Anthony Perl, Ph.D. is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary where he teaches public policy and Canadian government. He received an undergraduate honours degree in Government from Harvard University, and MA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto.
Perl's research has crossed disciplinary and national boundaries to explore the organizational and political dynamics that influence transportation system performance and its implications for sustainable development. His research has been widely published in scholarly journals such as Transportation Research, Transportation Quarterly, World Transport Policy and Practice, Journal of Air Transport Management, Journal of Public Policy, Canadian Public Policy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Canadian Journal of Political Science and Scientific American. He has received awards for outstanding papers presented at the World Conference on Transport Research in 1992 and the Canadian Transportation Research Forum in 2001.
He has also produced three books. The Politics of Improving Urban Air Quality, which he co-edited and co-authored was published in 1999 by Edward Elgar, U.K New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2001. In 2003, the University of British Columbia Press released The Integrity Gap: Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions, co-authored and co-edited by Perl.
Perl has advised governments in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States on transportation and environmental research and policy development. He serves on two committees of the U.S. Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research Council. He also served on the Selection Committee of Transport Canada's Urban Transportation Showcase Program. Perl is currently Vice-Chair of Canada's Centre for Sustainable Transportation.
Anthony Perl is married and lives in a traffic-calmed neighbourhood of Calgary.