Projects

Access to opportunities in practice

Alongside thought leaders at SSTI and Smart Growth America, I work with transportation agencies across the U.S. to measure access to opportunities and implement accessibility metrics in decision-making applications such as transportation planning and project prioritization.

Big data for travel studies

I led SSTI’s work testing new data from mobile devices for travel studies in Virginia and California. Our work with Michael Baker International and the Virginia Department of Transportation informed the development of StreetLight Data’s new congestion analysis tool.

Climate impact assessments

I have worked on developing models for estimating the impacts of transportation and land use policies on emissions for the Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan, the Dane County Climate Action Plan in Wisconsin, and for Transcending Oil: Hawaii's Path to a Clean Energy Economy.

Parking and urban impacts

For more than a decade, I have studied parking supply, parking demand, and the role of parking policy in urban transportation, including its effects on the built environment, travel behavior, and the economy. My recent work includes a chapter in Parking and the City by Donald Shoup.

The Innovative DOT handbook

I led the third update of The Innovative DOT, published by SSTI and Smart Growth America in 2015. I also introduced a new section focused on flexible design policies and standards.

Walkable design workshops

I worked with the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in 2012 to organize a series of street design workshops for transportation professionals in Illinois. The workshops focused on ITE’s recommended practice, Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares. Read more about the event at Public Square.

Transportation sustainability

I worked with an interdisciplinary research team at UConn to develop methods for evaluating transportation sustainability, accounting for environmental, social, and economic impacts from transportation. This work was published in several journals and highlighted in UConn Today.

Nantucket transit improvements

I worked in 2009 with ReMain Nantucket and UConn’s Center for Transportation and Livable Systems (then CTUP) to administer more than 700 surveys and recommend transit improvements in Nantucket. The project, outlined in a white paper, led to rebranding, better information sharing, and other changes.

Space syntax for bicycle planning

Space syntax is an architectural tool developed at University College London to analyze different spatial configurations and model how space is used. For my master’s thesis, I published a study using space syntax to model bike volumes.