Martin Higginson Transport Research & Consultancy

Historical research City of London Polytechnic, 1968-1972 Transport policy between the wars, 1918-1939 Comparison between Road and Air Service Licensing Polytechnic of Central London 1978-1987 The efficiency of British urban bus operation and its financing PhD thesis, 1987 Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York University/National Railway Museum Mapping public transport in Britain, 1918-1939: Introductory note on the origins of bus services, 2005 Conferences and seminars: papers and management Birkbeck College, London University The Commuter’s Railway, 1986 Tramway London, 1987 Universities Transport Studies Group The influences of geography, demography and company age on bus company performance, 1989 London Transport Museum London Tramways 40 years after closure, 1992 Roads & Road Transport History Association Can the form of competition between buses, trams and cars provide pointers for current policy? Lessons from history for transport policy-makers: the inter- war years 1918-1939, 2000 The evolution of municipal trading, 2006 Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York University/National Railway Museum The end of tramways in York and London: a comparison, 2005 Public transport in transition: electric trams to motor buses - causes and consequences of change, 2006 Publications Tramway London: background to the abandonment of London’s Tramways, 1931-1952 LRTA, Birkbeck College, London Transport Museum, 1993 The evolution of municipal trading, Proceedings of Conference 2006 Public or Private, Roads & Road Transport History Association, 2007 The companion to public road transport history in Great Britain and Ireland, forthcoming: contributing author National Railway Museum Exhibitor Catching the Phoenix photographic exhibition, 2005-06 International liaison Sierra Leone and UK National Railway Museums: site visit – collection of information for locomotive restoration project, 2006-07 Memberships Heritage Line (Darlington-Bishop Auckland) Community Rail Partnership, Executive Steering Group, NRM Locomotion, Shildon Friends of National Railway Museum Friends of London Transport museum sierra

Historical research
City of London Polytechnic, 1968-1972
Transport policy between the wars, 1918-1939
Comparison between Road and Air Service Licensing

Polytechnic of Central London 1978-1987
The efficiency of British urban bus operation and its financing PhD thesis, 1987

Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York University/National Railway Museum
Mapping public transport in Britain, 1918-1939: Introductory note on the origins of bus services, 2005

Conferences and seminars: papers and management
Birkbeck College, London University
The Commuter’s Railway, 1986
Tramway London, 1987

Universities Transport Studies Group
The influences of geography, demography and company age on bus company performance, 1989

London Transport Museum
London Tramways 40 years after closure, 1992

Roads & Road Transport History Association
Can the form of competition between buses, trams and cars provide pointers for current policy? Lessons from history for transport policy-makers: the inter- war years 1918-1939, 2000
The evolution of municipal trading, 2006

Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York University/National Railway Museum
The end of tramways in York and London: a comparison, 2005
Public transport in transition: electric trams to motor buses - causes and consequences of change, 2006

Publications
Tramway London: background to the abandonment of London’s Tramways, 1931-1952
LRTA, Birkbeck College, London Transport Museum, 1993
The evolution of municipal trading, Proceedings of Conference 2006 Public or Private,
Roads & Road Transport History Association, 2007
The companion to public road transport history in Great Britain and Ireland,
forthcoming: Editor, 2008

National Railway Museum
Exhibitor Catching the Phoenix photographic exhibition, 2005-06
International liaison Sierra Leone and UK National Railway Museums: site visit – collection of information for locomotive restoration project, 2006-07

Memberships
Heritage Line (Darlington-Bishop Auckland) Community Rail Partnership, Executive Steering Group, NRM Locomotion, Shildon
Friends of National Railway Museum
Friends of London Transport Museum