Rachel Weinberger
Biography
B.A., Hunter College
M.U.P., Hunter College
M.S., University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor Weinberger's areas of expertise include transportation and land use interactions, sustainable transportation, urban economics, econometric analysis for transportation planning, parking policy, the emerging field of transportation and social interactions and travel behavior in general. Her primary interests include mitigating transportation impacts on the environment, urban transportation, transportation and economic development, transportation investment and location decisions of households and firms.
Prior to joining the faculty at PennDesign Dr. Weinberger was a practicing planner in the public and private sector. She has worked for the City of New York, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and consulting firms such as Nelson\Nygaard, URS Corporation and Cambridge Systematics. She continues to consult for Non-Governmental Organizations such as the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and Transportation Alternatives; she also provides transportation advice to municipalities ranging in size from Cheltenham in Pennsylvania (population 37,000) to Mexico City (population 21 million). While on leave from Penn, Professor Weinberger served as the Senior Policy Advisor for Transportation to New York City Mayor, Bloomberg, in the development of PlaNYC, the city's much-lauded 2030 sustainability plan.
Dr. Weinberger is a member of the Clinton Climate Foundation Climate+ Development Project Technical Advisory Group and the New York Academy of Sciences; Greening Transportation and Infrastructure Discussion Group Steering Committee. She is the Chair of the Transportation Research Board Sub-committee on Parking Management and co-Chair Transportation Sub-committee of the University of Pennsylvania Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee.
Work/Research
Professor Weinberger has worked on a wide range of transportation planning projects including transportation master plans, parking policy studies, mobility and access plans, ground side access to airports, adapting strategies of travelers in the New York Metropolitan region after 9/11 and econometric analyses of transportation investment on property value. She developed a street management framework in Lower Manhattan to help the New York City Department of Transportation program street use during reconstruction of the World Trade Center site and the rebuilding of the Lower Manhattan district. Current projects include research on:
• Parking infrastructure
o the effect of residential parking supply on travel behavior,
o land value capitalization of residential parking on single to three family homes in New York City,
o placement of parking lots/garages and the corresponding effect on mode choice to grocery stores,
• Transportation and Social Interactions
o Peer pressure, trends and tipping points and their effect on car ownership
o The effects of past experience on car ownership and mode choice
• The use of WalkScore.com walkscores as a planning tool to predict mode choice and trip generation
• The history and politics of congestion pricing in New York City
Publications
Dr. Weinberger has produced over 40 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and other publications. Her work appears in a variety of journals among them the Journal of Public Works Management and Policy, Urban Studies, Transportation Research Record and Parking Today. Her book, Auto Motives, co-edited with Drs. Karen Lucas and Evelyn Blumenberg, examines auto use behaviors.
Lucas, Karen, Evelyn Blumenberg and Rachel Weinberger (editors). 2011. Auto Motives: Understanding Car Use Behaviours. Emerald Group, Bingley, UK. ISBN: 978-0-8572423-3-4
Dilworth, Richardson, Robert Stokes, Rachel Weinberger & Sabrina Spatari. 2011 "The Place of Planning in Sustainability Metrics for Public Works: Lessons from the Philadelphia Region" Journal of Public Works Management and Policy 16: 20-39.
Weinberger, Rachel and Frank Goetzke 2010. "Unpacking Preference: How Previous Experience Affects Auto Ownership." Urban Studies Vol. 47 No. 10. 2111-2128
Weinberger, Rachel, John Kaehny and Matt Rufo. 2010. "U.S. Parking Policies: An overview of management Strategies (Executive Summary)" Parking Today 26-32. Los Angeles, CA, Bricepac. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f907a039#/f907a039/26
Maley, Donald and Rachel Weinberger 2009. "Rising Gas Price and Transit Ridership: Philadelphia Case Study" Transportation Research Record No 2139: 183-188.
Weinberger, Rachel, Mark Seaman and Carolyn Johnson. 2009. "Residential Off-Street Parking: Car Ownership, VMT and Carbon Impacts (Case Study New York City)" Transportation Research Record No.2118: 24-30.
Courses
Professor Weinberger teaches Introduction to Transportation Planning and the Advance Transportation Seminar.
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