Marlon Boarnet, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
At the University of California, Irvine, Marlon Boarnet is a professor and chair of the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design. Boarnet's extensive research is focused in the areas of transportation policy, local economic development, intra-metropolitan population and employment settlement patterns, and includes publications on the economic and urban development impacts of highways, land use and travel behavior, transit-oriented development, urban enterprise zones, and population-employment growth models.
His articles have appeared in several refereed journals and he serves as the co-editor of the Journal of Regional Science and is an editorial board member of the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Literature, and Papers in Regional Science. He was also a guest editor for the Journal of American Planning Association's special issue on health and planning. Boarnet's co-authored book, Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel (Oxford University Press, 2001) is a comprehensive assessment of the modeling and policy challenges inherent in linking urban design to transportation planning.
Boarnet has received over one million dollars in competitively funded research grants, that have included work for the California Department of Transportation, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the University of California Transportation Center, among others.
Boarnet received a Ph.D. from Princeton University 's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; a Master of Arts and Master of Public Affairs also from Princeton; and an undergraduate degree in physics from Rice University.
For additional information, please see Marlon Boarnet's biography at the University of California, Irvine.
Marlon Boarnet is a keynote speaker for the Safe Routes to School and School Siting event on September 12, 2006.
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