Productivity and performance in the British rail freight industry since privatisation.
Presentation / Conference
Cowie, J. (2010, July)
Productivity and performance in the British rail freight industry since privatisation. Paper presented at World Association of Transportation Research (WCTR),, Lisbon
This paper briefly outlines the main changes brought about by the Railways Act 1993 with regard to the rail freight sector and then examines development of the sector since th...
Performance, profit and consumer sovereignty in the English deregulated bus market
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2014)
Performance, profit and consumer sovereignty in the English deregulated bus market. Research in Transportation Economics, 48, 255-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2014.09.049
The pure free market will theoretically result in economic efficiency being achieved. At the heart of this proposition is the idea of consumer sovereignty, where producers tha...
Performance, profit and consumer sovereignty in a deregulated bus market.
Presentation / Conference
Cowie, J. (2013, September)
Performance, profit and consumer sovereignty in a deregulated bus market. Paper presented at 13th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo 13), St Anne's College, University of Oxford
The cost of remote transport services in the single European market — The case of the Scottish Western Isles ferries
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2012)
The cost of remote transport services in the single European market — The case of the Scottish Western Isles ferries. Research in Transportation Business and Management, 4, 90-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2012.06.014
This paper concerns the reform of ferry services to the islands and peninsulas off the west coast of Scotland (known collectively as the Clyde and Hebrides ferry services), an...
Britain’s railways were nationalised 70 years ago – let’s not do it again
Other
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...
The bus industry in Scotland – just a bunch of profiteering opportunists?
Presentation / Conference
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...
Bus Franchising in English and Scottish regions – viable solution or unfeasible instrument?
Journal Article
Villa i Aguilar, X., Rye, T., McTigue, C., & Cowie, J. (2022)
Bus Franchising in English and Scottish regions – viable solution or unfeasible instrument?. Transport Policy, 120, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.02.011
Much research surrounds the move from publicly owned and operated bus markets to publicly controlled and privately operated markets, or in the case of Great Britain, a fully d...
Cycle Logistics: Sustaining the Last Mile
Book Chapter
Cowie, J., & Fisken, K. (2023)
Cycle Logistics: Sustaining the Last Mile. In J. Monios, L. Budd, & S. Ison (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics (59-71). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003241478-7
This chapter defines cycle logistics in terms of a formal specification, the characteristics of the main types of vehicles used and operating ranges. It then considers the mai...
Subsidy and productivity in the privatised British passenger railway.
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2002)
Subsidy and productivity in the privatised British passenger railway. Economic issues. 7, 25-38. ISSN 1363-7029
This paper gives an overview of subsidy reductions in the privatised passenger rail industry in Britain before focusing on productivity performance across the first four years...
Advanced Practice Physiotherapists and the implementation of the JIGSAW-E model for the management of osteoarthritis in Scottish primary care settings: a qualitative case study
Journal Article
Frost, H., Tooman, T., Cowie, J., Gillespie, N., Ackerman, P., Krievs, E., & Dziedzic, K. (2022)
Advanced Practice Physiotherapists and the implementation of the JIGSAW-E model for the management of osteoarthritis in Scottish primary care settings: a qualitative case study. Physiotherapy, 117, 81-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2022.08.007
Objective
To explore the acceptability, barriers and enablers of NICE guidelines for osteoarthritis in the Scottish primary care setting using the Joint Implementation of Guid...