About

Marcel Moran, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University. He studies urban transportation via a variety of methods, including satellite imagery, mining open datasets, and in-person field collection. His published work has led to policy changes in both San Francisco and New York City, and his research has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Forbes, and Bloomberg CityLab. 

From 2023-2025 he served as Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress. He received his PhD from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2023. For academic year 2021-22, he was given the department's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. He holds a bachelors degree from Harvard University and a masters degree from the University of Chicago. His MA Thesis, which was awarded the Earl S. and Esther Johnson Prize, examined U.S. municipalities that financially subsidize Uber and Lyft. He is an avid cyclist, and has biked the entire coast of California. He lives in San Francisco.

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