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"A lot of my work [transport economics] was for Whitlam's lot and I enjoyed lots of first class air travel and booze..."
2004
I was a late arrival at ABHS, having moved from Kenya via UK with my parents and brother John (who left in the year before the Leaving). We were told we spoke posh but I guess that has long gone.
After the Leaving I went to UNSW and studied Economics (I think a few of you came along for the ride - certainly Alex Wardrop did) and I managed a First class honours in economics (strange when you think I did not do well in economics at the Leaving). Big break came when I started a PhD on transport economics and moved heavy duty into econometrics and microeconomics which I finished in 1972 and then headed off in my little British racing green Wolseley to Melbourne (that car cost me $400). I lived at Queen’s Colege Melbourne Uni for 2 years - free board if I tutored 1 hour a week - bloody good deal.
Worked in Melbourne as a freelance consultant in transport economics (and big first work was on the National Highway System and then the Third Sydney Airport that we are still waiting for). A lot of my work was for Whitlam’s lot and I enjoyed lots of first class air travel and booze.
Met my beautiful (still is) wife Johanna who had arrived from Holland for a holiday and because of me never went back to live. There is something about these European women. We were married in early 1975 when we went of to Uni of Oxford where I took up an appointment as a post doc research fellow and a Fellow at St Cross College (great time was had by all - especially the port and snuff nights). After a couple of years in this idyllic setting we were made an offer at Macquarie Uni and back we came. That was 12 years at that place (not bad in beginning but never again). I got a Chair in Management there in 1989 and left soon after to join Uni of Sydney where I am today. Great place in Business School running my own Institute of 30 folks. I set up my own Institute in 1990 which has grown and been recognised as a national centre of excellence with over 30 staff. Life is good at Sydney, supplemented by my business interests. The Hensher group Pty is into econometric software with offices in Sydney and New York (the big seeler is Limdep/Nlogit for those into stats).
We have two children (adults now): Andrew 35 and Danielle 33. Andrew works for William Hill and is second in charge next to Tom Waterhouse while Danielle is the Executive officer at a large US business services financial entity in Sydney.Over the years have lived in Southern California (UC Irvine Orange County), UK (University of Oxford), and Holland.
I am a Professor of Management, and Director of the Institute of Transport Studies: The Australian Key Centre of Teaching and Research in Transport Management in The Faculty of Economics at The University of Sydney. David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Past President of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research and a Past Vice-Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the World Conference of Transport Research. David is on the editorial boards of 10 of the leading transport journals and Area Editor of Transport Reviews. David is series and volume editor of the handbook series “Handbooks in Transport” published by one of the world’s most prestigious academic publishing houses - Elsevier/Pergamon press. He has published extensively (over 300 papers) in the leading international transport journals and key journals in economics as well as five books. His most recent books are on the Demand for Automobiles, published by North-Holland the Bus and Coach Business (Allen and Unwin), Transport: An Economics and Management Perspective (Oxford Univeristy Press), and Stated Choice Methods (with Jordan Louviere and Joffre Swait – Cambridge University Press). He has recently completed a book on Applied Choice Analysis – A Primer (with John Rose) forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. His particular interests are transport economics, transport strategy, sustainable transport, productivity measurement, traveller behaviour analysis, stated choice experiments, dynamic discrete-continuous choice modelling, privatisation and deregulation. David has recently embarked on a major research endeavour with Prof Stewart Jones that uses advanced discrete choice methods to study the performance of firms with a specific focus on the distress of firms. David has advised numerous government and private sector organisations on matters related to transportation especially matters related to forecasting demand for existing and new transportation services, for example the Speedrail project, the Liverpool-Parramatta Transitway, the North-West Sydney Transport Study, the M2, M4, M5 and cross-city tunnel tollroads. David is regarded as Australia’s most eminent expert on matters relating to travel demand. Appointments have included: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government’s Peer Review Committee for the Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (N Z) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, and a member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin.
2016
Life is still good and we now live in Waverton on our great harbour and with the children well and truly grown up Johanna and I are true downsizers with a new life of no gardening, no pool, no long commute etc. but babysitting is the new trade!
Been at Sydney uni for 27 years now and still going strong. See a video attached on me today instead of a photo. See
David Hensher – AM
MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA 26 Jan 2023
Professor David Alan HENSHER, Waverton NSW 2060
For significant service to transport, and to supply chain management.
CURRICULUM VITAE
David Alan HENSHER
AM, B. Com (Hons I), Ph.D., FASSA., FCILT., FAITPM, MAPA
Member of the Order of Australia (OA)
Companion - Engineers Australia
Chaired Professor of Management
Founder and Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS):
The Australian Key Centre of Teaching and Research in Transport Management,
The University of Sydney Business School
The University of Sydney
http://sydney.edu.au/business/itls/staff/davidh
https://imoveaustralia.com/research-capability/institute-of-transport-and-logistics-studies/
https://sydney.edu.au/courses/courses/pc/master-of-transport.html
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=22m62pAAAAAJ
https://imovecrc.com/smart-mobility-expert/david-hensher/
(Note: This URL relates essentially to ITLS – 1st in Australia and 6th in the world)
https://abdc.edu.au/time-on-roads/
https://imoveaustralia.com/project/maas-trial-sydney/
https://cutr.adobeconnect.com/pzn2mdhmz97f/
https://imoveaustralia.com/news-articles/personal-public-mobility/2020-maas-webinar-video-v2/
WFH and COVID1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDNDox3oPhU
Q&A; https://youtu.be/aUr3Y5E0x4w
My contributions to iMOVE CRC in 2019-2020: https://imoveaustralia.com/author/profhensherd/
https://www.businessbecause.com/news/insights/7759/15-minute-city
https://drivenmedia.com.au/wp/overdrive-alfa-tonale-nissan-patrol-old-embracing-local-trips/ (5.58 min into talks)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFatMl_ZjG8jC-rFDLuRl0VpVpdzeBzD-hZrrt_pv_M/htmlview
Celebrating 30 years of ITLS, 15 May 2021
https://business.sydney.edu.au/events/2021/itls-30th-anniversary
Business Address: Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) H04
http://sydney.edu.au/business/itls/about/directions
The University of Sydney Business School
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA
Telephone (PA): + 61 2 9114 1824
Mobile: + 61 (0) 418 433 057
E-mail: David.Hensher@Sydney.edu.au
Internet: http://sydney.edu.au/business/itls
Date of Birth: 31 July, 1947
Place of Birth: Bromley, Kent, England
Marital Status: Married to Johanna, two children (born 1981 (Andrew), 1983 (Danielle))
Mentor: The late Professor Michael E. Beesley CBE, London Business School
David Hensher is Professor of Management, and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS): The Australian Key Centre of Teaching and Research in Transport Management in The Business School at The University of Sydney. ITLS is ranked under Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) at level 5 (‘well above world standards’) and 10th in the world in its field of expertise. Educated in Kenya, East Africa (Parklands, Lord Delamere), England (Lindfield, see https://www.slindoncollege.co.uk/about; Oxford: http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/) and Australia (UNSW). In January 2023, David was appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (OA).
David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), Recipient of the 2009 IATBR (International Association of Travel Behaviour Research) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition for his long-standing and exceptional contribution to IATBR as well as to the wider travel behaviour community (http://iatbr.weebly.com/award-winners.html), Recipient of 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for lifelong contribution to transport, Recipient of the 2009 Bus NSW (Bus and Coach Association) Outstanding Contribution to Industry Award, and Recipient of the 2012 best paper released by the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME). David is also the recipient of the Smart 2013 Premier Award for Excellence in Supply Chain Management, and recipient of the 2014 Institute of Transportation Engineers (Australia and New Zealand) Transport Profession Award to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development of the transport/traffic engineering profession over a sustained period (https://www.ite.org.au/iteanz-awards/contribution-to-the-transport-profession-award/); recipient of 2016 Award for Outstanding Research as part of the inaugural University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. David is also the recipient of the 2019 John Shaw Medal which honours an industry champion who has made a lasting contribution to Australia's roads (https://www.roads.org.au/About-us/John-Shaw-Medal). Selected in 2018 by The University of Sydney as one of 25 research stars for the ARC Inaugural Engagement and Impact submission (ranked one of 12 with High Impact). In 2021 an annual prize was established and named in honour of David for best paper in transport demand modelling at the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF)
https://australasiantransportresearchforum.org.au/prizes/ and in 2021 David received the Business School’s Research Engagement Award with colleagues. In January 2021 and February 2023, David was announced as the #1 economist in Australia in research.com/scientists-rankings/economics-and-finance/au. A Director of Volvo Educational and Research Foundation (VREF) Centre of Excellence in Bus Rapid Transit (2010 onwards), Emeritus Member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel 2007-2010 (Chaired by Minister of Transport), Honorary Fellow Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) Academy, Past President of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research and a Past Vice-Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the World Conference of Transport Research. David is the Executive Chair and Co-Founder of The International Conference in Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (the Thredbo Series http://www.thredbo-conference-series.org/), now in its 32nd year. David is on the editorial boards of 17 of the leading transport journals including one of 4 members of the Distinguished Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part A. David was appointed in 1999 by one of the world’s most prestigious academic publishing houses - Elsevier Science press - as series and volume co-editor of a handbook series Handbooks in Transport. In 2010 he was appointed by Routledge Publishers (UK) as Editor of a four-volume major works in Transport Economics as well as Edward Elgar Publishers as Series Editor for volumes on Transport and the Environment. He has published extensively (over 730 papers) in the leading international transport and economics journals (such as The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Applied Economics, Empirical Economics, Transportation Research Parts A, B, C, D, and E as well as 17 books, and is Australia’s most cited transport academic. David has over 67,250 citations of his contributions in Google Scholar (20th most cited academic at the University of Sydney in all disciplines) and an H-index of 113. Recognised in September 2020 and 2021 as Australia’s leading researcher in the field of Transportation as reported in the Australian newspaper’s review of Australia’s research excellence. David is ranked second in the world for economists in the field of discrete choice models, as of March 2021 (https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.dcm.html) and ITLS (and the Business School at Sydney) is ranked fourth. David in 2022 is ranked #1 globally for scientists in transport and logistics (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFatMl_ZjG8jC-rFDLuRl0VpVpdzeBzD-hZrrt_pv_M/htmlview). His books include the Demand for Automobiles, published by North-Holland, the Bus and Coach Business (with Ann Brewer published - Allen and Unwin), Transport: An Economics and Management Perspective (With Ann Brewer – Oxford University Press), Stated Choice Methods (with Jordan Louviere and Joffre Swait – Cambridge University Press), Applied Choice Analysis - a Primer (with John Rose and Bill Greene – Cambridge University Press, 1st and 2nd editions), Ordered Choice Models (with Bill Greene – Cambridge University Press), Mobility as a Service (MaaS) (with ITLS colleagues) – Elsevier Science, and Bus Transportation - Elsevier Science. Particular interests are transport economics, transport strategy, sustainable transport, productivity measurement, traveller behaviour analysis, choice analysis, stated choice experiments, process heuristics, and institutional reform (PPPs, privatisation tendering and contracting). David has advised numerous government and private sector organisations in many countries on matters related to transportation, especially matters related to forecasting demand for existing and new transportation services; for example the Speedrail high speed rail project, fast rail in regional NSW, the Fiji Travel Survey, the Liverpool-Parramatta Transitway, the North-West Rail project, West Connex, the Sydney Metro, public transport elasticities, and numerous toll road projects throughout Australia and internationally. David is regarded as Australia’s most eminent expert on matters relating to travel demand and valuation and transport reform. Appointments include: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government’s Peer Review Committee for the Sydney Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (NZ) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, Peer reviewer of the NZ Land Passenger Transport Procurement Strategy for Land Transport NZ, member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin; economic adviser to Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers on valuation methods in IP context; panel member of Transport NSW benchmarking program; specialist toll road project adviser to Thiess, member of Infrastructure Australia’s reference panel on public transport, adviser to the West Connex toll road Project, adviser to Deloitte Access Economics, Transport for NSW and peer reviewer for Southern Water (UK) regulatory pricing reform, and member of Board of Advice of ITLS (Africa). In 2014 David was appointed as a Panel Member to Review The Faculty of Management at The University of Johannesburg and in 2016 to review the Department of Management Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. Member of Transport for NSW Connected and Automated Vehicle Stakeholder Reference Group (formed in 2017) and Infrastructure NSW Smart Cities Working Group.
Photo with my brother John after left school
A recent photo with Johanna, at Government House
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