Professor John Hibbs OBE PhD FCILT FinstTA is Emeritus Professor of Transport Management, Birmingham City University. He has published widely on the economics, marketing and management of transport, and he is an internationally recognised authority on the regulation of all forms of transport. After a career in management in the bus and coach industry and in British Rail, where he was Market Research Officer at the Eastern Region Headquarters, he moved to teaching and consultancy, and has advised government departments in Australia, the Czech Republic, Chile, Spain And Tanzania, as well as the United Kingdom.