Monday, April 16, 2012

Slate's "Learning to Walk" Highlights Walking, Transportation Research from UAP's Ralph Buehler

Slate's "Learning to Walk" article by Tom Vanderbilt highlights the practice of walking and its relationship (and its paradoxes) with transportation planning.  It notes the research of UAP's Ralph Buehler, an Assistant Professor in Urban Affairs & Planning and a Faculty Fellow with the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center.  Most of his research has an international comparative perspective, contrasting transport and land-use policies, transport systems, and travel behavior in Western Europe and North America, and this comparison is reflected in Vanberbilt's article.

Read the article here

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