David Hensher, PhD

David Hensher, PhD, is Professor of Management and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS). In January 2023, David was appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (OA).

David has numerous Australian and International awards including a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), Recipient of the 2009 International Association of Travel Behaviour Research Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal the 2009 Bus NSW Outstanding Contribution to Industry Award and the 2019 John Shaw Medal which honours an industry champion who has made a lasting contribution to Australia’s roads.

In 2021 an annual prize was established and named in honour of David for best paper in transport demand modelling at the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF).  A Director of Volvo Educational and Research Foundation (VREF) Centre of Excellence in Bus Rapid Transit (2010 onwards), Emeritus Member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel 2007-2010 (Chaired by Minister of Transport), Honorary Fellow Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) Academy, and Co-Founder of The International Conference in Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (the Thredbo Series http://www.thredbo-conference-series.org/), now in its 32nd year.

He has published over 750 papers in the leading international transport and economics journals as well as 17 books and is Australia’s most cited transport academic. David has over 73,500 citations of his contributions in Google Scholar.