Carolina Transportation
Program


Transporation
Planning
Specialty

Land Use,
and Environmental
Planning

CURS Faculty
Fellow

PRESS:

Urban Sprawl
Could Contribute
To Obesity

Ozone Alert
Daniel Rodriguez
was a guest on
WUNC's State of
Things radio
program

Alternatives to
sprawl: New
urbanism taking
to streets

Made for Action

           1.18.08

Research and Practice
Dr. Rodríguez’s research focuses on the relationships that exist between transportation systems,
travel behavior and land use planning and urban development.  Through his study of these relationships,
Dr. Rodríguez has developed several projects of interest to practitioners and academics:

• Use of land use plans in conducting impact assessments of transportation projects;
• Estimation of land value impacts of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems;
• Incorporation of the connection between transportation and land development in land use plans;
• Study of differential travel impacts of new urbanist communities;
• Examination of impacts of transit oriented developments (TODs) and other accessibility-related
  interventions on traveler behavior;
• Development of an advanced transportation-land use model to evaluate vehicular emissions and regional
  air quality in the Charlotte (NC) metropolitan area; and
• Study of the physical activity consequences of residing in various urban environments in Montgomery
  County (MD).

For a summary of existing research projects   

Ongoing & recently completed research support


Selected Publications
• Rodriguez, D. and Targa, F. (2004). The value of accessibility to Bogota's bus rapid transit system,
  Transport Reviews, 24:5, 587-610.

• Rodríguez, D.A., Targa, F. and Aytur, S. In press.  Transportation implications of urban containment
  policies - A study of the largest 25 U.S. metropolitan areas, Urban Studies, 40 pages. Click here for the abstract

• Rodríguez, D., Khattak, A.J., and Evenson, K.R. 2006.  Can New Urbanism encourage physical activity? 
  Comparing a New Urbanist neighborhood with conventional suburbs, Journal of the American Planning
  Association, 72:1, 43-56. Click here for the abstract

• Rodríguez, D.A., Targa, F. and Belzer, M. 2006.  Pay incentives and truck driver safety: A case study.
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59:2, 205-225. Click here for the abstract

• Berke, P., Godschalk, D. Kaiser E. with Rodríguez, D. A. 2006. Urban Land Use Planning, 5th Edition,
  Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press.  Urban Land Use Planning

• Rodríguez, D.A., Brown, A. and Troped, P. 2005.  Portable global positioning units to complement
  accelerometry-based physical activity monitors, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 37:11,
  S572-S581. Click here for the abstract



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