3835 Campus Drive
Architecture Building (145 ARC)
College Park, MD 20742
United States
In his lecture, Dr. Wachs will examine the crisis of transportation finance in relation to planning and policy. He will review the current debate as to the role of taxes and tolls as a means to meet the challenges facing our current and future transportation network and infrastructure. The Seminar will provide an additional opportunity to discuss with Dr. Wachs the issues raised during his lecture.
Sponsored by The Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Foundation.
Speaker
Martin Wachs
Senior Principal Researcher
RAND
Martin Wachs is a senior principal researcher at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He formerly served as director of the RAND Transportation, Space, and Technology Program. Prior to joining RAND in 2005, he was professor of civil and environmental engineering and professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where was also director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. Prior to this, he spent 25 years at UCLA, where he served three terms as chairman of the Department of Urban Planning. Wachs served on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board for nine years and was the TRB Chairman in 2000. He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships.
In 2006 he was named "Member of the Year" by the San Francisco Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar. His most recent work focuses on transportation finance in relation to planning and policy. Dr. Wachs received his Ph.D. and M.S. in urban and regional planning from Northwestern University and his B.S. in civil engineering, City University of New York.