Urban Transportation and Planning Doctoral Series

Seminars and Series

New Thinking on Transportation and Society Doctoral Research Series

This series provides an informal setting for the nation’s leading scholars, as nominated by their faculty advisors, to present their current dissertation research on cutting-edge transportation planning matters, engaging other doctoral and master’s students, and faculty and alumni in meaningful dialogue.

Spring 2011

4/20: Eric Goldwyn, Columbia University

NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) Group Ride Vehicle pilot program

3/24: Noah McClain New York University

New Thinking on Transportation and Society Doctoral Research Series The Normalization of Anxiety: Work, Organizational Process and Security Practices in the New York Subway

Fall 2010

10/25: Cuz Potter
Columbia University
Boxed In: How Intermodalism Enabled Destructive Interport Competition.
See the presentation and read the full dissertation here

11/18: Camille Fink
UCLA
The Presentation of Self in Everyday [Transit] Life: An Ethnographic Study of Los Angeles Bus Culture.

12/10: Eric Morris
UCLA
Access and Outcomes: Transportation, the Urban Environment, and subjective well-being.

RSVP here

Spring 2010

Lingqian Hu
USC
Urban Spatial Transformation and Job Accessibility: Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis Revisited

Jen Petersen
NYU
Whose Streets? Paving the Right to the City

Gian-Claudia Sciara
UC Berkeley
Planners and the Pork Barrel: Metropolitan Engagement in and Resistance to Congressional Transportation Earmarking

Michael J. Smart
UCLA
Immigrant Enclaves and Travel behavior

Fall 2009

Andrew Mondschein
UCLA
Cities in Mind: Processes and Access to Opportunity

Nicholas Klein
Rutgers University
Private Transit Services in Immigrant Communities

Yang Chen
MIT
Neighborhood Design and the Energy Efficiency of Urban Lifestyle in China: Treating Residence and Mobility as Lifestyle Bundle

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