Susan Handy
Professor


How to reach me...

Department of Environmental Science and Policy
2130 Wickson Hall
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA  95616
530-752-5878 (office)
530-752-3350 (FAX)
e-mail:  slhandy@ucdavis.edu

Office hours...

by appointment via email

 

Courses...

                              

TTP 282 Transportation Orientation Seminar

Fall 2009

ESP 171 Environmental Planning

Spring 2008

TTP220 Transportation Policy and Planning

Spring 2008

ESP 178 Applied Research Methods

Winter 2008

TTP289A The Land Use - Transportation Connection

Winter 2003

 

I take graduate students through the following graduate groups at UC Davis…

§   Transportation Technology and Policy Program

§   Graduate Group in Ecology – Environmental Policy Area of Emphasis

§   Graduate Group in Geography

§   Civil and Environmental Engineering – Transportation Planning and Design

 

 

More about me… 

I am a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California at Davis, where I teach in the Environmental Policy and Planning major and in the Transportation Technology and Policy Program. I am also the director of the Sustainable Transportation Center, part of the federal university transportation centers program.  My research focuses on the relationships between transportation and land use, particularly the impact of land use on travel behavior, and on strategies for reducing automobile dependence.   My recent work includes a series of studies on bicycling in Davis, examinations of changing policies and practices in regional transportation planning, an exploration of the travel needs of recent immigrants in California, and a study of the effect of cul-de-sacs on children’s outdoor play.  I serve on the Committee on Land Development and Transportation, the Committee on Women’s Transportation Issues, and the Committee on Transportation Education of the Transportation Research Board.  I received my B.S.E. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University (1984), my M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University (1987), and my Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley (1992).

Current CV… 

 

Presentations – slides, audio, and/or video!

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Bicycling in Davis:  A Critical Look at the First Platinum Bicycle City in the U.S., presented at the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Center, May 2007

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Toward an Accessibility Framework for Transportation Planning, presented at From Mobility to Accessibility, University of Michigan, December 2004

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Transportation, Access, and Community Design, presented at the TRB Conference on Research on Women’s Transportation Issues, Chicago, IL, November 2004

 

Selected papers and reports...

Search for my publications on the Institute of Transportation Studies publication page!

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Buehler and Handy, Fifty Years of Bicycle Policy in Davis, CA, presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Xing, Handy, and Buehler, Factors Associated with Bicycle Ownership and Use: A Study of 6 Small Cities in the U.S., presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Tal and Handy, Children’s Bicycling for Non-School Purposes: Getting to Soccer Games in Davis, CA, presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Community Design and Travel Behavior: Exploring the Implications for Women.  In Research on Women’s Travel Issues: Report of a Conference, Conference Proceedings 35, Transportation Research Board, 2006.

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Which Comes First? The Neighborhood or the Walking?  Access magazine, Fall 2005, with Pat Mokhtarian

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif The Travel Behavior of Immigrants and Race/Ethnicity Groups: An Analysis of the 2001 National Household Transportation Survey. Tal, Gil; Handy, Susan. ITS-Davis. December 2005. UCD-ITS-RR-05-24.

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Critical Assessment of the Literature on the Relationships Among Transportation, Land Use, and Physical Activity  Resource paper for TRB Special Report 282:  DOES THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE PHYSICAL ACTIVTIY?  EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE, written by the Transportation Research Board and Institute of Medicine Committee on Physical Activity, Health, Transportation, and Land Use, January 2005.

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Driving by Choice or Necessity?  Final version published in Transportation Research A

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Community Design and Physical Activity:  What Do We Know? – and what DON’T we know?  Presented at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences conference on“Obesity and the Built Environment: Improving Public Health through Community Design,” Washington, DC, May 2004

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Driving Less, Access magazine, Fall 2003

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Smart Growth and The Transportation-Land Use Connection: What Does the Research Tell Us?   Final version just published in International Regional Science Review

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  The Education of Transportation Planning Professionals  Published in  Transportation Research Record, 2002, with Lisa Weston, Jumin Song, and Maria Lane

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Accessibility- vs. Mobility-Enhancing Strategies for Addressing Automobile Dependence in the U.S.  Written for the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, 2002

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif How the Built Environment Affects Physical Activity: Views from Urban Planning Published in American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 2002, with Marlon Boarnet, Reid Ewing, and Rich Killingsworth

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif A Guide to Success for Small Texas Metropolitan Planning Organizations Prepared for the Texas Department of Transportation, August 2002

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Evaluating Neighborhood Accessibility: Possibilities and Practicalities  Published in the Journal of Transportation and Statistics, 2002, with Kelly Clifton

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Local Shopping as a Strategy for Reducing Automobile Dependence  Published in Transportation, 2001, with Kelly Clifton

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Understanding the Growth in Non-Work VMT  Research report for the Southwest Region University Transportation Center, August 2002, with Kelly Clifton and Andrew DeGarmo

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif Qualitative Research Methods in Travel Behaviour Research  in Transport Survey Quality and Innovation, 2003, with Kelly Clifton

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif The Effectiveness of Land Use Policies as a Strategy for Reducing Automobile Dependence:  A Study of Austin Neighborhoods  Research report for the Southwest Region University Transportation Center, August 1998, with Janice Fisher and Kelly Clifton

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif The Impacts of Telecommunications Technologies on Nonwork Travel Behavior Research report for the Southwest Region University Transportation Center, January 1997, with Tom Yantis

 

Links pages... that haven’t been updated in a many years

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Urban Transportation Planning Resources

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Neighborhood Transportation Planning Resources

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Highways and Communities Resources

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/images/bjpdt5.gif  Suburbia Resources

 

Fun stuff...

  The John Muir Trail: Read a description of our 20 day trip through the Sierra Nevada in 1997 (pre kids!) and see some pictures.

 


 

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