I’m an assistant professor in the Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning at The University of Texas at Austin. My work critically engages with the practice of transportation planning with the goal of achieving progress towards equity and sustainability. To this end I develop innovative methods for analyzing the performance of integrated transportation-land use systems in the areas of civil rights, environmental justice, public health, and climate change. This work is undergirded by my training in civil engineering, transportation planning, and history.

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Some recent work

• Toward mobility justice: Linking transportation and education equity in the context of school choice
• From transportation equity to transportation justice: Within, through, and beyond the state
• The view from the top of Arnstein’s ladder: Participatory budgeting and the promise of community control (appears in the Journal of the American Planning Association’s special issue on “50 Years Since Arnstein’s Ladder”) [pre-publication version available here.]
• Modeling health equity in active transportation planning
• “Pray for transit”: Seeking transportation justice in Metropolitan Atlanta
• Assessing public transit service equity using route-level accessibility measures and public data
• Transportation and Environmental Justice: History and Emerging Practice
• Building Equitable Student Transit (BEST)
• Achieving Transportation Equity: Meaningful Public Involvement to Meet the Needs of Underserved Communities
• Opportunity Deferred: Race, Transportation, and the Future of Metropolitan Atlanta
• We Can Get there from Here: New Perspectives on Transportation Equity
• Planning for Transportation Equity in Small Regions: Towards Meaningful Performance Assessment