Levinson, David M. 1967-

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LEVINSON, David M. 1967-

(David Matthew Levinson)

PERSONAL: Born April 16, 1967, in Baltimore, MD; son of Lawrence (a consultant) and Roslyn (an artist) Levinson; married Trinh Carpenter (an instructor), June, 2002. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology, B.C.E., 1988; University of Maryland, M.S., 1991; University of California Berkeley, Ph.D., 1998. Hobbies and other interests: Quizbowl.

ADDRESSES: Home—109 Warwick St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55414. Office—Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 500 Pillsbury Dr. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail—levin031@umn.edu.

CAREER: Maryland National Park and Planning Commission, Silver Spring, transportation planner, 1989–94; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, assistant professor of civil engineering, 1999–.

MEMBER: Regional Science Association International, Institute of Transportation Engineers, American Institute of Certified Planners, Transportation Research Board, Western Regional Science Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Tiebout Prize, Western Regional Science Association; Career Award, National Science Foundation, 2003, for "The Evolution of Transportation Networks."

WRITINGS:

Financing Transportation Networks, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2002.

(Editor, with David Gillen) Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS: Making the Business Case for ITS Investments, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 2004.

(With William L. Garrison) The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2004.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on modeling network growth.

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