Robin Lindsey
University of Alberta, Canada

Robin Lindsey earned a B.A. in economics and physics from Queen’s, an M.A. in economics from Queen’s and a PhD in economics from Princeton. Since 1982 he has been employed at the Department of Economics, University of Alberta. His academic specialties are transportation economics and industrial organization. His current research interests in transportation include traffic congestion, congestion pricing, financing of transportation infrastructure and advanced traveler information systems. He is editor with André de Palma and Stef Proost of Investment and the Use of Tax and Toll Revenues in the Transport Sector, forthcoming in Elsevier’s Research in Transportation Economics series. Part I of the book covers theoretical aspects of funding such as earmarking and public private partnerships, and Part II describes five case studies of revenue use in European countries.

Lindsey has been a visitor at University of British Columbia, University of California at Irvine, Free University of Amsterdam, Université de Cergy- Pontoise and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is on the editorial boards of Papers in Regional Science and Transportation Research Part B. In 2001-2002 he was awarded a McCalla Professorship at the University of Alberta.

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