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Robert Cervero
Robert Cervero is an author, scholar, consultant, and educator in sustainable transportation policy and planning. During his 36 years as a faculty member in city and regional planning at UC Berkeley, he gained an international reputation for his seminal work in the sphere of urban transportation and land-use planning, in the United States and worldwide. He is also know for his work on induced travel demand, informal transport and paratransit , and suburban growth and traffic.

Academic and Professional Life
Currently holding the title Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, he twice chaired urban department and also served as Director of two major research units: the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC, 2009-2017 ) and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD, 2009-2014 ). Professor Cervero held Berkeley planning department’s first distinguished Chair appointment, the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies from 2011 to his retirement from academe in 2016. Among his books are Beyond Mobility (2017), Transforming Cities with Transit (2013) , Informal Transport in the Developing World (2001) , The Transit Metropolis (1998) , Transit Villages in the 21st Century (1997), Paratransit in America (1997), America’s Suburban Centers (1989) and Suburban Gridlock (1986).

Professor Cervero has over the years been as an advisor and consultant on transport projects throughout the U.S. and in many parts of the world, including China, Colombia, Brazil, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Tanzania, Argentina, Philippines, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Netherlands, Uruguay, Ireland, Australia, Mexico, and Canada. He has influenced policies on transit oriented development (TOD), transportation finance, and land-use policies in many rapidly growth cities of the world. Among his clients have been the World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, UN Habitat, and Arriyadh Development Authority.

While UC Berkeley was home for much of his academic life, Robert Cervero has had visiting academic and research appointments at a number of other universities and institutions, including: University of Cambridge (Churchill College, Overseas Fellow); Nanyang Technological University (SMRT Visiting Profess); University College London (Visiting Professor); University of Pennsylvania (Faculty Fellow); King Saud University (Academic Expert); Tongji University; University of Melbourne; Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro; Institute of Technology Bandung; Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements; Harvard Institute for International Development; Dortmund University; and Urban Land Institute (Fellow). Since 2017, Robert Cervero has served as a Visiting Professor at NYU-Abu Dhabi, teaching a January-term class on “Green Mobility and Cities”.

Robert Cervero has served on over a dozen editorial boards of academic journals, including co-editorship of Access, a publication of the University of California. He has chaired the International Association of Urban Environments, served on the Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum‘s Future of Urban Development and was a contributing author to the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change ) Fifth Assessment (2014) and UN-Habitat’s Global Report on Sustainable Mobility (2013).

Recognitions
Robert Cervero is the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research and is a two-time recipient of the Article of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association. In 2013, UMB’s Future Cities ranked Robert Cervero among the top 100 City Innovators Worldwide. That year he also won Hsue-shen Tsien Gold Medal award, given in Beijing for his influence on Chinese transit metropolises. In 2016, Professor Cervero was recognized by Planning magazine as one of "Five Academic Planners You Should Know" and  credited as the “pioneer” of the now-ubiquitous “D” variables for studying travel behavior and called “the world’s top expert on transit-oriented development. That year, at the time of his retirement from UC Berkeley, he had the second highest h-index (Google Scholar citations) ranking among more than 1000 urban planning academics in North America.

Personal Life
Robert Cervero is married to Sophia Cervero. With her, he has three children: Kristen, Christopher, and Alexandria. A guitarist and mellotronist, Robert Cervero has maintained an active foot in music much of his life. He has chronicled the music of the prog-rock band King Crimson as a collector of rare live music, anniversary parties , and listening parties of unreleased music (posted on Elephant Talk)    , and a tribute to mellotrons. In 2000, he created a fan page for the prog-rock Irish band Fruupp.

In the early 2000s, Robert Cervero got involved with the Active Living movement, serving as chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Active Living Research (ALR) program for more than decade. This affiliation with physical activity research prompted him to become more physically active himself. In his fifties to mid-sixties, he completed more than 60 marathons and over 110 ultramarathons (31 miles or longer, including seven 100-milers). Running and active living extended into his transportation research as well, including involvement in several National Academy projects and research on "Running to Work".

Books

 * Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 2017; with E. Guerra and S. Als.
 * Suburban Gridlock II. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2013 (re-release with a new introduction)
 * Transforming Cities with Transit. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2013; with H. Suzuki  and K. Iuchi;  http://www.scribd.com/doc/119380943/Transforming-Cities-with-Transit
 * Developing Around Transit: Strategies and Solutions That Work. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2004; with R. Dunphy, F. Dock, M. McAvery, D. Porter, and C. Swenson.
 * The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry, Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998; translated into Chinese, China Architecture and Building Press, 2007. Winner of Hsue-shen Tsien Gold Medal award.
 * Paratransit in America: Redefining Mass Transportation. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Transit Villages in the 21st Century. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997; with M. Bernick.
 * America's Suburban Centers: The Land Use-Transportation Link. Boston: Unwin-Hyman, 1989.
 * Suburban Gridlock. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Other Links
Robert Cervero’s Faculty Page: https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/robert-cervero

Robert Cervero’s Personal Web Page: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/faculty/cervero_robert/