Dan Chatman is an assistant professor of urban planning and policy, and director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center. His research areas include travel behavior and the built environment; smart growth; the impacts of development on transportation costs; water governance policy; municipal fiscal decision making; and local economic development. His research has been published in Access, the Transportation Research Record, Planning and Markets, the Journal of the American Planning Association, and the edited volume Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States (Ashgate, 2003). Dr. Chatman's previous professional experience includes work as a Peace Corps volunteer English teacher in Botswana, a vocational specialist for developmentally disabled adolescents, an intern with a small-town planning department, and an economic and planning consultant to cities and counties in California and Arizona.
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.
