Robert Cervero

Bio

Prof, Dept of City & Regional Planning, Univ. of CA-Berkeley

Robert Cervero is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on sustainable transportation policy and planning, including Transit Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects (2004, National Academy Press), The Transit Metropolis (Island Press, 1998); Informal Transport in the Developing World (UN Press, 2000); Transit Villages for the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill, 1997) and Paratransit in America (Praeger, 1997).  In recent years, Professor Cervero has been an advisor and consultant on transport projects in China, Colombia, Brazil, the Philippines and many parts of the U.S..  His current research includes studies on neighborhood impacts of freeway removal projects, carbon impacts of built environments, growth and travel in large Chinese cities, transit value capture in megacities of Asia, traffic impacts of second-generation edge cities, and parking needs for transit-oriented development.  In 2004, Professor Cervero was the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research and also won the 2003 Article of the Year award from the Journal of the American Planning Association.   Professor Cervero presently serves on the editorial boards of six journals and a National Academy Science Committee on Energy and Built Environments, and chairs the National Advisory Committee of the Active Living Research Program of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.