David Levinson

Job title: 
Professor
Department: 
Alumni
Civil Engineering
University of Sydney
Bio/CV: 

Dissertation: On Whom the Toll Falls: A Model of Network Financing

Advisor: Mark Hansen

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1998

MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, 1992

BS Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988

University of Sydney - Present 

  • Professor of Transport, School of Civil Engineering

Prof. David M. Levinson joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney in 2017. He also serves as an adjunct faculty in the. Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where from 1999 to 2016, he served on the faculty. He was Managing Director of the Accessibility Observatory , and directed the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems ( NEXUS ) research group. He held the Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation (2006-2016). He also served on the graduate faculty of the Applied Economics and Urban and Regional Planning programs at the University of Minnesota. In academic year 2006-2007 he was a visiting academic at Imperial College in London.

Research interests: 

Transit accessibility

Travel behavior

Network structures

Applications