David M. Levinson
David Matthew Levinson is an American civil engineer and transportation analyst, a professor at the University of Sydney since 2017. He formerly held the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the University of Minnesota, 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.
Levinson is the director of the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive and founding editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He is the founding editor of . He was also the chair of streets.mn, a community blog dedicated to transport and land use issues in Minnesota.Books
- Financing Transportation Networks, Edward Elgar Publishers, , 2002
- The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment, Oxford University Press, , 2005
- Planning for Place and Plexus, Routledge,, 2008
- Evolving Transportation Networks, Springer, 2011
- , Network Design Lab,, 2017
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Important papers
- Levinson, David and Ajay Kumar . Journal of the American Planning Association, Summer 1994 60:3 319-332.
- Levinson, David . Journal of Transport Geography 6:1 11-21.
- Yerra, Bhanu and David Levinson . Annals of Regional Science 39 pp. 541–553.
- Levinson, David . ``Transportation Research part A'' Volume 39, Issues 7-9, August–November 2005, Pages 691-704.
