SMART people 
Jonathan Levine
University of Michigan
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning Program
What inspires me about SMART:
Until the development of SMART there was no sustained cross-campus interest in transportation policy. SMART provides a forum for people from a variety of disciplines to interact and collaborate on one of the most pressing global issues.
Biography:
Jonathan Levine studies the intersection of transportation policy and land-use policy. His research is organized around two major themes. The first, which led to the publication of Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use in 2006, pertains to the rationale for transportation and land-use policy reform. In the current policy environment, the low-density auto oriented status quo is largely assumed to be the product of market forces, and disputes center on the legitimacy of governmental intervention. By contrast, Levine argues that the status quo is a highly regulated reality and that much needed policy reform amounts to removal of obstacles to people’s choice of a transportation and land-use environment. The second theme pertains to the role of accessibility (as opposed to mobility) as the proper goal of transportation planning. In this regard, he is leading a three-year study to measure and compare accessibility between the largest metropolitan areas.
Levine holds the Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, and an M.C.P. and M.S. (transportation engineering) from the University of California, Berkeley.
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