My primary research and teaching interests are transportation planning and transportation as a public policy lever. Courses I teach approach transportation as a means for fostering economic development, social equity, and sustainable urban development. My research focuses on transportation investment including effects on the location of economic activity, and pricing of environmental, accident, noise, and infrastructure impacts. In the Planning Program core I teach a methods course that acquaints students with population estimation and projection, survey design and analysis, time-series analysis, and economic base analysis.
Assignments are policy memoranda based on practical application of planning methods.
We place emphasis on integrating methods into the planning process and effectively communicating results to citizens and decision makers. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Planning Program, I am director of the University of Iowa Public Policy Center .