Jonathan Cowie
Jonathan Cowie

Dr Jonathan Cowie MCIHT, FHEA

Lecturer T&R

 0131 455 2210

  J.Cowie@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Jonathan Cowie is a lecturer in Transport Economics and programme leader of the MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering.  He teaches modules on transport policy, freight transport, public transport and transport economics, and has considerable experience of teaching research methods.  Jonathan’s main research interests are in public transport supply side economics (regulation, competition, production economics), freight transport and research methodologies.  He is author of the book ‘The Economics of Transport’ published by Routledge and joint editor of the Routledge Handbook of the Principles of Transport Economics published in August 2917.

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  • CIHT PTK TPP Assessor

 

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  • South East Scotland Transport Partnership Bus Stakeholders Congress
  • SURFLOGH Midterm Conference
  • Expert Witness, Scottish Transport Bill Stakeholder Event

 

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Delivering on sustainable logistics by thinking inside the box – a case study of a successful business model

Presentation / Conference
Cowie, J., & Fisken, K. (2019, May)
Delivering on sustainable logistics by thinking inside the box – a case study of a successful business model. Paper presented at 22nd annual Scottish Transport Applications and Research (STAR), Glasgow Caledonian University
Much research and EU research funding has been devoted to identifying the key factors that lead to a financially sustainable urban freight consolidation centre. Despite much ...

Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Journal Article
Julien, S., Cowie, J., & Monios, J. (2020)
Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States. Maritime Economics and Logistics, 22(2), 239-264. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41278-018-0115-y
This paper investigates the evolutionary technical efficiency and productivity of ports in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The focus is primarily on Caribbean SIDS, ben...

The bus industry in Scotland – just a bunch of profiteering opportunists?

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Cowie, J. (2018, May)
The bus industry in Scotland – just a bunch of profiteering opportunists?. Paper presented at Scottish Transport Applications and Research (STAR) 2018, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow
The Transport Act 1985 privatised and deregulated the bus industry in Great Britain outside of London, with the intention of creating a competitive industry that would compete...

Long term productivity gains in the privatised British passenger rail industry – A case study of Malmquist productivity index measurements

Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2018)
Long term productivity gains in the privatised British passenger rail industry – A case study of Malmquist productivity index measurements. Research in Transportation Business and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2018.01.001
This paper assesses long term productivity in the privatised British passenger rail industry using a Malmquist productivity index (MPI) generated using three different efficie...

Britain’s railways were nationalised 70 years ago – let’s not do it again

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Cowie, J. (2018)
Britain’s railways were nationalised 70 years ago – let’s not do it again
It is 70 years since the era of public rail ownership began in Great Britain. The British Transport Commission formally took control of the operation and planning of the whole...

Competition and complementarity in road freight: key drivers and consequences of a dominant market position

Book Chapter
Cowie, J. (2017)
Competition and complementarity in road freight: key drivers and consequences of a dominant market position. In Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics, (348-367). London: Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.

Efficiency assessment in transport service provision

Book Chapter
Merkert, R., & Cowie, J. (2017)
Efficiency assessment in transport service provision. In Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics, (251-268). London: Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.

The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics

Book
J. Cowie, & S. Ison (Eds.), (2017)
The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics
The Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics offers the first state of the art overview of the discipline of transport economics as it stands today, reflective of key researc...

Contract Re-Award and Consumer Sovereignty, the case of British Rail Privatisation.

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Cowie, J. (2017, August)
Contract Re-Award and Consumer Sovereignty, the case of British Rail Privatisation. Paper presented at Competition and Ownership in Land Based Public Transport (Thredbo 15
The Railways Act 1993 divided and sold off the state owned British Rail in its entirety and introduced competitive tender into the industry. This paper reviews the industry o...

Rail regulation, consumer sovereignty and the results of eighteen years of British rail privatisation.

Presentation / Conference
Cowie, J. (2016, January)
Rail regulation, consumer sovereignty and the results of eighteen years of British rail privatisation. Paper presented at 48th Annual UTSG Conference, Bristol, UK

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