Transport Economics Matters

David Spurling BSc, PGCE, DGA, FCILT, M.Inst.TA David was a founder of Learning Through Cooperation Ltd and its subsidiary LTC Kenya. He wrote 21 textbooks on a range of subjects including Transport, Economics, Business, Sociology, Tourism and Accounts. He also published a book on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway. He taught people from more than fifty countries at a range of schools and colleges. He was an Associate Professor in Transport Economics at what is now Birmingham City University. In addition, David founded a college in Nairobi, Kenya, to provide educational assistance to a developing country, and was a member of the Nigerian Business Examinations Council. He was an examiner for the Association of Business Managers and Administrators, the Chartered Institute of Transport, and Edexcel. David was a Quaker and this influenced his views on social issues. He devised a survey on the single homeless. He regarded climate change as one of the major issues facing the world today. He was a Parliamentary candidate for Meriden and a councillor in both Essex and Kent. He was also a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.