transport and regional science and was Editor in Chief of Transport Policy 2010-2016. He was awarded the Jules Dupuit Prize of the World Conference on Transport Research Society in 2016.