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Professor Chris Nash

Research Professor

Phone: +44 (0)113 34 35337
Room: 1.03, 41UR
Email: C.A.Nash@its.leeds.ac.uk_

Education

BA in Economics (1st Class Honours)
PhD in Transport Economics
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

Employment History

2008 - present: Research Professor
1989 - 2008: Professor of Transport Economics, University of Leeds
1975 - 1989: British Rail Lecturer in Rail Transport, University of Leeds (promoted to Senior Lecturer with effect from October 1988)
1971 - 74: Lecturer in Economics, University of Southampton. Lectured on transport economics, cost-benefit analysis and public sector economics

Key Research Interests

rail transport
appraisal
transport pricing
externalities

Research Projects and Experience

2000-2: Unification of Marginal Costs and Transport Accounts for Transport Efficiency (UNITE) (European Commission)
2001-2: ((with M Wardman) Measuring Demand for an Integrated Inter-urban Public Transport Network (EPSRC)
2001-3: Implementation of Pricing Reform – Transport (IMPRINT – EUROPE) (European Commission)
2003-: (with M Wardman) Rail Research UK, ITS contribution to the Rail research Centre programme (EPSRC)
2004-5: Advice to ORR on Structure of Charges review (ORR)
2005-8: (with B Matthews) Generalisation of research on Accounts and Cost Estimation (GRACE ) (European Commission)
2008-9: Social costs of transport in China (Chinese Ministry of Railways)
2008-9: Rail investment policy (World Bank)

Professional Engagements

Prof Nash as acted as advisor to many bodies, including the European Commission High Level Group on Transport Infrastructure Charging, the European Union Committee of the House of Lords, the Transport Committee of the House of Commons and the Railways Group of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transport Policy and Economics (of which he is a former editor), Transportation Research Part E, the South African Journal of Transportation and Supply Chain Management, the International Journal of Transport Economics and of the International Journal of Green Economics.

Teaching

Lectured on transport economics, public transport, project appraisal, welfare economics.

Selected Publications

Chris Nash, Tom Sansom, Ben Still (2001). Modifying transport prices to internalise externalities: evidence from European case studies. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol 31, pp 413-431.
C A Nash and T Sansom (2001) Pricing European Transport Systems: Recent Developments and Evidence from Case Studies. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy Vol 35 No 3 pp 363-380.
C Nash, S Coulthard and B Matthews (2004) Rail track charges in Great Britain – the issue of charging for capacity. Transport Policy, vol 11 no 4 October 2004, pp 315-328. ISSN 0967-070X.
C Nash (2005) Rail infrastructure charges in Europe. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, vol 39 part 3. September 2005. pp 259-278
C A Nash (2006) Alternative models for restructuring. In: J.A. Gomez-Ibanez and G de Rus (eds.) Competition in the Railway Industry. An international comparative analysis, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 25-48.
D H Johnson, J D Shires, C A Nash and J Tyler (2006) Forecasting and Appraising the Impact of a Regular Interval Timetable. Transport Policy. 13 (6) pp349-366.
Johnson, D.H.; Nash, C.A. Charging for Scarce Rail Capacity in Britain: A Case Study Review of Network Economics 7, pp.53-76 2008 (published by CRA International )
Nash C.A.; Menaz B.; Matthews B. Inter-urban Road Goods Vehicle Pricing in Europe Road Congestion and Pricing in Europe: Implications for the United States , pp.233-251 2008 (published by Edward Elgar edited by Harry Richardson and Chang-Hee Christine Bae )
Nash, C.A. Transport infrastructure pricing: a European perspective Pricing in Road Transport. A multidisciplinary perspective. , pp.293-311 2008 (published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. edited by E Verhoef, M Bliemer, L Steg and B van Wee )

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