Rate My Professor David Levinson

Levinson's research spans transport engineering and planning, policy, economics, geography, and the intersection of transport and land use, with emphasis on transport-land use interactions, accessibility, transport network evolution, traffic programming, and the societal impacts of emerging technologies like electric and autonomous vehicles. He has authored ten books, including The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment (2005), Planning for Place and Plexus (2008), Elements of Access (2017), The 30-Minute City: Designing for Access (2019), and A Political Economy of Access (2019), as well as over 100 peer-reviewed articles. Notable publications include "Accessibility and the journey to work" (1998) and "Value of travel time reliability: A review of current evidence" (2012). His contributions have been recognized with the CUTC/ARTBA New Faculty Award (2005) and the 1995 Tiebout Prize in Regional Science. Levinson is the founding editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use and Findings Press, and previously directed the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (NEXUS) research group and the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota.