RAND Expert Biography
Martin Wachs
Director, Transportation, Space, and Technology Program, RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment
Expertise
Professional ethics, transportation and aging, transportation finance, transportation and land use, transportation and the environment, urban transportation planning
Previous Positions
Professor, City and Regional Planning, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Professor and Chairman, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles; Chairman, Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board
Education
Ph.D. and M.S. in urban and regional planning, Northwestern University; B.S. in civil engineering, City University of New York
Publications of Interest
Earmarking in the U.S. Department of Transportation Research Programs, Ann M. Brach et al., Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, July 2005
"Improving Efficiency and Equity in Transportation Finance," in Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes, eds., Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform, The Brookings Institution Press, 2005
"Reflections on the Planning Process," in Susan Hanson and Genevieve Giuliano, eds., The Geography of Urban Transportation (3rd ed.), Guilford Publishing Company, 2004
"Then and Now: The Evolution of Transport Pricing and Where We Are Today," International Perspectives on Road Pricing: Report of the Committee for the International Symposium on Road Pricing, Key Biscayne, Florida, November 19-22, 2003
Local Transportation Sales Taxes: California's Experiment in Transportation Finance, Amber Crabbe et al., California Policy Research Center, University of California, 2002
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: CNN; KCRW; KFI; KQED; Los Angeles Times; San Diego Union-Tribune; San Francisco Chronicle
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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