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Prof. John Preston BA MA PhD MCIT FRGS

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Academic Staff: Professor
Photograph: Prof.  John Preston
Phone   023 8059 4660
Fax   023 8059 3152
E-mail   jpreston@soton.ac.uk
Room   2015
Building   22

Division   Transportation

Admin Duties     Head of Research Division, Module Coordinator

Biography
Professor Preston took over as Director of TRG in July 2008.  He has over 20 years experience in transport teaching and research.  He has taught transport options on Economics, Engineering, Geography, Management and Planning courses. His research in transport covers demand and cost modelling, regulatory studies, and land-use and environment interactions. His initial work concentrated on rail but subsequent work has covered all the major modes of transport. He has held over 100 research grants and contracts, worth over  £3 million, and has published over 160 articles, book chapters, conference and working papers. He is editor of Transport Policy and a member of the World Conference on Transport Research Society Scientific Committee. He is an elected Fellow of the Transport Research Foundation and an adviser on transport issues to  the House of Commons and Hampshire County Council.

His current work at Southampton includes leadership of Southampton Railway Systems Research, work on rail economics  for Rail Research UK and the leadership of the iConnect consortium examining  walking and cycling.
Teaching

Modules taught by Prof. John Preston 
Research Grants

Research Grants for Prof. John Preston 
Publications


 Journal Papers - Academic Journals 

 Journal Papers - Professional Journals 

 Journal Papers - Popular Journals 

 Conference Contributions - Refereed 

 Conference Contributions - Other 

 Official Reports 

 Book - Authored 

 Edited work - contribution 

 Book - Edited 

 Editorship - Journal 

 Commissions 

 Public Appearances - Keynote lectures etc. 

 Book - Chapter 

 Unspecified Type of Publication 

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