Integrating Sustainability into the Transportation Planning Process (2005) / Chapter Skim
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His research interests include analysis of policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, the development of theory and methods for measuring the sustainability of transportation systems, the modeling of energy demand, economic analysis of petroleum dependence, and the modeling of market responses to advanced transportation technologies and alternative fuels.
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He is the author or coauthor of five books and the principal author of more than 150 research papers and reports. His current research interests are in the areas of sustainable transportation, indicators of sustainability, environmental impacts of transport, state and regional flow modeling, the use of network autocorrelation analysis for examining motor vehicle accidents, and full-cost analysis of alternative modes.
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On retiring as a municipal politician, he became the first president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, a position he held from 1991 to 1993, and has worked as an independent consultant since then. Major reports published during the past 2 years include Electrifying Hong Kong: Making Transport Sustainable for Civic Exchange; Soft Measures and Transport Behaviour for Umweltbundesamt, the German Federal Environment Agency, and OECD; Energy and Smart Growth for the Neptis Foundation and the government of Ontario; Policy Instruments for Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Transport for OECD; and Sustainable Transportation Performance Indicators for CST (supported by four departments of the government of Canada)
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He is the recipient of a 1996 Environmental Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the United States to study European approaches to full-cost accounting of transportation impacts. From 1991 to 1992 he was Director of the Urban Planning Section of the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT)
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Environmental Protection Agency and 2 years as an urban planner in the Peace Corps in Honduras. He earned an undergraduate degree in engineering and urban planning from Cornell University.
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