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Jonathan Levine Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Michigan Urban and Regional Planning
2208A Art and Architecture Building
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2069
Office: (734) 763-0039
Taubman College faculty profile
Professional Summary
Professional Summary
My research and teaching focus on the reform of transportation and land-use policy, realms have been largely planned and evaluated through analysis of mobility, or the ease of movement of people and vehicles. This approach would make sense if movement per se were the purpose of transportation. Because transportation’s fundamental purpose is access to destinations, the logical framework for its evaluation is accessibility, which combines—at a minimum—mobility and proximity. I argue that a shift in the transportation and land-use planning paradigm from a mobility to an accessibility basis 1) is compelled by transportation theory; 2) would be transformative to the practices of transportation and land-use planning; but 3) is impeded through misconceptions of the nature of accessibility itself.
Education
Education
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley.
M.C.P., City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley.
M.S., Engineering (Civil Engineering-Transportation focus), University of California at Berkeley.
B.S., Political Economy of Natural Resources, University of California at Berkeley.
Summary of Teaching Interests and Experience
Summary of Teaching Interests and Experience
Transportation and land-use planning, accessibility, planning for emerging transportation systems.
Courses I’ve taught in recent years include Transportation and Land-Use Planning, Public Economics for Urban Planning, State and Local Land Management, Research Design, and Integrative Field Experience (MUP Capstone).
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Levine, Jonathan, Joe Grengs, and Louis Merlin. (Forthcoming, 2019) The Accessibility Shift: Transforming Transportation and Land-Use Planning. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Levine, Jonathan. (2006) Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.
Merlin, Louis A., Jonathan Levine, and Joe Grengs. (2018) Accessibility Analysis for Transportation Projects and Plans. Transport Policy 69:35-48.
Levine, Jonathan, Matan Singer, Louis Merlin, and Joe Grengs. (2018) Apples to Apples: Comparing BRT and Light Rail while Avoiding the “BRT-Lite” Trap. Transport Policy 69:20-34.
Levine, Jonathan, Moira Zellner, Maria Arquero, Yoram Shiftan, and Dean Massey. (2018) The Impact of Automated Transit, Pedestrian, and Bicycling Facilities on Urban Travel Patterns. Transportation Planning and Technology 41(5):463-480.
Levine, Jonathan, Louis Merlin, and Joe Grengs. (2017). Project-Level Accessibility Analysis for Land-Use Planning. Transport Policy 53(2017):107-119.
Zellner, Moira, Dean Massey, Yoram Shiftan, Jonathan Levine, and Maria Arquero. Overcoming the Last-Mile Problem with Transportation and Land-Use Improvements: An Agent-Based Approach.(2016) International Journal of Transportation 4(1):1-26.
Levine, Jonathan. (2013) Is Bus versus Rail Investment a Zero-Sum Game?: The Misuse of the Opportunity-Cost Concept. Journal of the American Planning Association 79(1):5-15.
Levine, Jonathan, Grengs, Joe, Qingyun Shen, and Qing Shen. (2012). Does Accessibility Require Density or Speed? A Comparison of Fast Versus Close in Getting Where You Want to Go in U.S. Metropolitan Regions. Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(2), 157-172.
Grengs, Joe, Jonathan Levine, Qing Shen, and Qingyun Shen. (2010). Intermetropolitan Comparison of Transportation Accessibility: Sorting Out Mobility and Proximity in San Francisco and Washington, DC. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 29(4), 427-443.
Rodriguez, Daniel, Jonathan Levine, Jumin Song, and Asha Weinstein Agrawal. (2010). Can Information Promote Transportation-Friendly Location Decisions? A Simulation Experiment. Journal of Transport Geography 19(2):304-312.
Selected Research Projects
Selected Research Projects
Implementation of Accessibility-Based Evaluation for Transportation and Land-Use Planning. NEXTRANS, Region V University Transportation Center. United States Department of Transportation
Sustainable Transportation for a 3rd Century: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Addressing the Last Mile Problem for Enhanced Accessibility. Office of the University of Michigan (Global Challenges for a Third Century Phase 1 grant program).
Accessibility Evaluation from Laboratory to Practice. NEXTRANS, Region V University Transportation Center. United States Department of Transportation.
Professional Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
American Planning Association
Michigan Association of Planning
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