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April 2006
CTS Faculty Scholar co-authors book
David Levinson
Associate Professor David Levinson of the Department of Civil Engineering (CE) is the co-author with William Garrison of The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment. The 460-page book explores the genesis of transportation systems; the roles that policy plays as systems are planned, innovated, deployed, and reach maturity; and how policies might be improved.
“Two of the most original thinkers in transportation—Garrison and Levinson—have joined forces to create a truly unique book,” writes reviewer Brian Taylor. “While most scholarship examines transportation problems from distinct disciplinary lenses, these two self-proclaimed ‘transportationists’ argue in 28 wide-ranging chapters for a new, transportation-centered disciplinary lens through which economic, political, and technological issues can be viewed in a very different light.” Taylor, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, was the 2003 CTS Fall Luncheon speaker.
Garrison, a professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California Berkeley, began using “the transportation experience” several decades ago as an organizing theme in his courses. The book emerged from notes Garrison developed for two courses, one of which was taken by Levinson as a graduate student. Levinson has drawn from these notes in his own teaching career and used an earlier version of the book as the course text in CE 5212: Urban Transportation Planning at the University of Minnesota.
The book is published by Oxford University Press and is available from major booksellers.