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Roadways for the Future
September 23, 2019 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
PLAN 590 Special Topics Seminar – Roadways for a safer future
Ensuring our future transportation system is safe, equitable, and sustainable will require leadership from scholars and professionals with a wide range of expertise. This one-credit course aims to develop such future leaders by fostering discussion, collaboration, and shared understanding across disciplines about critical and emerging challenges in transportation. Using a combination of seminars, workshops, and local field trips, we will explore the role roadway infrastructure plays in shaping day-to-day life and long-term planning decisions from multiple perspectives.
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Land Use and Environmental Planning
Dr. Danielle Spurlock’s work focuses on plan and policy implementation and addresses policy questions in the areas of planning, public health, environmental and social justice, and dispute resolution. Her research explores the relationships among land use, the environment, human behavior, and structural inequality on a variety of research projects including: social stratification and its impact of the siting of hazardous land uses; social vulnerability and emergency preparedness; and the impact of land use decisions on ecosystems services. Dr. Spurlock’s most recent research investigates plan and policy implementation and the land use decision-making process at the parcel level.