Brief Autobiography
I am joining the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney.
From 1999-2016, I served as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota and director of the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (NEXUS) research group. In January 2005 I was awarded the CUTC/ARTBA New Faculty Award. I earned a Ph.D in Transportation Engineering at U.C. Berkeley in 1998. My dissertation "On Whom the Toll Falls", argues that local decision making about managing and financing roads will be more likely to lead to direct road pricing, which will allow the efficient allocation of scarce road resources (and thus reduce congestion). I have condu...