CV Prof. Abigail Bristow BSc(econ), MA, PhD, FRSA, FIOA

Prof. Abigail Bristow is Professor of Transport Studies at Loughborough University. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics and a Trustee of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership. Her main research interests are the externalities generated by transport systems particularly noise and carbon emissions. Research on carbon emission reduction includes: studies exploring ways of achieving significant reductions in passenger transport emissions by 2050 and freight transport emissions in London by 2050; transport in the hydrogen economy; cost effective carbon mitigation and the potential role of personal carbon trading in delivering emissions reductions.

Her work on the valuation of noise nuisance has been evolving over a 15 year period. Research has involved the valuation of road traffic nuisance in Edinburgh, Kunming and Lisbon and aircraft noise nuisance in Athens, Bucharest, Lyon and Manchester. These studies all involved the use of stated choice approaches, still a comparatively rare technique in this context. Innovative approaches have been developed including a priority ranking approach applied to aircraft noise valuation.

Professor Bristow leads the EPSRC funded “Noise Futures Network” which brings together academics from a wide range of disciplines, experts from industry and policy makers to explore aspects of positive sound quality and soundscape design rather than focusing on the negative that is noise.