David M. Levinson

David Matthew Levinson
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of Maryland, Georgia Institute of Technology
Known forTravel behavior, transportation planning
Scientific career
FieldsTransportation,
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney

David Matthew Levinson (born 1967) is an American civil engineer and transportation analyst, a professor at the University of Sydney since 2017. He formerly held the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the University of Minnesota, from 2006 to 2016.[1] He has authored or co-authored 8 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of transportation.[2] His most widely cited works [3] 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.[4] He is a founder of the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research.[5] In 1995 he was awarded the Charles Tiebout Prize in Regional Science by the Western Regional Science Association,[6] and in 2004, the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award.[7] His travel behaviour research was featured in the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt.

Levinson is the director of the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive and founding editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He is the founding editor of Findings.[8] He was also the chair of streets.mn,[9] a community blog dedicated to transport and land use issues in Minnesota, and WalkSydney,[10] a pedestrian advocacy organisation in Australia.

  1. ^ "Staff Profile".
  2. ^ "Experts@Minnesota, from Scopus". Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  3. ^ Google Scholar Citations
  4. ^ Levinson, David (2008) Density and Dispersion: The Co-Development of Land use and Rail in London. Journal of Economic Geography 8(1) 55-57.
  5. ^ http://WSTLUR.org/about World Society for Transport and Land Use Research
  6. ^ Winners of the Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science
  7. ^ "Past CUTC Award Recipients" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  8. ^ Findings Press.
  9. ^ streets.mn.
  10. ^ WalkSydney.