Christopher Zegras
Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning
Room 10-403
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
URL: http://web.mit.edu/czegras/www/Zegras.htm
Email: czegras@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 452-2433
Current Research
: The relationship between transportation and the built environment
: Transportation system finance
: Transportation energy use and greenhouse gas mitigation
Currently Transportation Systems Focus Area Lead for the MIT Portugal Program.
Selected Publications
The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership & Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile. Urban Studies, 2009 (forthcoming).
Behaviorally-Based Transportation Greenhouse Gas Mitigation under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Case of Transport-Efficient Development in Nanchang, China, with Y. Chen and J. Grütter. Transportation Research Record, 2009 (forthcoming).
Shifting Urban Priorities: The Removal of Inner City Freeways in the United States, with F. Napolitan. Transportation Research Record No. 2046, 2008.
Household Income, Travel Behavior, Location and Accessibility: Sketches From Two Different Developing Contexts. With S. Srinivasan, Transportation Research Record 2038, 2007.
As If Kyoto Mattered: The Clean Development Mechanism and Transportation. Energy Policy. Vol. 35, 2007.
The Kyoto Protocol and Sustainable Cities: The Potential Use of the Clean Development Mechanism in Structuring Cities for "Carbon-Efficient" Transport, with P. Donoso and F. Martínez. Transportation Research Record No. 1983: Energy and Environmental Concerns, 2006.
Transportation and the Clean Development Mechanism: Experiences and Lessons from Chile, with J. Browne, E. Sanhueza, E. Silsbe, S. Winkelman (International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2005).
From Understanding to Action: Sustainable Urban Development in Medium-Sized Cities in Africa and Latin America. Editor with M. Keiner W. Schmid, D. Salmerón (Springer, 2004).
Influence of Land Use on Travel Behavior in Santiago, Chile, Transportation Research Record 1898: Travel Demand and Land Use (2004).
Scenario Planning: A Proposed Approach for Strategic Regional Transportation Planning, with J. Sussman and C. Conklin, Journal of Urban Planning and Development (2004).
Indicators for Sustainable Urban Development, with I. Poduje, W. Foutz, E. Ben-Joseph, O. Figueroa. In From Understanding to Action: Sustainable Urban Development in Medium-Sized Cities in Africa and Latin America (Springer, 2004).
Financing Transport Infrastructure in Developing Country Cities, Transportation Research Record No. 1839: Transportation Finance, Economics, and Economic Development (2003).
Private Sector Participation in Urban Transport Infrastructure Provision. In Sustainable Transport: A Sourcebook for Developing Cities. (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammen-arbeit (GTZ), 2003).
Carsharing in Latin America, with R. Gakenheimer. In World Transport Policy and Practice (Earthscan/Stockholm Environment Institute, 2003).
Recent Classes
11.220 Quantitative Reasoning and Statistical Methods for Planning I Spring 10
11.526J Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning Spring 10
11.943 Advanced Seminar in Transportation Finance Fall 09
Recent Awards
David C. Lincoln Fellowship in Land Value Taxation, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Dissertation Fellowship, MIT Presidential Fellowship, U.S. Department of Transportation Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship
Additional Information
Chris Previously worked as a Research Associate at MIT's Laboratory for Energy & the Environment. He also spent 6 years with the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) in Washington, DC and Santiago de Chile. He developed and co-taught the Santiago Urban Planning Studio (Spring, 2003) and also co-taught Urban Transportation, Land Use and Environment in Latin America (11.943J, Spring 2002). He has consulted widely on transportation, land development, environment, and finance, including for the International Energy Agency, the Government of Peru, the World Bank, the U.S., Canadian, and German overseas development agencies, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Zegras holds a BA in Economics and Spanish from Tufts University, and the Master in City Planning, the Master of Science in Transportation, and the Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT.
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