Chester Harvey is the Director of the Transportation Policy Research Group at the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, College Park. He oversees a portfolio of research for the Maryland Department of Transportation that examines opportunities to improve social equity and reduce climate impacts within the state’s transportation systems. He is also a PhD Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research bridges urban design and transportation to investigate how the built environments influence the psychology and behavior of transportation users, particularly pedestrians and bicyclists. Chester has expertise in spatial data science and behavioral modeling, and has worked professionally as a planner and data scientist with firms including WSP and Alta Planning and Design. He has published in both academic and professional forums, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, Environmental and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, and the Transportation Research Record. He also actively contributes to open source urban analytic software.