Professor Lucy Budd

I am a social scientist engaged in innovative interdisipinary research with an applied transport and aviation focus. I have published widely in the area of airline and airport operations and urban mobility.  I am Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal Research in Transportation Business and Management and I sit on the Editorial Boards of Transport Policy, Journal of Transport Geography, Journal of Air Transport Management, Transportation Planning and Technology and Transport Reviews. I am the Programme Leader for the MSc in Air Transport Management and am currently supervising 6 PhD students.

Air transport, airports, airlines, transport geography, mobility.

Airport Planning and Operations, Airline Marketing and Operations.

• BA (1^st Class Hons) Geography and the Sir William Meyer Essay Prize, Geography Department, University College London, 2002
• MSc Global Transformations, Geography Department Loughborough University, 2003
• PhD, Geography, Loughborough University, 2007
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

MSc Air Transport Management

2019 Best paper award at the International Conference on Connected Transportation Systems and Technologies, New York, January 2019. Masera, C., Imprialou, M., Budd, L. and Morton, C. (2019) Estimating the Traffic Impacts of Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory Systems Using Microsimulation Published in the International Journal of Transport and Vehicle Engineering 13(1) pp22-29.

Member of the UKRI Future Flight Challenge Innovate UK/Sciencewise Public dialogue project board, 2022-23

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

UKRI/ESRC (2022-2023) Embedding disabled passenger needs into the UK’s Advanced Air Mobility ecosystem

Goetz, A., Attard, M., and Budd, L. (2023) The impact of low-cost airlines in Malta, Australasian Transport Research Forum, Perth, Australia, 29 November - 1 December 2023.

Goetz, A., Attard, M., and Budd, L. (2023) Air travel and tourism in Malta: Impacts of low-cost airline introduction EUGEO 2023, Barcelona, 4-7 September 2023.

Moore, P., Deka, L., Amaugo, A., Budd, L., and Ison, S.G. (2023) Bikeshare: A review of the trip determinants related to socio-economic disadvantage, World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2023 Montreal 17-21 July 2023

McCall, Jr, D., Ison, S. and Budd, L. (2023) Sustainable Aviation in the Caribbean: An Assessment and Future Research Direction, Bringing Hospitality, Tourism, Transport and Events Back for GoodconferenceGuildford, University of Surrey, July 2023.

Vulturius, S., Budd, L., and Ison, S.G., (2023) A Study of Commercial Airline Pilots’ Job Satisfaction Pre- and Post COVID-19, TRBAM-23-01128, Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual meeting, Washington D.C. January 2023.

Harley, G., Timmis, A., and Budd, L. (2023) Small Airport Adoption of Environmental Practices: A Managerial Perspective, TRBAM-23-02820, Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual meeting, Washington D.C. January 2023.

Budd, L., Bloor, G. and Ison, S.G. (2022) The impact of COVID-19 related flight reductions on bird prevalence and behaviour at Manchester Airport, UK World Birdstrike Association Europe Conference, London, 23rd June 2022.

Graham, A., Budd, L., and Ison, S.G. (2022) A comparative analysis of UK airport strategy since COVID-19 25th ATRS World Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 3rd-6th July, 2022.

McCall Jr D., Ison, SG. and Budd, L. (2022) The Challenges of Sustainable Aviation in the Caribbean: an assessment and future research direction 25th ATRS World Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 3rd-6th July, 2022.

Mayer, R., Budd, L., and Ison, SG. (2022)Designed for success: An examination of taught postgraduate air transport management curricula in the UK 25th ATRS World Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 3rd-6th July, 2022.

Timmis, A., Ison, S., and Budd, L. (2022) Exploring disruptive air passenger behaviour using open source data: a content analysis of UK newspaper reports 25th ATRS World Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 3rd-6th July, 2022. 

Journal papers

Budd L, Kambari M M, and Ison S (2023) Decarbonising airports: an examination of UK airports’ net zero targets, Transportation Planning and Technology, DOI: 

Harley G, Timmis A and Budd L (2023) Small Airport Adoption of Environmental Practices – A Managerial Perspective Journal of Airport Management 18(1) Winter 2023-24, 1-17.

Attard M, Budd L, Le Pira M and Yen B (2023) Editorial: Introducing a new chapter for the Journal Research in Transportation Business and Management Research in Transportation Business and Management, 100965.

Graham, A., Kruse, W., Budd, L., Kremarik, F., Ison, S.G., (2023) Ageing passenger perceptions of Ground Access Journeys to Airports: A survey of UK residents, Journal of Air Transport Management, Volume 107, March, 102338 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2022.102338.

Flack S, Budd L, Dale S and Ison S (2022) The Social Benefits of the workplace parking levy: a review and future research directionICE-Municipal Engineer https://doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.20.00025

I have undertaken consultancy work for a range of public and private secor clients.

McCall Jr, D.  Sustainable Aviation in the Caribbean. 

Vulturius, S.  Factors affecting the job satisfaction of commercial airline pilots. 

Moore, P. Breaking the cycle of immobility? Evaluating Leicester’s e-bike scheme. 

Kambari, M.  Pathways to achieving net zero at UK airports. 

Beaton, G. Improving staff wellbeing and passenger satisfaction with the airport security screening process.

Charukit, J. (2023-2026) Innovations in airport self-service technologies – the passenger perspective

International PhD Committee Member

Pauwels, J.  Strategische opties voor een duurzame ontwikkeling van regionale luchthavens (Strategies for optimising the efficiency of regional airport real estate) Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

FASS PhD Studentship (funded by the UK Department for Transport)

Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Research in Transportation Business and Management, Elsevier.

Founding co-editor of Contemporary Issues in Air Transport book series (Elsevier).