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Social Sciences and Humanities
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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
77
Citations
28999
World Ranking
451
National Ranking
76

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

David Banister is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions spanning Automotive Engineering, Transportation, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment, as well as Health, Toxicology, and Mutagenesis.

Their main research topics include Urban Transport and Accessibility, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Vehicle Emissions and Performance, Urban Green Space and Health, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis.

Banister has published extensively in several academic venues, frequently contributing to journals such as Built Environment, Energies, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, Energy Research & Social Science, and Global Environmental Change.

Some recent papers by Banister include:

  • Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review (2020), published in Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap": Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990-2018) (2021), published in Global Environmental Change
  • People and their walking environments: An exploratory study of meanings, place and times (2020), published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
  • Literature review papers: the search and selection process (2023), published in Journal of Decision System
  • Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda (2022), published in The Political Quarterly

Banister collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Tim Schwanen, David Bonilla, Eric T.H. Chan, Aaron Percastre Gómez, and Ka Ho Tsoi.

Best Publications

  • The sustainable mobility paradigm

    David Banister

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    James Woodcock;Phil Edwards;Cathryn Tonne;Ben G Armstrong

  • Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the New Century

    David Banister

  • Transport Investment and Economic Development

    D Banister;J Berechman

  • Transport investment and the promotion of economic growth

    David Banister;Yossi Berechman

  • Distributive justice and equity in transportation

    Rafael Henrique Moreas Pereira;Tim Schwanen;David Banister

  • Sustainable development: Our Common Future revisited

    Erling Holden;Kristin Linnerud;David Banister

  • Quality of life for the elderly: the transport dimension

    David Banister;Ann Bowling

  • Cities, mobility and climate change

    David Banister

  • Configurational Modelling of Urban Movement Networks

    A Penn;B Hillier;D Banister;J Xu

  • Let's ask them: a national survey of definitions of quality of life and its enhancement among people aged 65 and over.

    Ann Bowling;Zahava Gabriel;Joanna Dykes;Lee Marriott Dowding

  • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development

    Erling Holden;Kristin Linnerud;David Banister

  • A multidimensional model of the quality of life in older age

    A. Bowling;D. Banister;S. Sutton;O. Evans

  • Sustainable Cities: Transport, Energy, and Urban Form:

    D Banister;S Watson;C Wood

  • European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility

    D. Banister;D. Stead;P. Steen;P. Nijkamp

  • Energy and transport

    James Woodcock;David Banister;Phil Edwards;Andrew M Prentice

  • How to Write a Literature Review Paper

    G.P. van Wee;D Banister

  • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development: Needs, Justice, Limits

    Erling Holden;Kristin Linnerud;David Banister;Valeria Jana Schwanitz

  • Rethinking habits and their role in behaviour change: the case of low-carbon mobility

    Tim Schwanen;David Banister;Jillian Anable

  • Scientific research about climate change mitigation in transport: a critical review

    Tim Schwanen;David Banister;Jillian Anable

  • Health and Climate Change 2 Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    J Woodcock;P Edwards;C Tonne;BG Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic Stead
Dominic Stead Aalto University
Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen University of Oxford
Stephen Sutton
Stephen Sutton University of Cambridge
Phil Edwards
Phil Edwards London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Alistair Woodward
Alistair Woodward University of Auckland
Becky P.Y. Loo
Becky P.Y. Loo University of Hong Kong
Dinesh Mohan
Dinesh Mohan Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sean Beevers
Sean Beevers Imperial College London
Andy Haines
Andy Haines London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Andrew Miles
Andrew Miles University of Toronto

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