Elizabeth Deakin

Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning

Director, University of California Transportation Center

 

Campus Address:

UC Transportation Center

108 Naval Architecture Bldg.

Berkeley, CA  94720-17282

 

Tel. 510/642-4749  

Fax 510/643-5456

E-mail: edeakin@ix.netcom.com

             

Interests:

Transportation policy, planning and analysis; land use policy and planning; legal and regu­latory issues; institu­tions and organiza­tions; energy and the environ­ment, information technologies.

 

Current Positions:

1.        Associate Professor, Department of City and Region­al Planning, University of Califor­nia, Berkeley (UCB) 1992- ;

2.        Director, University of California Transportation Center (half time), March 1999-

3.        Affiliated faculty, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, 1996 -

4.        Affiliated faculty, Master of Urban Design Program (College of Environmental Design), UCB 1998 -

 

Former Positions:

             

1.        Acting Director, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UCB (1997-98- half time)

2.        Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engi­neering, UCB  (1992‑ 96) (without salary)

3.        Assistant Professor, Department of City and Region­al Planning; Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engi­neering; Assis­tant Research Engineer, Institute of Trans­portation Studies, University of Califor­nia, Berkeley (UCB) (1985‑1992)

4.        Lecturer, UCB Dept. of Civ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­il Engineering (without stipend) (1983-87)

5.        Lecturer, Stanford University Infrastructure Plan­ning & Management Program (part‑time; 1980‑84)

6.        Specialist, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCB (part-time 1979-1980; full-time 1981-1984)

7.        Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CSI), Senior As­sociate and Manager, Berkeley Office (1976­‑79)

8.        Research Associate, Center for Transporta­tion Studies, MIT (1974‑77)

9.        Adjunct faculty, Northeastern University Dept. of Political Science, Public Administra­tion Program (part-time; 1973‑76)

10.     Research Engineer, Urban Systems Laboratory, MIT (1972‑74)

11.     Research Assistant and Research Staff, Transpor­tation and Community Values Project, MIT (part-time; 1971‑72)

12.     Research Staff, Study of American Political Parties, Cambridge, MA (summer 1970)

13.     Research Staff, American Survey Research Corporation, Cambridge, MA (part-time; 1969-70)

             

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B., (Political Science) 1971;  S.M.,  (Civil En­gineer­ing­ Trans­portation) 1972, J.D.,  Boston College Law School, 1975


PUBLICATIONS COMPLETED SINCE 1992

 

Refereed Publications in Archival Journals and Conference and Symposium Proceedings

                                            

1.        Greig Harvey and Elizabeth Deakin, "Air Quality and Transportation Planning: An Assessment of Recent Developments", in Transportation and Air Quality, Number 5 of Searching for Solutions: A Policy Discussion Series; Federal Highway Administration, US Dept. of Transportation, August 1992, pp.  1-20.  (Part A - discussion paper for symposium)

--Editor of Part B, Summary of Presentations, op. cit., pp. 21-30

            --E. Deakin, "Issues of Highway Capacity and VMT, Trips, and Emissions" (summary of presentation at symposium), op. cit., p. 23.

             

2.        E. Deakin, "Land Use Impacts of Congestion Pricing - An Exploratory Analysis" - paper prepared for the Transportation Research Board, June 1993; published as Elizabeth Deakin, "Urban Transportation Congestion Pricing: Effects on Urban Form",  in Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion, Special Report 242, Vol. 2, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1994.

             

3.        Elizabeth Deakin and Greig Harvey, "CO2 Emissions Reductions from Transportation and Land Use Strategies ‑ A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area", in Julia Trilling and Steinar Strom, eds., Global Climate Change: European and American Policy Responses, Proceedings of the Peder Sather  Symposium, Center for Western European Studies and Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oct. 17‑18, 1991; published by the Regents of the University of California, 1993. Pp.  93‑109.

             

4.        E. Deakin, "Market-Based Measures for Transportation Management: Pay-at-the-Pump, Road Pricing, Parking Pricing, and Vehicle Registration Fees", paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1995. Published as Summary Report: Transportation Pricing Strategies for California: An Assessment of Congestion, Emissions, Energy and Equity Impacts”, prepared for the California Air Resources Board, the Federal Highway Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the California Energy Commission, and Caltrans, June 1996

             

5.        E. Deakin, "Perspectives on Causes and Cures for Urban Decay: The Role of University Urban Planning Departments in Community Building", presented at the conference of the same name, University of Connecticut, Feb. 27, 1998; published as University of Connecticut Law Review 30:257, 1998.

             

6.        E. Deakin, "Transportation and Central Cities: Environment and Quality of Life Issues”, Resource Paper for the Conference on Transportation Issues in Large US Cities, Detroit, MI, June 28-30, 1998; Conference Proceedings 18, Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, 1999

 

7.        E. Deakin, "Combating Global Warming Through Sustainable Surface Transportation Policy", paper prepared for the Transportation Cooperative Research Program, Jan. 1999.

 

8.        Asha Weinstein and E. Deakin, "How Local Governments Finance Traffic Calming", paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1999 (accepted for publication); published as A. Weinstein and E. Deakin, "How Local Governments Finance Traffic Calming", Transportation Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 3, Summer 1999.

             

             

Articles in Non-Archival Magazines or Journals

             

1.        E. Deakin, "Social Equity and Planning" Essay, Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 13, pp. 1-5, 1999.

             

2.        T. Goldman and E. Deakin, "Partnerships Under ISTEA: An Evaluation", paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 1998; accepted for presentation based on review of abstract. Paper published as T. Goldman and E. Deakin, “Regionalism through Partnerships? Metropolitan Planning Since ISTEA”, Berkeley Planning Journal 14, Winter 2000

 

Papers for Conferences and Symposia – Acceptance on Review of Abstract

             

1.        E. Deakin, “Land Use Modeling and Analysis: Emerging Needs and Future Directions”, for the 1994 Conference of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Dallas, Texas, October 17, 1994

 

2.        E. Deakin and G. Harvey, “Market Based Measures to Control Automobile Use”,  Paper #96273, 70th Annual Western Economic Association International Conference, San Diego,   July 5-9, 1995.

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3.        E. Deakin and G. Harvey, “Transportation Pricing Strategies: Impacts by Income, Race, and Ethnicity”, conference paper, Second National Conference on Women’s Travel Issues, Baltimore, MD, October 24-26, 1996.

 

4.        Chris Porter, Laura Melendy and Elizabeth Deakin.  “Land Use and Travel Survey Data: A Survey of the Metropolitan Planning Organizations of the 35 Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas.”  In Land Use Compendium.  Travel Model Improvement Program, U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, March 1998.

             

5.        S. Mehndiratta, M. Hansen, and E. Deakin, Aggregate Influence of Time of Day Effects in Intercity Business Travel, conference paper, International Association of Travel Behaviour Research, Austin, TX, Sept. 21-25, 1997.

             

6.        E. Deakin and G. Harvey, “Transportation Pricing Strategies: Impacts by Income, Race, and Ethnicity”, conference paper, Second National Conference on Women’s Travel Issues, Baltimore, MD, October 1996. Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Nov. 1997.

             

7.        Asha Weinstein and E. Deakin, " A Survey of Local Traffic Calming Practices, “Annual Meeting of the Institute of Traffic Engineers Conference, Monterey, CA, Spring 1998. Also presented at the International Meeting of ITE, Toronto, August 1998. Included in proceedings.

            - Presented in revised form as Weinstein and E. Deakin, " A Study of Current Traffic Calming Practice in the United States", paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 1998

             

8.        Elizabeth Deakin, "Land Use for Sustainable Urban Transport." Paper prepared for the NSF/ESF Conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport," University of California, Berkeley, March 1999.

 

Papers for Conferences and Symposia- By Invitation (Not Refereed)

 

1.        L. Schipper, E. Deakin, and D. Sperling, "Sustainable Transportation: The Future of the Automobile in an Environmentally Constrained World", paper for the Asilomar Conference, August 1994. Also published as Energy Review paper, 1994.

 

2.        E. Deakin, “Negotiated Development and Economic Downturns”, paper prepared for Strategic Approaches to Planning: Toward Shared Urban Policies, International Workshop at the Politecnico de Milano, Facolta di Architettura, Milan, March 16-17, 1995. Published in Italian as a chapter in Pianificazione strategica e gestione dello sviluppo urbano (Strategic Planning and Management of Urban Change), A-linea, Florence, 1996

 

3.        E. Deakin, "Land Use Politics and Transit: The Case of BART", paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1995.

 

4.        Frick, K., S. Heminger, G. Harvey and E. Deakin, “The Bay Bridge Congestion Pricing Demonstration Program”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 1995.

 

5.        E. Deakin, Transportation Impacts of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake: the Bay Bridge Closure- Findings from a Survey of East Bay Residents.” UC Transportation Center, Oct. 1991. Summarized and distributed at “Restoring Mobility and Economic Vitality Following Major Urban Earthquakes: Lessons from Two California Quakes Within Five Years”, Conference co-sponsored by the UCTC and the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Los Angeles, April 25-26, 1996.

 

6.        Greig Harvey and E. Deakin, “The STEP Analysis Package: Description and Application Examples”, presented at the TMIP conference, New Orleans; published as Appendix B in Guidance on the Use of Market Mechanisms to Reduce Transportation Emissions, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, Fall 1996.

 

7.        Elizabeth Deakin, “Linking Transportation Design to Good Land Use Planning.” Mayors Institute on City Design: West 1997 Institute Summary. University of California, Berkeley, CA. Nov. 20-23, 1997.

 

8.        E. Deakin, "Land Use for Sustainable Urban Transport: An Assessment of Problems and Options", Paper for the ECMT/OECD Workshop on Land Use for Sustainable Urban Transport, Linz, Austria, Sept 1998

 

9.        E. Deakin, "Transportation Pricing Strategies", paper presented at the Conference on Social Cost and Sustainability, German Marshall Fund and Pace University, New York City, September 1998.

 

10.     E. Deakin, "Implementing TEA 21: Integrating Transportation, Land Use and Economic Development", paper presented at the Seventh Conference on Metropolitan Transportation Planning Issues, Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Dallas Texas, Oct. 1998.

 

11.     E. Deakin, "Regional Planning for Sustainable Transportation - Aligning Economic Development and Environmental Protection." Paper for the symposium Traffic and Urban Development, sponsored by the Dept. of Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering, University of Stuttgart, and the Institute for Urban Construction and the Dept. of Economics, Institute for Economics and Law, Stuttgart, June

 

12.     Elizabeth Deakin, “Sustainable Transportation: Findings from an International Scanning Review.” Paper presented meetings of the following organizations: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan. 2000, the AMPO Annual Meeting, Spring 2000, ITE Meeting, Spring, 2000. Additional presentations are scheduled for Fall 2000. 

 

13.     Chris Porter, Laura Melendy, and Elizabeth Deakin, “Land Use and Travel Survey Data: A Survey of the Metropolitan Planning Organizations of the 35 Largest US Metropolitan Areas”, IURD Working Paper 656, February 1996. Presented at the TRB Data Committee, January 1997. Distributed by TMIP, BTS, and FTA, and by the TRB Data Committee; published in Land Use Compendium, TMIP series, USDOT and USEPA, March 1998.

 

 

Books and Monographs

 

1.        Greig Harvey and Elizabeth Deakin, A Manual of Regional Transportation Modeling Practice for Air Quality Analysis, Version 1.0, prepared for the National Association of Regional Councils with funding from the US Department of Transportation and the US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, July 1993. 251 pp. (peer reviewed)

 

2.        Homburger, E. Deakin, P. Bosselmann, D. Smith, and B. Beukers, Disegno di Strade Urbane e Controllo del Traffico: La riqulificzione ambientale nei Piani ubani del traffico, Edizione italiana a cura di Gian Paulo Corda, Editore Ulrico Hoepli S.p.A., Milano, 1993 (Italian version of Residential Street Design and Traffic Control, Prentice Hall, 1989.)

 

3.        Elizabeth Deakin, "Policy Responses in the USA",  Ch. 4 in David Banister and Kenneth Button, eds., Transport, Environment, and Sustainable Development, E & FN Spon, London, 1993.

 

4.        Elizabeth Deakin and Greig Harvey, with R. Pozdena, G. Yarema, et al. “Transportation Pricing Strategies for California: An Assessment of Congestion, Emissions, Energy and Equity Impacts”.  Final Report to the California Air Resources Board, the Federal Highway Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Caltrans, June 1996, rev. Nov. 1996. 392 pp. (peer reviewed)

 

 

Published Plans

             

1.        "Implementation Program for the Long Range Development Plan, University of California Santa Cruz, Phase One Report, Sept. 1992 (consultant team Richard Bender, Philip Enquist, Jay Claibourne, and Elizabeth Deakin (transportation/traffic))

             

2.        Communications Hill, San Jose, CA - prime contractors Solomon Architecture and Planning, member of design team (responsible for transportation elements; in Peter Katz, The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, McGraw Hill, 1994, pp. 78-87, credits pp. 233-234.

             

3.        Downtown Hayward, Hayward, CA - prime contractors Solomon Architecture and Planning, member of design team (responsible for transportation elements); in Peter Katz, op. cit.,   pp. 127-133; credits p. 235.

             

4.        Calvine Specific Area Plan, Sacramento, CA; prime contractors Calthorpe Associates; member of design team (responsible for transportation elements); in Peter Calthorpe, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream,  Princeton Architectural Press, 1993, pp. 150-151, credits p. 173