Biography

Martin Wachs is Director of the Transportation, Space and Technology Program. Until the end of 2005 he was Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Professor of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where was also Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. He earlier spent 25 years at UCLA, where he was Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning.

Wachs has written 160 articles and four books on subjects related to relationships between transportation, land use, and air quality, techniques for the evaluation of transportation systems, and the use of performance measurement in transportation planning. His research also addresses issues of equity in transportation policy, problems of crime in public transit systems, the response of transportation systems to natural disasters including earthquakes, and most recently transportation finance in relation to planning and policy.

Dr. Wachs served on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board for nine years and was the TRB Chairman in 2000. He recieved a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships, a UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award, the Pyke Johnson Award for the best paper presented at an annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, and the Carey Award for service to the TRB. In 2006 he was named “Member of the Year” by the San Francisco Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar.