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Transportation & Land Use

Faculty: Fred Ducca, Sevgi Erdogon, Marie Howland, Hiroyuki Iseki, Gerrit Knaap, Chao Liu

Faculty, research associates, and students present their work at both academic and professional conferences such as the Transportation Research Board annual meeting and APA National Planning Conference. Their work is published in prestigious academic journals including the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Transportation Research: Policy and Practice, Journal of Public Transportation, and Urban Affairs Review.

FACULTY RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION:

Regional Strategies for Transportation Funding and Coordination
Planning Professor Hiroyuki Iseki researches funding and coordination strategies employed by local governments and transit agencies in the US to provide for sufficient regional public transportation. A 2011 report that used New Orleans as a case study identifies a set of indices with which to evaluate the regional coordination of transit service and the barriers that need to be resolved for regional transit coordination to be successful. For this and other research reports please follow the links below:

Transportation Policy Research Group at the National Center for Smart Growth

Dr. Fred Ducca is actively involved in developing more effective transportation and traffic modeling systems for the State of Maryland and the Federal Highway Administration. Most recently his work has focused on Mega-regions and the particular planning challenges they represent. The following link highlights a 2012 analysis of the Chesapeake Mega-region:

FACULTY RESEARCH IN LAND USE:

Evaluating Land Use Changes in Maryland and the Demand for Industrial Properties
Planning Professor Marie Howland works to design new models for more efficiently identifying and predicting land use change from a rural to urban use. Maryland's growing population, rapid urbanization and the dominant suburban economy demand creative approaches to new market challenges and emerging trends in land use. Follow the links below to review a selection of her recent reports and articles:

Smart Growth in the State of Maryland
Work by Gerrit Knaap, Planning Professor and Director of the National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG), looks at the effectiveness of state Smart Growth policies. Maryland has positioned itself as a national leader in statewide planning with the recently adopted PlanMaryland reaffirming a state commitment to an incentive-based development system of Priority Funding Areas (PFAs). Knaap's work looks at the challenges of developing and managing growth within PFAs, as well as modeling growth and opportunity in the Baltimore-Washington region. The following articles highlight a sample of his recent work:

RECENT STUDENT WORK:

University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation National Center for Smart Growth