Introduction
David Matthew Levinson (born 1967) is an American civil engineer and transportation analyst, currently a professor at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation. He has authored or co-authored 4 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 100 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 behavior research was featured in the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt.
Levinson is the director of the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive and editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He is also the chair of streets.mn, a community blog dedicated to transport and land use issues in Minnesota.
Books by Levinson
- Financing Transportation Networks , Edward Elgar Publishers, ISBN 1-8406-4594-6, 2002
- The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment (with William Garrison), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517250-7, 2005
- Planning for Place and Plexus (with Kevin Krizek), Routledge, ISBN 978-0415774918, 2008
- Evolving Transportation Networks (with Feng Xie), Springer ISBN 978-1441998033, 2011
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.