Mahinda Yapa Mudiyanselage
mahinda yapa mudiyanselage

Dr Mahinda Yapa Mudiyanselage PhD, BA Econ (Hons), Grad Cert (Research Management), CTHE, CMI, SFHEA, FCILT

Associate Professor

 0131 455 4612

  Y.Bandara@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Mahinda is an associate professor and the programme leader for MBA Business Leadership & Practice, and teaches in the area of supply chain and logistics, operations management, and management research and supervises MBA students in their research project, and also supervises undergraduate students in Work-Based Learning project and Business Live Project.
He graduated from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka specialising in Economics and Statistics. He obtained his PhD from National Center for Ports and Shipping, Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania. His main research interests include transport pricing and econometric application in maritime and port and transport economics, and SDGs and transport and logistics industry.
He has taught microeconomics, macroeconomics and international trade, transport policy and economics, transport infrastructure investment and appraisal and management research methodology and research ethics. He is now a Fellow member (FCILT) of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Sri Lanka. He was a Chartered Member (CMILT) from 2012-2021 and was the Vice President, Education (2021) of the same institute. During the past 15 years he has engaged in teaching and coordinating research, and career development of undergraduate students and postgraduate students. Further, he has participated and presented his research at local and international research symposiums. Notably, he is an award winner -Young Colin Relf Award 2008 from the International Forum for Rural Transport Development (IFRTD) and Australian Development Scholarship for a postgraduate research.
He was also a visiting professor in Beijing Jiatong University (2018) and a visiting scholar in Tokyo Institute of Technology (2017).
Mahinda Serves as an editorial member for Maritime Technology and Research , Journal of Maritime Logistics, and also serves as a reviewer for Transport Policy, Maritime Policy and Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Maritime Business Review, Interdisciplinary Research in Transportation Studies, The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, Transportation Research: Part A, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, Case Studies in Transport Policy, and International Journal of Logistics and Trade and Journal of Transport Geography. In addition to being served as an academic, he also contributes to national and international transport development projects as a transport economist.

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  • Editorial and Advisory Board Member - Journal of Maritime Logistics (JML)

 

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  • Editorial Member - Maritime Technology and Research (MTR) Journal

 

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Pollution management at a seaport territory in east coast of peninsular Malaysia: Issues and panaceas

Journal Article
Jeevan, J., Agupo, R. P., Bandara, Y. M., & Park, G. K. (2018)
Pollution management at a seaport territory in east coast of peninsular Malaysia: Issues and panaceas. International Journal of e-Navigation and Maritime Economy, 10, 49-61
Transport sector activities are the major sources of pollutants to the atmosphere and natural environment. Seaports contribute significantly to the cause of pollution in the w...

Factors Affecting the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Reverse Logistics Process

Journal Article
Sureka, G., Bandara, Y. M., & Wickramarachchi, D. (2018)
Factors Affecting the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Reverse Logistics Process. Journal of International Logistics and Trade, 16(2), 74-87. https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2018.16.2.74
The purpose of this research is to identify the current reverse logistics practices adopted by soft drink companies and the prominent factors which can decide the efficiency a...

Assessing Impact of Concessionaires on Sea Ports

Conference Proceeding
Gunasekara, H., & Bandara, Y. (2018)
Assessing Impact of Concessionaires on Sea Ports. In 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)https://doi.org/10.1109/mercon.2018.8421931
Concession has been acknowledged as an important tool for port authorities to retain control of ports by contracts out the management and operation to the private sector for a...

Analysis of Impediments Hindering FMCG Companies from Rail Freight Distribution in Sri Lanka

Conference Proceeding
Kumarasinghe, S. C., & Bandara, Y. M. (2018)
Analysis of Impediments Hindering FMCG Companies from Rail Freight Distribution in Sri Lanka. In 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)https://doi.org/10.1109/mercon.2018.8421924
As rail road multimodal transportation integrates economic, social and environmental advantages, rail freight transportation is considered as a vital and effective distributio...

A methodology for a pricing regime for three-wheeler taxi services

Journal Article
Bandara, Y., Kevitiyagala, P., & De Alwis, N. (2018)
A methodology for a pricing regime for three-wheeler taxi services. Sri Lanka Journal of Economic Research, 5(2), 20-39
The alarming growth of the informal transport sector in Sri Lanka during the past decade has given rise to the need to develop a regulatory framework to ensure the protection ...

An Optimization Strategy for Inter Terminal Transportation (ITT) of Containers: Case of Port of Colombo

Conference Proceeding
Edirisooriya, T., & Bandara, Y. M. (2017)
An Optimization Strategy for Inter Terminal Transportation (ITT) of Containers: Case of Port of Colombo. In Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Inter terminal container transportation (ITT) is a transferring process of containers between two more terminals. This research is related with inter terminal transport (ITT) ...

Measuring the Economic costs of traffic congestion

Conference Proceeding
Jayasooriya, S., & Bandara, Y. (2017)
Measuring the Economic costs of traffic congestion. In 2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)https://doi.org/10.1109/mercon.2017.7980471
The main concern of this research is to examines traffic congestion costs related with the road passenger transportation. With the rapid urbanization, it is evident that comme...

Analysis of strategic pricing in the port sector: The network approach

Journal Article
Nguyen, H., Chin, A., Tongzon, J., & Bandara, M. (2016)
Analysis of strategic pricing in the port sector: The network approach. Maritime Economics and Logistics, 18, 264-281. https://doi.org/10.1057/mel.2015.9
This article demonstrates how interaction between ports in a network can be analysed in two stages. The first stage is the analysis of the price response functions and it exam...

Influential factors in the design of port infrastructure tariffs

Journal Article
Bandara, Y. M., Nguyen, H., & Chen, S. (2016)
Influential factors in the design of port infrastructure tariffs. Maritime Policy and Management, 43(7), 830-842. https://doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2016.1173735
The main aim of this article is to examine the factors influential to the practical process of port infrastructure tariff design. The analysis is based on the survey data of 6...

Non-Price Competition in the Port Sector: A Case Study of Ports in Turkey

Journal Article
Esmer, S., Nguyen, H., Bandara, Y. M., & Yeni, K. (2016)
Non-Price Competition in the Port Sector: A Case Study of Ports in Turkey. Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 32(1), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajsl.2016.03.001
Although the port sector has been facing increasing competition, there is limited research on how ports compete using non-price competition strategies. There are a few studies...

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