Daniel Polo joined the Rudin Center as a visiting scholar for the 2009-10 academic year. His work focuses on environmental and social inequality issues related to transportation analysis and planning, with a special interest in improving limited methodologies that tend to underscore such topics when assessing transportation projects.
Prior to joining Rudin, he served as technical advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Environment at the City Council of Barcelona. Formerly he worked at the Barcelona Institute for Regional and Metropolitan Studies (IERMB) from 2004 to 2007, where he developed 16 projects on transportation as head of the Mobility Department. Some outstanding accomplishments of that period are a methodological guide for developing local mobility plans, a methodological scheme for the assessment of transport solutions for commuting, a mobility plan for the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and management of several surveys on mobility in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
He was also a member of the Mobility, Transport and Territory Studies Group (GEMOTT) at UAB from 2004 to 2008, where he worked on five projects mostly focusing on citizen perceptions on a range of transportation issues, such as funding schemes for mass transit and parking regulations. Other previous positions include associate lecturer at the UAB Departments of Geography and Sociology and research assistant at the UAB Institute of Environmental Science and Technology.
He holds an MS in Transport Planning and Management, an MS in Environmental Intervention, and a degree in Environmental Science. He has conducted additional graduate studies in sociology.
