Dr Daniel Hörcher

Summary

Daniel Hörcher is postdoctoral research associate at the Transport Strategy Centre (TSC) within the Centre for Transport Studies (CTS) at Imperial College London.

My research interests are centred around three themes.

1. The economics of public transport supply. Microeconomic models of tariff structures and capacity provision, and optimisation; societal objectives with financial, equity-oriented, political constraints, and competition between governments. Understanding and quantifying the external social cost of public transport use in crowding. 
2. Transport service provision in (spatial) general equilibrium. Understanding and quantifying wider economic impacts beyond traditional transport appraisal. Optimal transport provision under agglomeration economies and dynamic urban spatial structure. Transport appraisal in quantitative spatial models.
3. Statistical analysis of large-scale automated transport data. Revealed preference discrete choice models for measuring user preferences. Causal inference methods for ex-post evaluation of interventions in the multimodal transport system.

My publication track record includes 21 peer-reviewed articles published in leading journals of transport research, spatial economics, and statistics.  

In 2020, I joined the editorial team of the Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing (Edward Elgar Publishing), a major collection of 25 chapters on transport economics to be published by May 2023.

I am Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP).  Since 2022, I am member of the Executive and Scientific Committees of the International Transportation Economics Association.

In recent years I had the chance to provide advice on transport policy (transport appraisal and fares policy) for public institutions in the UK, Australia and Hungary, and I contributed to policy papers commissioned by the International Transport Forum at the OECD, and the International Growth Centre.

I give lectures and tutorial sessions in the undergraduate civil engineering course Transport Demand and Economics (CIVE97017), and I am assistant supervisor of PhD candidates Tobie Cusson and Surabhi Ojha as well as undergraduate and MSc students.

Background

Daniel graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BSc in Transport Engineering, supervisor: Professor Katalin Tánczos) and VU University Amsterdam (MSc in Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics, supervisor: Professor Piet Rietveld). He joined Imperial College in August 2014 as a PhD candidate supervised by Professor Dan Graham and sponsored by the TSC, and successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in October 2017. Daniel has a second affiliation with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

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