David M. Levinson

David Matthew Levinson
Born 1967
Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality American
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley, University of Maryland, Georgia Institute of Technology
Known for Travel behavior, Transportation planning
Scientific career
Fields Transportation,

David Matthew Levinson (born 1967) is an American civil engineer and transportation analyst, currently a professor at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation. He has authored or co-authored 4 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of transportation.[1] His most widely cited works[2] are on transportation accessibility and on the travel time budget. He has developed models of the co-evolution of transport and land use systems, demonstrating mutual causality empirically.[3] He is a founder of the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research.[4] In 1995 he was awarded the Charles Tiebout Prize in Regional Science by the Western Regional Science Association,[5] and in 2004, the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award.[6] His travel behaviour research was featured in the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt.

Levinson is the director of the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive and editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He was also the chair of streets.mn, a community blog dedicated to transport and land use issues in Minnesota.

Books

  • Financing Transportation Networks , Edward Elgar Publishers, ISBN 1-8406-4594-6, 2002
  • The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment (with William Garrison), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517250-7, 2005
  • Planning for Place and Plexus (with Kevin Krizek), Routledge, ISBN 978-0415774918, 2008
  • Evolving Transportation Networks (with Feng Xie), Springer ISBN 978-1441998033, 2011

Important papers

References

  1. ↑ Experts@Minnesota, from Scopus
  2. ↑ Google Scholar Citations
  3. ↑ Levinson, David (2008) Density and Dispersion: The Co-Development of Land use and Rail in London. ``Journal of Economic Geography 8(1) 55-57.
  4. ↑ http://WSTLUR.org/about World Society for Transport and Land Use Research
  5. ↑ Winners of the Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science
  6. ↑ Past CUTC Award Recipients
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