Julian Allen is a Research Fellow at the Transport Studies Group, University of Westminster. His major research interests are urban freight transport, the impact of manufacturing and retailing techniques on logistics and transportation systems, the relationship between policy measures and freight transport operations, and the market structure of the freight transport industry. He has done many projects in these areas and has widely published the results.
Grzegorz Augustyniak was a faculty member of the Department of Logistics at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and held visiting positions at Carleton University, University of Calgary, University of Minnesota and the University of British Columbia. He is now an assistant professor in the Department of Management Theory at SGH and is also coordinator of the student exchange programme within the Community of European Management Schools, and Deputy Director of the Polish- Japanese Management Center. He has been a consultant to many companies in manufacturing and distribution, and is currently working on improv- ing productivity and quality in Poland.
Colin Bamford is Professor of Transport and Logistics at the University of Huddersfield. His interest in transport issues originated in the early 1970s when he was one of Ken Gwilliam’s researchers at the University of Leeds. At Huddersfield he has been responsible for the development of a pioneering suite of undergraduate courses in transport and logistics management. More recently he has been involved in setting up a new