Phill Wheat

Professor Phill Wheat is a transport economist and applied econometrician whose primary area of interest is the analysis of transport costs and how these are influenced by the competitive, market structure and institutional factors within transport markets. His work is a mixture of applied econometric analysis, development of econometric performance measurement techniques and regulatory economics. Phill's work includes collaborative theoretical research in econometrics with William Greene of New York University examining issues in econometric performance models.

He has wide ranging experience of cost and performance analysis in the rail sector including important studies for the Office of Rail Regulation and Department for Transport.

He is also actively developing new economic research avenues in Local and Strategic Highways. Professor Wheat is Co-founder of the CQC Efficiency Network – A collaborative network of highways departments of Local Authorities in Britain to enable the identification of best practice in highway maintenance.