Dan Chatman is an assistant professor of urban planning and policy, and research director at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center. His research areas of interest include travel behavior and the built environment; smart growth; water governance policy; municipal fiscal decision making; and local economic development. His research relies heavily on original data collection including surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Current funded research includes studies of the economic impacts of south Jersey's River Line, the barriers to transit-oriented development in New Jersey, the implications of immigration trends for transit service in the state, and methodological improvements to calculating the economic impacts of transit investments in the U.S.
Traffic and sprawl: Evidence from US commuting, 1985 to 1997. In Urban sprawl in Western Europe and the United States, edited by C. Bae and H. Richardson. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2004 (with R. Crane).
California travel trends and demographics study. Sacramento: California Department of Transportation, 2002 (with R. Crane, A. Valenzuela, L. Schweitzer and P. Wong). LINK TO EXCERPT
Water governance in the San FranciscoBay Area: Challenges and opportunities. Oakland, CA: California Policy Research Center, 2001 (with R. Crane, L. Schweitzer and L. Takahashi).
Transportation strategies to serve California’s people, enhance its prosperity, and protect its resources: Proceedings of the California Transportation Futures Conference, Los Angeles, California, June 21 to 22, 2001. Sacramento: California Department of Transportation, 2001 (with L. Schweitzer).
Growth and the quality of life: Summary of symposium proceedings. Los Angeles: UCLA Extension Public Policy Program, 2000 (with L. Schweitzer).
Book review: Global culture. [Review of Global Culture: Media, arts, policy, and globalization (2002), edited by Diana Crane, Nobuko Kawashima and Ken'ichi Kawasaki.] Critical Planning 10: 109-113, 2003.
Review essay: New works on the new regionalism. [Review of The Regional City (2001), Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton; Regions that Work (2000), Manuel Pastor, Jr., Peter Dreier, J. Eugene Grigsby and Marta Lopéz-Garza; and City Making (1999), Gerald R. Frug.] Critical Planning 8: 113-120, 2001.
