Background
Dr. David Levinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (NEXUS) research group. In academic year 2006-2007 he will be a visiting academic at Imperial College in London. He currently holds the Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering.
In January 2005 he was awarded the CUTC/ARTBA New Faculty Award. He earned a Ph.D in Transportation
Engineering at U.C.
Berkeley in 1998. His
dissertation "On
Whom the Toll Falls", argues that local decision making about
managing and financing roads will be more likely to lead to direct
road pricing, which will allow the efficient allocation of scarce
road resources (and thus reduce congestion). He has conducted research
into travel behavior.
He received the 1995 Tiebout
Prize in Regional Science for the paper "Location, Relocation,
and the Journey to Work". From
1989 to 1994, he worked as a transportation planner, developing integrated
transportation - land use models used in Montgomery County, Maryland
and applying those models for multimodal network planning and for
growth management.
Books
| Financing Transportation Networks, published by Edward Elgar (May 2002) | Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS, published by Kluwer (April 2004) | The Transportation Experience, published by Oxford University Press (2005) | Access to Destinations, published by Elsevier (2005) |
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