Asha Weinstein Agrawal is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at San José State University and Director of MTI’s National Transportation Finance Center at San José State University. Her research agenda is guided by a commitment to the principles of sustainability and equity: what planning and policy tools can communities adopt to encourage environmentally-friendly travel and improve accessibility for people struggling with poverty or other disadvantages? She has explored this question most deeply through two substantive areas, transportation finance policy and the travel behavior of pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders. Dr. Agrawal also works in the area of urban history and is currently Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Transportation History.
Dr. Agrawal’s research on contemporary policy issues has been cited in the popular media. Stories quoting her or citing her work have appeared in such outlets as The Washington Post (on gas taxes and mileage fees), CBS Evening News (on mileage fees), ABC News/KGO-TV (on mileage fees), the San Diego Union-Tribune (on transit fare policy), WBUR (on the history of traffic congestion), and the San Francisco Chronicle (on transportation taxes).
2017 - Present "What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads? Results from Year 8 of a National Survey"
2016 - Present "Slimming the Streets: An Analysis of Before-and-After Effects from San Jose’s Lincoln Avenue Road Diet"
2016 "A Survey of Viva CalleSJ Participants: San Jose, California 2016"
2016 "What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads? Results from Year 7 of a National Survey"
2015 - 2016 "A Survey of Viva CalleSJ Participants: San Jose, California 2015"
2013 - 2016 "Bicycling and Access to Transit by Low-Income Immigrants"
2015 "What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads? Results from Year 6 of a National Survey"
2014 "What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads? Results from Year 5 of a National Survey"
2013 - 2014 "Comparing Modes of On-Board Transit Passenger Surveys: Assessing Trade-Offs between Data Quality and Cost"
Outstanding Paper Award from the Transportation Research Board Committee on Pedestrians (2007), for the paper “Pedestrian Preference to Transit: A Spatial Analysis of Route Choice” (with Marc Schlossberg and Katja Irvin).
Kevin Fang, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Jeremy Steele, John Joseph Hunter, et al.
Lawrence Peseky, Deborah Matherly, Leigh Lane, David Aimen, et al.