David Matthew Levinson (born 1967) is an American

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and

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analyst, a professor at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

since 2017. He formerly held the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, from 2006 to 2016. He has authored or co-authored 8 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of transportation. His most widely cited works are on transportation accessibility and on the travel time budget. He has developed models of the co-evolution of transport and land use systems, demonstrating mutual causality empirically. He is a founder of the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research. In 1995 he was awarded the Charles Tiebout Prize in Regional Science by the Western Regional Science Association, and in 2004, the CUTC- ARTBA New Faculty Award. His travel behaviour research was featured in the book ''Traffic'' by

Tom Vanderbilt Tom Vanderbilt (born 1968) is an American journalist, blogger, and author of the best-selling book, ''Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)''. His traffic book was published on November 13 2009, made in various parts of ...

. Levinson is the director of the

Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive The U.S. Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive is a project to store, preserve, and make publicly available, via the internet, travel surveys conducted by metropolitan areas, states and localities. As of 2007, the archive held 58 surveys comprising 2 ...

and founding editor of the

Journal of Transport and Land Use The ''Journal of Transport and Land Use'' is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal covering the interaction of transport and land use that was established in 2008. As of August 2011, it is the official journal of the World Society for Tr ...

. He is the founding editor of ''Findings''. He was also the chair of ''streets.mn'', a community blog dedicated to transport and land use issues in Minnesota, and ''WalkSydney'',WalkSydney
a pedestrian advocacy organisation in Australia.

Books

* ''Financing Transportation Networks'' , Edward Elgar Publishers, , 2002 * ''The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment'' (with William Garrison), Oxford University Press, , 2005 * ''Planning for Place and Plexus'' (with Kevin Krizek), Routledge, , 2008 * ''Evolving Transportation Networks'' (with Feng Xie), Springer , 2011 *
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Economy
(3rd edition)'' (with Kevin Krizek), Network Design Lab, , 2017 *
Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport
', Network Design Lab, , 2017 *
Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers Transport Engineering for Planners
' (with Wes Marshall,

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), Network Design Lab, , 2017 *
Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Institutions
' (with David King), Network Design Lab, , 2019 *
The 30-Minute City: Designing for Access
' , Network Design Lab, , 2019

Important papers

* Levinson, David and Ajay Kumar (1994
The Rational Locator: Why Travel Times Have Remained Stable
''Journal of the American Planning Association'', Summer 1994 60:3 319–332. * Levinson, David (1998
Accessibility and the Journey to Work
''Journal of Transport Geography'' 6:1 11–21. * Yerra, Bhanu and David Levinson (2005
The Emergence of Hierarchy in Transportation Networks
''Annals of Regional Science'' 39(3) pp. 541–553. * Levinson, David (2005
Micro-foundations of Congestion and Pricing: A Game Theory Perspective
''Transportation Research part A'' Volume 39, Issues 7–9, August–November 2005, Pages 691–704.

References

External links

David Levinson's research group website

David Levinson's blog
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