Professor Roger Vickerman

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Dean of the University of Kent at Brussels

Boulevard de la Plaine 5, 1050 Brussels, Belguim
Telephone: +44 1227 823495

Professor in Economics

Office: Cg.3 Keynes
Telephone: +44 1227 823495
Email: Roger Vickerman

Profile

Roger Vickerman is Professor of European Economics and Dean of the University of Kent at Brussels. He studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex and after a period as a Research Fellow at Sussex and a Lecturer at Hull moved to the University of Kent in 1977, becoming Professor of Regional and Transport Economics in 1989 and Professor of European Economics in 1998. He was Head of School from 1993-1999 and again from 2005-2009. He founded the Centre for European, Regional and Transport Economics in 1993 and has been its Director since then.

He has held visiting posts at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Guelph (Canada) and was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Transport Studies, University of Sydney (Australia) in 1999 and the Central European University in Budapest 2001-2005. He has worked as a consultant to the European Commission, the UK Government and Kent County Council. He was a member of the Planning Advisory Group of the School of the Environment (1994-96), of the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment, School of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1996-1999), and Economic Advisory Group of the Home Office 2006-2008.

He was a member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat (Scientific Advisory Council) of the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin from 1998 to 2005, and Hs been a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Groupement Régional Nord Pas de Calais pour la Recherche dans les Transports (GRRT), Lille since 1991. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Regional Studies, Transport Policy and Letters in Spatial and Resource Science

In 2001 he was elected to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences of which he was elected to the Council in 2007. In 2002 he was awarded the honorary degree of Dr. rer.pol by the Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany.

Research

Research interests

My main research interest has always been in the development of the spatial economy: how to extend basic microeconomic models of behaviour to allow for spatial separation between the locations where activities take place. This has included work on travel and transport demand (including leisure and shopping activities) and on commuting and migration. Recently I have been particularly involved with work on the role of transport infrastructure in regional development and the implications for regional convergence/divergence, with particular reference to the European Union and to countries in transition - see recent projects on the CERTE page for fuller details.

Current projects

Current research centres on methods of appraising the wider economic benefits of transport; the effects of regulatory competition on infrastructure investment and public-private partnerships.

Much of this research is carried out in collaboration research with a number of other European Universities and research institutes.

My RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pvi166.htm

Current work

Working papers
  • Recent evolution of research into the wider economic benefits of transport infrastructure investments, International Transport Forum/OECD Round Table on Macro-, meso- and micro-infrastructure planning and assessment tools, Boston, MA, October 2007
  • Public Transport Provision Under Varying Regulatory Regimes, Infraday Conference, TU Berlin, October 2007
  • Provision of Public Transport Under Conflicting Regulatory Regimes, 10th Thredbo Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Hamilton Island, Australia, August 2007
  • Appraising transport investments in a regulatory regime, World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley, California, June 2007
  • Local impacts of high-level transport network improvements, World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley, California, June 2007
  • Gateways, Corridors and Competitiveness: an evaluation of Trans-European Networks and lessons for Canada, International Conference on Gateways and Corridors, Vancouver, May 2007
  • Evaluating the Trans-European Networks: balancing the international, national and regional impacts of major infrastructures, Regional Studies Association Conference, Lisbon, April 2007
  • Indirect and wider economic impacts of High-Speed Rail, 4th Annual Conference on Railroad Industry Structure, Competition and Investment, Madrid, October, 2006
  • Appraising transport investments in a regulatory regime, Infraday Conference, TU Berlin, October 2006 (Center for Network Industries and Infrastructure, TU Berlin, CNI Working paper 2006-12 (pdf)
  • Mobility in an integrating Europe: sustainable development and cohesion, FOVUS Conference, Stuttgart, October, 2006
  • Border-region impacts of high-level transport network improvements, ERSA 46th Annual Congress, Volos, August 2006

Publications

Books
  • Growth and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of A.P.Thirlwall, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006 (with Philip Arestis and John McCombie)
  • Principles of Transport Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004 (with E Quinet), 385pp (paperback ed. 2005)
  • Transport Infrastructure (Classics in Transport Analysis) Edward Elgar, London, 2002 (with Roger Stough, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp)
Contributions to books
  • Indirect and wider economic impacts of high speed rail, in Economic Analysis of High Speed Rail in Europe, ed. G de Rus, Fundacion BBVA, Madrid, 2009, pp.89-118 (with Andreu Ulied)
  • Models in policy and policy in models: integrating decision making, in Recent Developments in Transport Modelling: Lessons for the Freight Sector, ed. M Ben-Akiva, H Meersman and E Van de Voorde, Emerald, Bingley, 2008
  • Cost-benefit analysis and the wider economic benefits from mega-projects, in Decision Making on Mega- Projects: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Planning and Innovation, ed. H Priemus, B Flyvbjerg and B van Wee, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2008, pp66-83
  • The London Congestion Charging Scheme: The Evidence, in Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment, ed. C Jensen-Butler, B Sloth, M.M. Larsen, B. Madsen and O.A Nielsen, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2008, pp79-91
  • The boundaries of welfare economics: transport appraisal in the UK, in Transport Project Evaluation: Extending the Social Cost-Benefit Approach, ed. E Haezendonck, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007, pp35-54
  • Transport, globalization and the changing concept of the region, in Globalization and Regional Economic Modeling, ed. R Cooper, K Donaghy and G Hewings, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007, pp.35-43
  • Improving contracts for the provision and maintenance of transport infrastructure: the output measurement problem, in The Management and Measurement of Infrastructure: Performance, Efficiency and Innovation, ed. C Karlsson, W P Anderson, B Johansson and K Kobayashi, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007, pp. 127-146
  • Regional Planning, regional development and transport markets, in Strategic Planning for Regional Development in the UK, ed. H.T.Dimitriou and R Thompson, Routledge, Abingdon, 2007, pp.135-153
  • Can business strategy influence policy cycles?, in Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, ed. R Macario, J.M.Viegas and D.A.Hensher, Elsevier, Oxford, 2007, pp. 215-229
  • Private sector finance of transport infrastructure: progress and prospects, in Institutions and Sustainable Transport: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Economies, ed. P Rietveld and R Stough, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007, pp.263-284
  • Policy implications of dynamic globalized freight flows in Europe, in Globalized Freight Transport: Intermodality, E-commerce, Logistics and Sustainability, ed. T.R Leinbach and C. Capineri, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007, pp.219-237
  • The EU Budget: rebates, reform and paying for enlargement, in Stosunki ekonomczne w rozszerzonej Unii Europejskiej/ Economic relations in the EU enlarged, ed. J Kundera, Kolonia, Wroc?aw, 2007, pp215-225
  • The private finance of public infrastructure: the role of banks, in Der Banksektor im Wandel, ed. N. Emmerich and P. Roßbach, Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, pp. 211-224
  • Infrastructure policy, in Handbook of Transport Strategy, Policy and Institutions (Handbooks in Transport Volume 6) ed. K.J.Button and D.A Hensher, Elsevier, Oxford, 2005, pp. 225-235
  • Public and private initiatives in infrastructure provision, in Barriers to Sustainable Transport, ed. P Rietveld and R Stough, Spon Press, London, 2004, pp.18-36
  • Private financing of transport infrastructure: some UK experience, in Trends in Infrastructure Regulation and Financing, ed. C von Hirschhausen, T. Beckers and K. Mitusch, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004, pp. 177-198
  • EU enlargement and transport infrastructure, in Transport Political and Economic Transport Strategies of EU Enlargement, ed. B Wieland, Federal Minstry for Transport, Construction and Housing and Deutsche Verkehrswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin, 2003 pp.54-67
  • Immigration, labour mobility and EU enlargement, in Through the Paper Curtain: Insiders and Outsiders in the New Europe, ed. J Smith and C Jenkins, Chatham House Papers, RIIA, Blackwell, Oxford, 2003 pp.35-60 (with Matloob Piracha)
  • Changing patterns of cross Channel activity: Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais 1985-2010, in Actes du Colloque: Espaces Littoraux en Mutation, ed. A. Hequette, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque, 2002, pp.129-135
  • Sustainable mobility in an age of internationalisation, in The Region in the New Economy, ed. Yoshiro Higano, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot, Kobus van Wijk. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002, pp.313-327
  • Introduction, in Transport Infrastructure (Classics in Transport Analysis) ed. Roger Stough, Roger Vickerman, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp. Edward Elgar, London, 2002, pp xiii-xxv (with Roger Stough, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp)
  • The role of infrastructure for expansion and integration, in Regional Development Reconsidered, ed. G.Atalik, M.M.Fischer. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2002, pp. 148-159
  • Restructuring transport networks, in Regional Development Reconsidered, ed. G.Atalik, M.M.Fischer. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2002, pp. 137-147
  • How large is the gap between present and efficient transport prices in Europe?, in Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union ed. B De Borger and S Proost, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2001, pp389-412 (with John Peirson, Stef Proost, and others)
  • What is wrong with transport prices in London, in Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union ed. B De Borger and S Proost, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2001, pp296-328 (with John Peirson, Duncan Sharp)
  • Computation of the internal costs of transport in the model, in Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union ed. B De Borger and S Proost, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2001, pp182-190 (with John Peirson)
  • External accident costs and the relationship between road accidents and traffic flows, in Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union ed. B De Borger and S Proost, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2001, pp170-181 (with Andrew Dickerson, John Peirson)
  • Policy reform packages, in Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union ed. B De Borger and S Proost, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2001, pp51-61 (with Bruno De Borger, John Peirson)
  • An overview of policy instruments, in Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union ed. B De Borger and S Proost, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2001, pp37-50 (with Bruno De Borger, John Peirson)
  • Long Term Impacts of the Channel Tunnel: Methodology and Evidence. in The Regional Development Impacts of the Oresund Bridge - Proceedings from an international research seminar, ed. Anne K Andersen and Anders Karlstrom. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (TRITA-IP FR 01-94). pp. 245-261
  • The concept of optimal transport systems, in Handbook of Transport Systems and Traffic Control (Handbooks in Transport Volume 3) ed. K.J.Button and D.A Hensher, Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, pp. 47-59
  • El impacto especial de la inversion en infraestructura del transporte: implicaciones financieras en un modelo federal, in Las Redes Transeuropeas (RTE) y el Modelo Federal de la UE: Una vision desde Euskadi ed. F Aldecoa, Marcial Pons Ediciones Juridícas y Sociales, S.A. Madrid, 2001, pp.23-41
  • Economic impacts of large transport infrastructure projects, in Effecten Magneetzweefbaan Randstad - Noord-Nederland ed. J. Oosterhaven and D Strijker, Stichting Ruimtelijke Economie Groningen, 2001, pp. 15-27
  • Migration and the Efficiency of European Labour Markets, in Spatial Change and Interregional Flows in the Integrating Europe - Essays in Honour of Karin Peschel ed. J Bröcker and H Herrmann, Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, 2000, pp. 157-170 ( with Sule Akkoyunlu)
  • Borders, migration and labour market dynamics in a changing Europe, in Borders, Regions and People ed. M van der Velde and H van Houtum, European Research in Regional Science 10, Pion, London, 2000, pp.32-46 (with Harry Papapanagos)
Articles
  • Appraising transport investments in a regulatory regime Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 15, 273-277, 2009
  • Regulation, transport and regional performance, Studies in Regional Science, 39, 5-18, 2009
  • ‘Multi-level policy making in transport: the problems for border regions’, International Journal of Public Policy, 3, 228-245, 2008
  • Provision of Public Transport Under Conflicting Regulatory Regimes, Transportation Research Part A 42, 1176–1182, 2008
  • Transit investment and economic development, Research in Transportation Economics 23, 107-115, 2008
  • Multi-level policy making in transport: the problems for border regions, International Journal of Public Policy, forthcoming elit.
  • Cost-benefit analysis and large-scale infrastructure projects: state of the art and challenges, Environment & Planning B, 34, 598-610, 2007
  • Trans-European Networks: Policy and Appraisal, Scienze Regionali -Italian Journal of Regional Science, 5(2), 71-87, 2006
  • The Interplay between Security Factors, European Integration and Security in Central and Eastern Europe, Journal of International Business and Economics, 5, 152-168, 2006 (with C Stoian)
  • Maintenance incentives under different infrastructure regimes, Utilities Policy, 12, 315-322, 2004
  • Transport and regional science: is the 'death of distance' premature? Papers in Regional Science, 83, 229-248, 2004 (with P Rietveld)
  • Governance across borders: lessons for China from trans-border integration in the European Union, Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 2, 333-353, 2003 (with I Holliday)
  • Transport in an integrating Europe: sustainable development and cohesion, Investigaciones Regionales, No. 3, 163-174, 2003
  • How large is the gap between present and efficient transport prices in Europe? Transport Policy, 9, 41-57, 2002 (with S Proost, K Van Dender, C Courcelle, B De Borger, J Peirson, D Sharp, E Gibbons, M O'Mahony, Q Heaney, J Van Den Bergh, E Verhoef)
  • Evaluation methodologies for transport projects in the UK, Transport Policy, 7, 7-16, 2000
  • Economic growth effects of transport infrastructure, Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, 20, 99-115, 2000
  • Road accidents and traffic flow: an econometric investigation, Economica, 67, 101-121, 2000 (with Andrew Dickerson and John Peirson)

Teaching

Postgraduate
  • EC877 International Economics (Brussels)
  • EC878 Development Economics (Brussels)
  • EC879 Economics of European Integration (Brussels)
  • EC826 Project Appraisal (Brussels)

PhD supervision

Current PhD students
  • Mr Ufuk Bebek
  • Mr Thomas Singh
Past PhD students
  • Dr Abdallah Nasseredine: "The Effects of Democracy on the Budget Balance, Income, Inequality and Economic Growth" Completed 2009.
  • Dr Ioannis Bornakis: "Competitiveness, Trade and Productivity: with Special Reference to Greece." Completed 2008.
  • Dr Gerado Angeles: "Economic Liberalisation and Income Distribution" completed 2007.
  • Dr Maria Decuir-Viruez: "Institutions and economic growth: Regional strategies in Mexico 1970-2000." Completed 2006.
  • Dr Carmen Stoian: "The interplay between foreign direct investment, security and European integration by comparing Poland and Romania." Completed 2004.

Administrative roles