Dr. Nuworsoo earned his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. He earned his MCP Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. In 1986 he earned his MS in Transportation Studies from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. He earned his BS, graduating with Honors, from the University of Science and Technology in Ghana in 1981. His areas of interest, experience and knowledge include development of transportation master plans; development of strategic transportation policy and financing plans; travel demand forecasting by manual methods or simulation models; traffic operations and capacity analysis including signal timing and coordination; traffic impact analysis, safety studies and environmental assessment; and preliminary engineering studies. Dr. Cornelius Nuworsoo, AICP, has 22 years of experience both in urban and regional planning and in transportation engineering. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a full member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Formerly a senior transportation planner with the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, an MPO, he has extensive experience and expertise in the development of transportation master plans and in the application of travel demand modeling software. He played key roles in the development of the regional long-range transportation plan, which involved the full spectrum application of the urban transportation planning process (UTPS) in the analyses to determine the long-term development of highway and transit infrastructure in the Baltimore metropolitan area. He performed similar roles in the development of the transportation master plans for the U.S. Department of Interior that involved the determination of the long-term transportation needs and the coordinated sets of improvements consistent with the social, environmental, and economic goals of 24 different communities in Colorado, Florida, and New Mexico. He has many years of hands-on application experience with such travel forecasting models as minUTP (at the Baltimore Metropolitan Council) TRANPLAN (in corridor analyses for the Delaware Department of Transportation) and TP+ (in the modeling for the 2012 Olympic bid for the San Francisco Bay Area). Dr. Nuworsoo is currently an instructor in courses that deal with analytic methods in transportation and land use planning at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where he also engages in sponsored research projects. His research interests cover multi-modal transportation and land use planning; benefit-cost analysis; and the analysis of equity impacts of transportation proposals.
Articles
Analyzing equity impacts of transit fare changes: Case study of Alameda–Contra Costa Transit, California (with Aaron Golub and Elizabeth Deakin), Evaluation and Program Planning (2009)
Many public transit agencies consider increasing fares when faced with budget shortfalls. This paper analyzes...
Defining Sampling Districts for Household Travel Surveys: A Case Study of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, Transportation Research Record (2007)
This paper provides an additional demonstration of the phenomenon richly illustrated by previous studies that...
MCRP Community Planning Graduate Studio 2005/06: King City Community Plan (with Kenneth Topping), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2006)
During the current academic year, the City and Regional Planning Department graduate Community Planning Studio...
New Public Transit System for Accra, Ghana, Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2006)
Cornelius Nuworsoo joined the CRP department in 2005 and specializes in transportation planning. He developed...
Cost per User as Key Factor in Project Prioritization: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area (with Kamala Parks and Elizabeth Deakin), Transportation Research Record (2006)
Efforts to accommodate increasing and dispersed demand for travel in the face of mounting traffic...
Research Project Reports
Preliminaries to a Feasibility Analysis of the Maglev Proposal of The Southern California Association of Governments for the Region, City and Regional Planning (2009)
This is a seed grant study to perform a preliminary investigation of the system components...
City of Guadalupe: Background Report (with Jeffrey W. Hook and Cal Poly Graduate Planning Studio), City and Regional Planning (2009)
This Background Report is an integral part of the City of Guadalupe Community Plan. It...
City of Guadalupe: Community Plan (with Jeffrey W. Hook and Cal Poly Graduate Planning Studio), City and Regional Planning (2009)
The Guadalupe Community Plan contains long‐term goals, objectives, policies, and programs to provide a basis...
City of Guadalupe: Housing Element (with Jeffrey W. Hook and Cal Poly Graduate Planning Studio), City and Regional Planning (2009)
The City of Guadalupe’s Housing Element is a major component of the General Plan that...
Conference Proceedings
A Benefit-Cost Evaluation of Smart Transit Features at Small Scale Transit Operations (with Edward Sullivan, Xudong Jia, Neil Hockaday, and Bruce Chapman), Proceedings of the 2009 Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. (2009)
This study evaluates the benefits and costs of smart transit technologies at San Luis Obispo...
Transforming High-speed Rail Stations to Major Activity Hubs: Lessons for California (with Elizabeth Deakin), Proceedings of the 2009 Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. (2009)
This paper presents findings from domestic and international case studies of developments around high-speed rail...
Vehicle Emissions and Level of Service Standards: Exploratory Analysis of the Effects of Traffic Flow on Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions (with Rafael Cobina, Tony Henderson, Sudeshna Mitra, and Edward Sullivan), Proceedings of the 2009 Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. (2009)
Many local jurisdictions seek to preserve adequate infrastructure by enacting level of service (LOS) policies...