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Three graduate students affiliated with the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California are among the 20 Eno Transportation Foundation Fellows for 2002. The award includes a five-day visit to Washington, D.C., where they meet with top policymakers and transportation leaders under the auspices of the Eno Foundation’s Leadership Development Program. The winners are Amber Elizabeth Crabbe, a master’s student at UC Berkeley, Tracy McMillan, a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine, and Daniel G. Chatman, a Ph.D. student at UCLA.
Fellows are chosen on the basis of their accomplishments, leadership and intention to pursue a career in transportation. Transportation graduate students are nominated by their professors, with a limit of one nominee from each campus.
Following are brief descriptions of the backgrounds and research interests of the students affiliated with ITS:
- Amber Elizabeth Crabbe is studying for dual master’s degrees in transportation and city planning from UC Berkeley. “I am interested in enhancing the efficiency, sensitivity, and equity of transportation systems and in looking at creative ways to use our limited transportation dollars to reach those goals,” she said. Crabbe hopes to work in a local or regional agency in the Bay Area. She is also drawn to South America, where the rapid growth of cities has created transportation problems and a demand for solutions. Crabbe received a B.S. in civil engineering and art and design from MIT. “The conference will help me focus my professional interests by showing me transportation’s most important emerging issues.” (Return to top.)
- Tracy McMillan is a Ph.D. student in urban and regional planning at UC Irvine. She is writing her dissertation on how urban form—such as where a school is sited and the existence of sidewalks and crosswalks—affects a child’s trip to school, a basic assumption underlying the recent Safe Routes to School legislation in California and similar laws in other states. She received her M.S. in public health from Emory University and is interested in the impact of community design on exercise and overall health. “The knowledge, experience and contacts gained at the conference will help me … provide research findings and policy guidance to individuals and organizations in transportation planning and public health who are trying to break new ground in their relationships with one another,” she wrote in her application. (Return to top.)
- Daniel G. Chatman is a third-year Ph.D. student in urban planning at UCLA. He is interested in the influence of land use on travel behavior and integrated land-use and transportation planning, in particular, land-use policies that are intended to reduce congestion and sprawl and increase accessibility without adding to the transportation infrastructure. Offering developers incentives to build infill development in core urban areas where transit is underutilized is one such policy. Creating dense mixed-use developments at rail stops is another. “All of this increases ‘accessibility’ by placing origins and destinations closer together—in terms of distance or in terms of travel time, and perhaps particularly for certain demographic groups,” he said. Chatman believes the conference will help him better understand federal transportation policy and practice. (Return to top.)
The Eno Foundation Fellowships were created to promote professional networking and cooperation among the fellows throughout their careers. Founded in 1921 by William Phelps Eno, the Eno Foundation is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to improving all modes of transportation. It publishes the journal, Transportation Quarterly, as well as books and reports on a variety of transportation topics. For more information about the foundation, go here.
