Roger Vickerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1081992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Vickerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Vickerman |
| SIGNATURE | VICKERMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4258-8474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Place-based neighbourhood planning approaches to net zero transport
Integrating place-based neighbourhood planning approaches with transport sector strategies is essential for achieving net zero transport. However, systematic research on the role of different neighbourhood types in reducing transport emissions remains limited, constraining the ability of place-based planning practices to inform the development of integrated strategies. This gap partly stems from the lack of a theoretically informed neighbourhood …
Can transport infrastructure change regions’ economic fortunes? Some evidence from Europe and China
Can transport infrastructure change regions’ economic fortunes? Some evidence from Europe and China. Regional Studies. Claims and counterclaims about the likely impact of new transport infrastructure on a region’s economic performance have existed for centuries going back to the early days of canals and railways. High-speed rail (HSR) as a new type of infrastructure has just over 50 years of existence. The persistent debate is questioning the pow…
High-speed rail and regional development: The case of intermediate stations
Transportation Economics for Planners in the Twenty-First Century
The transportation system plays a crucial multifaceted role in the functioning, growth, and development of urban and regional economies. It shapes, is shaped by, as well as leads urban growth. Transport economics is concerned with developing analytical tools and approaches to understanding, managing, and optimizing the structure and functioning of transportation and related markets within regional and urban economies. This article outlines the co…
A handbook of transport economics
Bringing together insights and perspectives from close to 70 of the world's leading experts in the field, this timely Handbook provides an up-to-date guide to the most recent and state-of-the-art advances in transport economics. The comprehensive coverage includes topics such as the relationship between transport and the spatial economy, recent advances in travel demand analysis, the external costs of transport, investment appraisal, pricing, equ…
Applying the Dismal Science: When Economists Give Advice to Governments ‐ Edited by Iain McLean and Colin Jennings
Governance across Borders: Lessons for China from Trans-border Integration in the European Union
Steps are currently being taken to enhance economic and political integration across the various borders that divide Hong Kong and Macau from the Guangdong parts of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in southern China. As China's experience with integration of this kind is limited, the article looks for lessons to the European Union (EU), where such experience is extensive. It argues that the benefits of trans-border integration do not accrue automatica…
Transport in regional science: The “death of distance” is premature
Road Accidents and Traffic Flows: An Econometric Investigation
This paper develops an empirical model of the relationship between road traffic accidents and traffic flows. The analysis focuses on the accident externality, which is determined mainly by the difference between the marginal and average risks. The model is estimated using a new data‐set which combines hourly London traffic count data from automated vehicle recorders together with police records of road accidents. The accident‐flow relationship is…
Accessibility and Economic Development in Europe
There is continuing debate on the role of transport infrastructure and changes in accessibility on regional economic development. The emphasis in recent European Union policy on the development of trans-European Networks (TENs) provides a focus for a re-evaluation. Much of the debate assumes that improvements in accessibility will lead to economic development and, by implication, to greater cohesion. This paper identifies some of the major diffic…
Local and Regional Implications of Trans-European Transport Networks: The Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Trans-European transport networks in the European Union have been based on plans submitted by the member states, in most cases already existing plans. One of the largest elements is the planned North European High Speed Rail Network (Paris-Brussels-Köln-Amsterdam-London). This involves five member states, of which one, France, has completed its contribution. Part of the Belgian contribution is under construction, and agreement has been reached on…
The Microeconomic Analysis of the External Costs of Road Accidents
A disaggregated model of the marginal external costs of road accidents imposed by different road users is developed. The model explicitly specifies the adjustment of road users to increases in accident risks imposed by additional road use and is used to estimate the marginal external costs of road accidents. The results, under certain assumptions, are up to 50% less than those obtained using the methods of previous studies. However, the adjustmen…
High-speed rail in Europe: Experience and issues for future development
Transport and Land Use
Views on strategic transport research
European transport: Problems and policies
Estimating the External Costs of UK Passenger Transport: The First Step towards an Efficient Transport Market
The external costs of transport are important in the analysis of transport policies and projects. Such analyses require the estimation of external costs on a consistent and appropriate basis. It is appropriate to measure these costs at the margin, and in this paper, for the first time, the marginal external costs for UK passenger transport are estimated. These costs were estimated by type and time of journey for different sectors of the UK passen…
Transport Infrastructure and Region Building in the European Community
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Ian Holliday and Roger Vickerman of the University of Kent examine the regional impact of the Channel Tunnel in the context of the different political and administrative systems prevailing within Britain and France. Eurotunnel, the company which is licensed by the French and British governments to build and operate the Tunnel, has no government finance or guarantees and hence the public authorities have no direct co…
Location Choice and Labour Market Perceptions: A Discrete Choice Study
HENLEY A., CARRUTH A., THOMAS A. and VICKERMAN R. (1989) Location choice and labour market perceptions: a discrete choice study, Reg. Studies 23, 431–445. The location of industry in an economy raises many important issues for economists and governments interested in economic efficiency and equity. One interesting question is whether economic factors have an important role to play in explaining location patterns. This paper uses a survey data set…
The Channel Tunnel: Consequences for Regional Growth and Development
VICKERMAN R. W. (1987) The Channel Tunnel: consequences for regional growth and development, Reg. Studies 21, 187–197. The building of a Channel Tunnel has been heralded as having a major impact on the neighbouring regions of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais, and also on other British regions, both through short-run impacts of construction and in the longer run through changes in accessibility and competitiveness. This paper makes a preliminary assess…
Urban Economics
Leisure and Social Change: Some Experiences of a Programme of Research in the United Kingdom
The upsurge of interest in Leisure research in the 1960s and 1970s led in the U.K. to the establishment in 1978 of a joint Panel on Recreation and Leisure Research funded jointly by the Sports Council and the Social Science Research Council. This Panel was to have a five-year life in which it was to formulate a programme of research, commission specific research projects within that programme and to monitor and improve on communications between i…
On Output Measurement and Benefit Evaluation in Leisure
The paper argues that many cost-benefit studies in the leisure sector fail to identify correctly the output of recreational facilities and hence become cost-effectiveness rather than true cost-benefit studies. Building on some research on the benefits of urban sports centres conducted for the U.K. Sports Council the paper argues the need to distinguish between intermediate and final outputs. Traditional means of measuring outputs through measurin…
Trade Unions and Society: Some Lessons of the British Experience
Accessibility and Economic Development in Europe
There is continuing debate on the role of transport infrastructure and changes in accessibility on regional economic development. The emphasis in recent European Union policy on the development of trans-European Networks (TENs) provides a focus for a re-evaluation. Much of the debate assumes that improvements in accessibility will lead to economic development and, by implication, to greater cohesion. This paper identifies some of the major diffic…
High-speed rail and regional development: The case of intermediate stations
Can transport infrastructure change regions’ economic fortunes? Some evidence from Europe and China
Can transport infrastructure change regions’ economic fortunes? Some evidence from Europe and China. Regional Studies. Claims and counterclaims about the likely impact of new transport infrastructure on a region’s economic performance have existed for centuries going back to the early days of canals and railways. High-speed rail (HSR) as a new type of infrastructure has just over 50 years of existence. The persistent debate is questioning the pow…
The Channel Tunnel: Consequences for Regional Growth and Development
VICKERMAN R. W. (1987) The Channel Tunnel: consequences for regional growth and development, Reg. Studies 21, 187–197. The building of a Channel Tunnel has been heralded as having a major impact on the neighbouring regions of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais, and also on other British regions, both through short-run impacts of construction and in the longer run through changes in accessibility and competitiveness. This paper makes a preliminary assess…
Transport Infrastructure and Region Building in the European Community
Opportunity, Preference and Constraint: An Approach to the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration
The paper aims to consider how the fragmentation in the literature on migration may be overcome and to develop an integrated model of migration which can be applied to all types of population flow in the London metropolitan region. The need for such an approach follows from the complexity of flows observed at the 112-zone level of disaggregation as well as the unresolved problems of the literature. Despite this catholicity of aim the theoretical …
Location Choice and Labour Market Perceptions: A Discrete Choice Study
HENLEY A., CARRUTH A., THOMAS A. and VICKERMAN R. (1989) Location choice and labour market perceptions: a discrete choice study, Reg. Studies 23, 431–445. The location of industry in an economy raises many important issues for economists and governments interested in economic efficiency and equity. One interesting question is whether economic factors have an important role to play in explaining location patterns. This paper uses a survey data set…
Urban and Regional Change, Migration and Commuting — The Dynamics of Workplace, Residence and Transport Choice
A key factor in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas is the relationship between workplace and residential location. This is particularly critical in any attempt to model the changes in structure which result from intra-metropolitan moves of employment and households. This paper attempts to provide a more satisfactory framework for understanding the dynamics of these changes. Empirical evidence is presented for the London region based on b…
Transport in regional science: The “death of distance” is premature
Road Accidents and Traffic Flows: An Econometric Investigation
This paper develops an empirical model of the relationship between road traffic accidents and traffic flows. The analysis focuses on the accident externality, which is determined mainly by the difference between the marginal and average risks. The model is estimated using a new data‐set which combines hourly London traffic count data from automated vehicle recorders together with police records of road accidents. The accident‐flow relationship is…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Ian Holliday and Roger Vickerman of the University of Kent examine the regional impact of the Channel Tunnel in the context of the different political and administrative systems prevailing within Britain and France. Eurotunnel, the company which is licensed by the French and British governments to build and operate the Tunnel, has no government finance or guarantees and hence the public authorities have no direct co…
The new leisure society
The Microeconomic Analysis of the External Costs of Road Accidents
A disaggregated model of the marginal external costs of road accidents imposed by different road users is developed. The model explicitly specifies the adjustment of road users to increases in accident risks imposed by additional road use and is used to estimate the marginal external costs of road accidents. The results, under certain assumptions, are up to 50% less than those obtained using the methods of previous studies. However, the adjustmen…
A Demand Model for Leisure Travel
The nature of leisure travel is examined and a new approach to demand modelling is suggested that incorporates attraction and accessibility factors into a disaggregated trip generation model which is mode specific. Some experimental empirical estimation of a version of the model yields worthwhile results, and suggests lines for further research and development
Estimating the External Costs of UK Passenger Transport: The First Step towards an Efficient Transport Market
The external costs of transport are important in the analysis of transport policies and projects. Such analyses require the estimation of external costs on a consistent and appropriate basis. It is appropriate to measure these costs at the margin, and in this paper, for the first time, the marginal external costs for UK passenger transport are estimated. These costs were estimated by type and time of journey for different sectors of the UK passen…
The Evaluation of Benefits from Recreational Projects
Accessibility, Attraction, and Potential: A Review of Some Concepts and Their Use in Determining Mobility
Some confusion seems to have developed over the relationship between accessibility and travel patterns. Various concepts of attraction, accessibility, and potential are examined with the object of reaching a more satisfactory definition. Multivariate analysis of data relating to an urban area suggests that the influences of conventional accessibility indices are concealed by collinear socioeconomic variations; when these are separated there is a …
The Evaluation of Benefits from Recreational Projects
A Demand Model for Leisure Travel
The nature of leisure travel is examined and a new approach to demand modelling is suggested that incorporates attraction and accessibility factors into a disaggregated trip generation model which is mode specific. Some experimental empirical estimation of a version of the model yields worthwhile results, and suggests lines for further research and development
The Economics of Leisure and Recreation
The Evaluation of Urban Change: Equilibrium and Adaptive Approaches
The paper is concerned with the problem of providing a basis for the evaluation of major changes in urban infrastructure. Recent developments in general equilibrium modelling of urban systems have tackled these interdependencies between sectors which cause problems in the use of traditional partial equilibrium approaches. However, while such models offer valuable insights into the working and dynamic development of urban systems their use in asse…
The new leisure society
Opportunity, Preference and Constraint: An Approach to the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration
The paper aims to consider how the fragmentation in the literature on migration may be overcome and to develop an integrated model of migration which can be applied to all types of population flow in the London metropolitan region. The need for such an approach follows from the complexity of flows observed at the 112-zone level of disaggregation as well as the unresolved problems of the literature. Despite this catholicity of aim the theoretical …
The contribution of economics to the study of leisure: A review
The paper reviews aspects of the scope of the economist's interest in, and contribution to, the study of leisure. No attempt is made to provide a full and comprehensive guide to all leisure-related work with an economic content but rather to assess the main concerns of the economist, the current state of the art in tackling each of these concerns, and the main dimensions of future developments of relevance to those interested in leisure
Evaluating Urban Parks and Recreation
Urban and Regional Change, Migration and Commuting — The Dynamics of Workplace, Residence and Transport Choice
A key factor in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas is the relationship between workplace and residential location. This is particularly critical in any attempt to model the changes in structure which result from intra-metropolitan moves of employment and households. This paper attempts to provide a more satisfactory framework for understanding the dynamics of these changes. Empirical evidence is presented for the London region based on b…
Leisure and Social Change: Some Experiences of a Programme of Research in the United Kingdom
The upsurge of interest in Leisure research in the 1960s and 1970s led in the U.K. to the establishment in 1978 of a joint Panel on Recreation and Leisure Research funded jointly by the Sports Council and the Social Science Research Council. This Panel was to have a five-year life in which it was to formulate a programme of research, commission specific research projects within that programme and to monitor and improve on communications between i…
On Output Measurement and Benefit Evaluation in Leisure
The paper argues that many cost-benefit studies in the leisure sector fail to identify correctly the output of recreational facilities and hence become cost-effectiveness rather than true cost-benefit studies. Building on some research on the benefits of urban sports centres conducted for the U.K. Sports Council the paper argues the need to distinguish between intermediate and final outputs. Traditional means of measuring outputs through measurin…
Trade Unions and Society: Some Lessons of the British Experience
The Conceptualisation of Output and Cost-Benefit Evaluation for Leisure Facilities
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses have become widely used tools for the justification of leisure-related expenditures, but are based on a number of inadequate assumptions. The narrow conceptualisations both of outputs and of inputs, and an oversimplified production function linking them are the main problems. Participation is usually assumed to provide an adequate measure of output or benefit accruing to the participant, but it is a me…
Urban Economics
The Channel Tunnel: Consequences for Regional Growth and Development
VICKERMAN R. W. (1987) The Channel Tunnel: consequences for regional growth and development, Reg. Studies 21, 187–197. The building of a Channel Tunnel has been heralded as having a major impact on the neighbouring regions of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais, and also on other British regions, both through short-run impacts of construction and in the longer run through changes in accessibility and competitiveness. This paper makes a preliminary assess…
Location Choice and Labour Market Perceptions: A Discrete Choice Study
HENLEY A., CARRUTH A., THOMAS A. and VICKERMAN R. (1989) Location choice and labour market perceptions: a discrete choice study, Reg. Studies 23, 431–445. The location of industry in an economy raises many important issues for economists and governments interested in economic efficiency and equity. One interesting question is whether economic factors have an important role to play in explaining location patterns. This paper uses a survey data set…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Ian Holliday and Roger Vickerman of the University of Kent examine the regional impact of the Channel Tunnel in the context of the different political and administrative systems prevailing within Britain and France. Eurotunnel, the company which is licensed by the French and British governments to build and operate the Tunnel, has no government finance or guarantees and hence the public authorities have no direct co…
Transport Infrastructure and Region Building in the European Community
Estimating the External Costs of UK Passenger Transport: The First Step towards an Efficient Transport Market
The external costs of transport are important in the analysis of transport policies and projects. Such analyses require the estimation of external costs on a consistent and appropriate basis. It is appropriate to measure these costs at the margin, and in this paper, for the first time, the marginal external costs for UK passenger transport are estimated. These costs were estimated by type and time of journey for different sectors of the UK passen…
European transport: Problems and policies
High-speed rail in Europe: Experience and issues for future development
Transport and Land Use
Views on strategic transport research
The Microeconomic Analysis of the External Costs of Road Accidents
A disaggregated model of the marginal external costs of road accidents imposed by different road users is developed. The model explicitly specifies the adjustment of road users to increases in accident risks imposed by additional road use and is used to estimate the marginal external costs of road accidents. The results, under certain assumptions, are up to 50% less than those obtained using the methods of previous studies. However, the adjustmen…
Economics (25 works) · Political science (18 works) · Engineering (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Transport engineering (14 works) · Regional science (11 works) · Microeconomics (10 works)