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In addition to being a professor of city planning, Elizabeth Deakin is Director of the University of California Transportation Center and a member of the affiliated faculty of Berkeley’s Master of Urban Design Program and the Energy and Resources Group. Her research and teaching are focused on transportation and land use planning and policy, institutions, and law, and environment and energy issues. Deakin has published widely on intelligent transportation systems, transportation pricing, and sustainable transportation fuels and technologies. Relevant publications include Sustainable Development and Sustainable Transportation: Strategies for Economic Prosperity, Environmental Quality, and Equity (IURD, 2003) and Metropolitan Profiles: Development Patterns, Socioeconomic Characteristics and Transit Use: 1960-1995 (IURD, 1997).

As a transportation specialist Robert Cervero’s current research projects include Accessibility, Mobility, and Sustainability in China, funded by the Volvo Foundation as one of five research themes being carried out under the UC Berkeley Center for the Future of Urban Transportation (part of ITS). Cervero’s interests span the areas of transportation and land-use policy and planning, suburban mobility, infrastructure finance, and comparative international development. He is the author of numerous books: The Transit Metropolis (Island Press, 1998); Transit Villages for the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill, 1997), Paratransit in America (Praeger, 1997), America’s Suburban Centers (Unwin-Hyman, 1989), and Suburban Gridlock (Rutgers Press, 1986) and Developing Around Transit: Strategies and Solutions That Work (2004). Other relevant IURD publications include: Paradigm Shift: From Automobility to Accessibility Planning (1996).