Brian Taylor

Brian D. Taylor, PhD, FAICP is a Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner during the winter of 2026.  He is a Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy in the Luskin School of Public Affairs and a Research Fellow in the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA.  Professor Taylor studies travel behavior and transportation equity, finance, history, and politics.  His recent research examines post-pandemic work and travel behavior, including trends in staying home and going out, working from home, commuting, and public transit use.  He also studies the politics and equity of transportation pricing and finance, including fuel taxes, local option sales taxes for transportation, road pricing, and public transit fare policy; his book on American street and highway finance, The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities, was published in 2023 by Oxford University Press.  At UCLA Professor Taylor teaches courses on transportation, land use, and urban form; public transit and shared mobility; and transportation economics, finance, and policy.