Kazuya Kawamura

Job title: 
Professor
Department: 
Alumni
Urban Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bio/CV: 

Dissertation: Commercial Vehicle Value of Time and Perceived Benefit of Congestion Pricing

Advisor: Martin Wachs

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1999

MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

BS Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1988

University of Illinois Chicago - Present 

  • Professor, Urban Planning and Policy

Kazuya Kawamura is a Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has managed over $2 million in external research grants and has over 100 publications on a variety of topics including transport economics, travel analysis, and freight planning. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the North Carolina State University, Raleigh and PhD and Master's degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests: 

Freight transportation

Transportation economics

Congestion pricing

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