{"id":828,"date":"2016-08-01T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=828"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:15:43","slug":"international-recognition-for-leading-transport-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2016\/08\/01\/international-recognition-for-leading-transport-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"International recognition for leading transport economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leading economist Professor Roger Vickerman has been awarded an international prize for his transport research.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/staff\/profiles\/roger-vickerman.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Professor Vickerman<\/span><\/a>, of the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">School of Economics<\/span><\/a>, was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctrs-society.com\/wctr-prize\/wctr-major-prize\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Jules Dupuit Prize<\/span><\/a> on 15 July at the World Conference on Transport Research, held in Shanghai, China.<\/p>\n<p>The prize, which is awarded every three years, acknowledges Professor Vickerman\u2019s lifetime achievements in the field of transport research.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Vickerman\u2019s research has focused on the relationship between transport, especially infrastructure, and regional development and integration in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he has worked on issues relating to Public Private Partnerships in transport. He has also served as a member of numerous Parliamentary committees on transport related issues and is a member of the Economic Advisory Panel for the HS2 project.<\/p>\n<p>The conference was organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctrs-society.com\/about-wctrs\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">World Conference on Transport Research Society<\/span><\/a>, which provides a forum for ideas on transport from different global stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The prize is named in honour of Jules Dupuit, a 19th century French engineer-economist considered to be the founder of transport economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading economist Professor Roger Vickerman has been awarded an international prize for his transport research. Professor Vickerman, of the University\u2019s School of Economics, was awarded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2016\/08\/01\/international-recognition-for-leading-transport-economist\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}