August 2017 - Present | Education Director, San Jose State University ‐ Mineta Transportation Institute | |
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August 2015 - Present | Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Department of Urban and Regional Planning | |
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January 2009 - Present | Director MTI's National Transportation Finance Center, San Jose State University | |
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Disciplines
Grants
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" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$72,847 | |
2017 - Present | Is That Hoverboard Whizzing by Me Supposed to Be on the Sidewalk? Regulating All Types of Personal Transportation Devices to Balance Transportation and Safety Concerns |
San Jose State | |
Role: Co-PI | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Kevin Fang (PI) | |
$69,313 | |
2016 - Present | "Slimming the Streets: An Analysis of Before-and-After Effects from San Jose’s Lincoln Avenue Road Diet" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon (PI) | |
$7,500 | |
2014 - Present | National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project #08-100: Environmental Justice Analyses When Considering Toll Implementation or Rate Changes |
Transportation Research Board | |
Role: Member of 17-person research team led by The Louis Berger Group | |
$499,915 | |
2018 | What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Transportation? Results from Year 9 of a National Survey |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$70,000 | |
2016 | "A Survey of Viva CalleSJ Participants: San Jose, California 2016" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$7,500 | |
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" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$84,340 | |
2015 - 2016 | "A Survey of Viva CalleSJ Participants: San Jose, California 2015" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$5,000 | |
2014 - 2016 | National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project #20-05, Synthesis Topic 46-01: Public Perception of Mileage Based User Fees |
Transportation Research Board | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$40,000 | |
2013 - 2016 | "Bicycling and Access to Transit by Low-Income Immigrants" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Colleague(s): Daniel G. Chatman (PI) | |
$60,808 | |
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" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$72,589 | |
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" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$72,609 | |
2013 - 2014 | "Comparing Modes of On-Board Transit Passenger Surveys: Assessing Trade-Offs between Data Quality and Cost" |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Co-Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon (PI), Gregory L. Newmark | |
$60,808 | |
2013 | “What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads? Results from Year 4 of a National Survey” |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$73,784 | |
2012 | “2012 Census of California Water Transit Services” |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Colleague(s): Richard Kos (PI) | |
$11,410 | |
2012 | “What Do Americans Think About Federal Transportation Tax and Fee Options? Results from Year 3 of a National Survey” |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$73,784 | |
2011 | “What Do Americans Think About Federal Transportation Tax and Fee Options? Results from Year 2 of a National Survey” |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Hilary Nixon | |
$65,000 | |
2009 - 2011 | “An Investigation into Constraints to Sustainable Vehicle Ownership and Use and Travel Behavior” |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Bradley Flamm (PI) | |
$62,625 | |
2009 - 2011 | “Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By: The Travel Behavior and Transportation Expenditures of Low-Income Adults” |
Mineta Transportation Institute | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Dr. Evelyn Blumenberg (co-PI), Dr. Charles N. Darrah | |
$60,611 | |
2009 - 2011 | “The Intersection of Urban Form and Mileage Fees: Findings from the Oregon Road User Fee Pilot Program” |
MTI National Transportation Finance Center | |
Colleague(s): Zhan Guo (PI), Jennifer Dill | |
$59,628 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2017 - Present | Member, Journal of the American Planning Association Redesign Task Force | 2017 - Present | Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Women's Issues in Transportation Conference Planning, Transportation Research Board | 2017 - Present | Member, Task Force on the Transportation Research Board Centennial | 2017 - Present | Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Transportation Research Board’s 6th Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation Conference | 2015 - Present | Chair, Transportation History Committee (ABG50) of the Transportation Research Board | 2012 - Present | Member, Congestion Pricing Committee (ABE25) of the Transportation Research Board | 2012 - Present | Member, Research Associates Policy Oversight Committee, Mineta Transportation Institute (San José State University) | 2010 - Present | Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association | 2002 - Present | Chair or Member on multiple committees, Department of Urban and Regional Planning (San José State University) | 2014 - 2016 | Adviser, Pedestrian Access to Transit Plan Task Force, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency | 2014 - 2016 | Adviser, Traffic Safe Communities Network Steering Committee | 2015 | Adviser, Regional Means-Based Transit Fare Pricing Study Technical Advisory Comm, Metropolitan Transportation Commission | 2013 - 2015 | Member, Transportation History Committee (ABG50) of the Transportation Research Board | 2014 | Member, Conference Organizing Committee, Transportation Research Board’s 5th International Transportation Finance Conference | 2010 - 2014 | Member, Conference Steering Committee, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation – Land Use – Environment Connection | 2012 - 2013 | Mentor, Mentorship Program of the American Planning Association, California Northern Section | 2008 - 2013 | Member, Transportation Education and Training Committee (ABG20) of the Transportation Research Board | 2006 - 2012 | Chair, Research Associates Policy Oversight Committee, Mineta Transportation Institute (San José State University) | 2010 | Member, Conference Steering Committee, Transportation Research Board’s 4th International Conference on Surface Transportation Financing | 2009 - 2010 | Member, Conference Planning Committee, California University Transportation Centers |
Honors and Awards
- 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).
Courses
- Field Study Seminar
- Environmental Planning
- Communication Skills for Planners
- Introduction to Urban & Regional Planning
- Special Study: Planning Report
- Planning Report: Preliminary Report
- Transportation and the Environment
- Transportation Planning: Local Issues
2002 | PhD, University of California - Berkeley ‐ City and Regional Planning | |
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1994 | MS, London School of Economics ‐ Urban and Regional Planning | |
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1993 | B.A., Harvard University ‐ Folklore and Mythlogy | |
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Contact Information
Asha.Weinstein.Agrawal@sjsu.edu
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