Author: David M Levinson
Prof. David Levinson teaches at the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, where he leads the Network Design Lab and the Transport Engineering group. He is an honorary affiliate of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, where he is also a member of the Board of Advice. He also serves as an adjunct faculty in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where from 1999 to 2016, he served on the faculty. He was Managing Director of the Accessibility Observatory, and directed the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (NEXUS) research group. He held the Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation (2006-2016). He also served on the graduate faculty of the Applied Economics and Urban and Regional Planning programs at the University of Minnesota. In academic year 2006-2007 he was a visiting academic at Imperial College in London.
In January 2005 he was awarded the CUTC/ARTBA New Faculty Award. He earned a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. His dissertation “On Whom the Toll Falls“, argues that local decision making about managing and financing roads will most likely lead to direct road pricing, which will allow the efficient allocation of scarce road resources (and thus reduce congestion). He has also 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 and land-use models for Montgomery County, Maryland. He then applied those models for multimodal network planning and growth management.
Levinson has authored or edited several books, including
Elements of Access,
Spontaneous Access,
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access,
The Transportation Experience, and
Metropolitan Transport and Land Use: Planning for Place and Plexus,
as well as numerous peer reviewed articles. He is the editor of the Transport Findings.
He advises Coord, a unit of Sidewalk Labs.
Lines of Desire
Kerb Ramps
Overgrowth: Thinking about 3-Dimensional Pedestrian Paths
Disconnected
Don’t Fence Me In
Whose turn? The strange case of Golden Grove Street and Darlington Road
Focusing not on EyeSight, but on the problem and solutions before us.
What can we do about drink (drunk) drivers
Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first
Submission – Alexandria to Moore Park Connector
Why drivers should support policy that favours walking
A WalkSydney Word Cloud
The Brown Skies of Sydney
`Save the Trees’ on Lawson Street, Redfern
Inaugural Great West Walk Wianamatta Regional Park
WalkSydney’s List of Aims
Submission: Redfern Station Southern Concourse
Submission: Connected Liverpool 2050: Draft Local Strategic Planning Statement: A Land Use Vision to 2050.
