CURRICULUM VITAE

Gregory L. Thompson

June 2010

 

Professor

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL 32306-2280

 

Telephone:

Home: (850) 562-8124

Office:  (850) 644-8514

FAX:  (850) 645-4841           

Mobile: (850) 566-7909

 

E-Mail:

glthompson@fsu.edu

 

Home Page:

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~gthompsn/my_web/default.htm

 

Education:

U.C. Irvine, Social Science                 Ph.D.   6/87

U.C. Berkeley, Urban Planning          M.C.P. 6/70

U.C. Davis, Geography                      A.B.     6/68

 

Research Interests

Understanding the role of public transportation in auto-dominated society using historical case study and quantitative methods.

 

Teaching, Administrative and Research Experience

 

2010-present   Chair, Committee on Light Rail Transit (AP075), Transportation Research Board

2007-2008       Acting Chair, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

1999-2006:      Doctoral Program Director

2003-present:  Professor

2003-2004:      Sabbatical

1994-2003:      Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University. Courses taught in transportation planning, demand analysis, plan evaluation, and economic base analysis.

1988-1994:      Assistant Professor in Transportation Planning, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University.

1987-1988:      Andrew W. Mellon/National Endowment for the Humanities funded advanced research fellow working on "Technical Change on the Pennsylvania Railroad under Changing Market Conditions and Social Roles," Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807.

Spring 1987:    Teaching Assistant in Human Geography, School of Social Science, U.C. Irvine.

Fall 1986:        Teaching Assistant in Probability and Statistics, School of Social Science, U.C. Irvine.

1981-1986:      Teaching and Research Assistantships, School of Social Science, U.C. Irvine

 

Professional Experience

5/80 to 1/81     Lead consultant, Assembly Select Committee on Mass Transit, California State Assembly, Sacramento.

1/77 to 5/80     Senior transportation planner, San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB), San Diego, California.

06/75 to 1/77   Senior Transportation Planner, Integrated Planning Office, County of San Diego.  Worked on light rail and other transit planning activities.

12/74 to 6/75   Senior Transportation Planner, Department of Transportation, County of San Diego.  Worked on light rail and other transit planning activities.

7/73-12/74       Project Coordinator, Berkeley Coordinated Transit Development Project, City Planning  Department, City of Berkeley, California..

11/72-7/73       Senior Systems Analyst, Research Branch, Canadian Transport Commission, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

8/70-11/72       Transit Planner, Edmonton Transit System, City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 

 

Articles and Chapters Accepted and/or Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

J. Brown and G.L. Thompson. (2009) “Express Bus versus Rail Transit: How the Marriage of Mode and Mission Affects Transit Performance.” Transportation Research Record 2110: pp. 45-54. 

 

J. Brown and G. L. Thompson. (2008). "Service Orientation, Bus-Rail Service Integration, and Transit Performance: An Examination of 45 U.S. Metropolitan Areas." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, No. 2042: 82-89.

 

J. Brown and G. L. Thompson (2008). “Examining the Influence of Multidestination Service Orientation on Transit Productivity Change: A Multivariate Analysis.” Transportation: 35: pp. 237-252.

 

J. Brown and G. L. Thompson (2008) “The Relationship between Transit Ridership and Urban Decentralization: Insights from Atlanta.” Urban Studies 45: pp. 1119-1139.

 

G. L. Thompson (2007) “Taming the Neighborhood Revolution: Planners, Power Brokers, and the Birth of Neotraditionalism in Portland, Oregon.”  Journal of Planning History 6/3 (August): 214-247.

 

G. L. Thompson and J. Brown (2006).Explaining Variation in Transit Ridership Change in U.S. Metropolitan Areas Between 1990 and 2000: A Multivariate Analysis.” Transportation Research Record 1986, pp. 172-181.

 

G. L. Thompson, J. Brown, R. Sharma, and S. Scheib (2006). “Where Transit Use is Growing:  Surprising Results.” Journal of Public Transportation 9/2 (2006): 25-43.

 

G. L. Thompson (2005) “The Birth of the Light Rail Movement in North America and Its Results.” Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunications Journal  8:  142-164. Peer reviewed.

G. L. Thompson. (2003) “Defining an Alternative Future: Birth of the Light Rail Movement in North America.” Transportation Research E-Circular Number E-C058, ISSN 0097-8515. URL: http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/circulars/ec058/ec058.pdf

Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.: pp. 25-36.

 

G. L. Thompson and T. G. Matoff. (2003). “Keeping Up with the Joneses: Planning for Transit in Decentralizing Regions.” The Journal of the American Planning Association 69/3 (Summer): pp. 296-312.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (2003). “Transportation Development and Institutional Change,” Transportation Engineering and Planning, EOLSS Theme 6.40 Transportation Engineering and Planning, edited by Tschangho John Kim in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO,  EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK. [http://www.eolss.net]

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (2002). “The Impact of Railroads on the Early Growth of the Los Angeles Region.” Javier Vidal Olivares, ed..Ferrocarril y Ciudad (Railways and Cities), Madrid, Fundacion de los Ferrocarriles Españoles (Madrid: Spanish Railways Foundation 2002): 23-37. Book chapter.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (2001). “New Insights into the Value of Transit: Modeling Inferences from Dade County,” Transportation Research Record 1753 (2001): 52-58.

 

Gregory L. Thompson and Thomas G. Matoff. (2000). “Network Philosophy Affects Performance of Transit Investments in U.S. Urban Areas.” 8th Joint Conference on Light Rail Transit; Light Rail: Investment for the Future. Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.. CD ROM, Article G-20: no page numbers. Available on web at TRB bookstore, Book Code LRTCD-1.

 

Gregory L. Thompson and Ivonne Audirac. (2000). “Types of Transit Oriented Development That Matter to Light Rail.” 8th Joint Conference on Light Rail Transit; Light Rail: Investment for the Future. Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.. CD ROM, Article E-14: no page numbers. Available on web at TRB bookstore, Book Code LRTCD-1.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1999). “Transportation Investment, Economic Growth, and Social Costs.” in Charting Florida’s Future, Lance deHaven-Smith and Dena Hurst, editors. Tallahassee: Florida Institute of Government: 127-164.

 

Rebecca Miles-Doan and Gregory L. Thompson. (1999). "Planners and Pedestrian Safety: Lessons From Orlando," Journal of Planning Education and Research 18 (Spring): 211-220.

 

Randy Resor and Gregory L. Thompson. (1999). “Do North American Railroads Understand Their Costs? Implications for Strategic Decision-Making.” Transportation Research Record 1653:9-16.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1998). “Identifying Gainers and Losers from Transit Service Change: A Method Applied to Sacramento.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 17 (Winter): 125-136.

 

Gibran Hadj-Chikh and Gregory L. Thompson. (1998). “Reaching Jobs in the Suburbs: Tri-Rail in South Florida.” Transportation Research Record 1618: 14-21.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1997). “Achieving Suburban Transit Potential.” Transportation Research Record No. 1571:151-162.

 

Lynne Marie Whately, Bradley Friel, and Gregory L. Thompson. (1997). "An Analysis of Suburb-to-Suburb Commuter Rail Potential: Metrolink in Southern California." Conference Proceedings 8: 7th National Conference on Light Rail Transit, Vol. 2 with Associated Papers on Issues and Future of Rail Transit (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press:175-183.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1996). "The Interwar Response of the Southern Pacific Company and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to Passenger Road Competition," Business and Economic History: Journal of the Business History Conference 25/1:283-292.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1995). "How Cost Misunderstanding Derailed the Pennsylvania Railroad's Efforts to Save its Passenger Service." Journal of Transport History 16 (September):134-158.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1993). "Planning Beats the Market:  Pacific Greyhound Lines in the 1930s," Journal of Planning Education and Research 13 (November): 33-49.

Gregory L. Thompson, Bob Weller, and Walter Terrie. (1993). "New Perspectives on Highway Investment and Economic Growth," Transportation Research Record 1395: pp. 81-87.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1991). "Myth and Rationality in Management Decision-Making:  The Evolution of American Railroad Product Costing, 1870-1940," The Journal of Transport History 12:  1-10.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1991). "A Quantitative Method for Road Investment Policy Analysis," Transportation Research Record 1305: 169-176.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1989). "Misused Product Costing in the American Railroad Industry:  Southern Pacific Passenger Service Between the Wars," Business History Review 63 (Autumn):  510-554.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1987). "Management's Role in U.S. Rail Passenger Decline, 1920-1941," Transportation Research - A 21A: 95-108.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1987). "Inferring Regional Structure from Partial Transportation Flow Data," Papers of the Regional Science Association 67:  137-55.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1977). "Planning Considerations for Alternative Transit Route Structures," Journal of the American Institute of Planners 43:  158-168.

 

Book

Gregory L. Thompson. (1993). The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California's Rail and Bus Industries 1910-1941 (Columbus:  Ohio State University Press).  ISBN: 0-8142-0609-3. The book is published in OSUP's Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series, edited by Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr.

 

Refereed Monograph

Brown, Jeffrey and Gregory L. Thompson. 2009. The Influence of Service Planning Decisions on Rail Transit Success or Failure, MTI Report 08-04. San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute, June 2009.

 

Articles and Chapters under Review

B. Alam, G.L. Thompson, and J.R. Brown. (2010). “Estimating Transit Accessibility Using an Alternative Method: Evidence from Broward County, Florida.” Recommended for publication in Transportation Research Record, by the Transit Planning and Development Committee of the Transportation Research Board, February 2010.

 

Work in Progress

G. Thompson. Technological Change in Transit: How the U.S. Light Rail Movement Won its First Victory in San Diego.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

Gregory L. Thompson. (1998). "Railroads." Neil L. Shumsky, ed. The Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-Clio Publishing. 611-617.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1998). "Buses," Neil L. Shumsky, ed. The Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-Clio Publishing. 111-113.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1995). "Railroad Transportation Services," The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia, Anne C. Venzon, editor. (New York: Garland):489-494.

 

Review Essays

Gregory L. Thompson (2009). “Conspiracy or Consumer Choice? David W. Jones, Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis.” Review Essay in Technology and Culture 50/3 (July 2009): 673-676.

 

Book Reviews

Gregory L. Thompson (2008). Review of WATCHING THE TRAFFIC GO BY: TRANSPORTATION AND ISOLATION IN URBAN AMERICA, Paul Mason Fotsch (Austin: University of Texas Press), in Technology and Culture 49/1 (January 2008): 291-293.

 

Gregory L. Thompson (2007). Review of THE GREAT SOCIETY SUBWAY: A HISTORY OF THE WASHINGTON METRO, Zachary Schrag (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press), in Technology and Culture 48/1 (January 2007): 43-45.

 

Gregory L. Thompson (2006). Review of SUNSET LIMITED: THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN WEST 1850-1930, Richard J. Orsi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), in Journal of the American Planning Association 72 (Summer 2006): 373.

 

Gregory L. Thompson (2005). Review of A RAILROAD ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1946: VOLUME 1 THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES, Richard C. Carpenter (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004) in Journal of Transport History 26 (September): 141-143.

 

Gregory L. Thompson (2005). Review of SUBURBANIZING THE MASSES: PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Edited by Colin Divall and Winstan Bond (Ashgate, 2003) in Technology and Culture 46/3 (July): 662-664.

 

Gregory L. Thompson (2004). Review of BRITISH RAIL 1974-97: FROM INTEGRATION TO PRIVATISATION, Terry Gourvish (Oxford, 2002) in Journal of Transport History 25 (Summer).

 

Gregory L. Thompson (2003). Review of REGULATING RAILROAD INNOVATION: BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN AMERICA, 1840-1920, Steven W. Usselman (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002) in History and Technology 19/3 (Fall), pp. 299-301.

 

Gregory L. Thompson (2002). Review essay THE DRIVE-IN, THE SUPERMARKET, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMERCIAL SPACE IN LOS ANGELES, 1914-1941, Richard Longstreth (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999) and CITY CENTER TO REGIONAL MALL. ARCHITECTURE, THE AUTOMOBILE, AND RETAILING IN LOS ANGELES, 1920-1950, Richard Longstreth (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998) in Transportation Research A 36: 65-73.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1998). Review essay of THE URBAN TRANSPORT CRISIS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, John Pucher and Christian Lefevre (Basingstoke, England: Macmillan Press, Ltd. 1996) and TRANSIT VILLAGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Michael Bernick and Robert Cervero (New York: McGraw-Hill 1997) in Transportation Research A. 32: 621-626.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1996). Review of IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, Peter Nijkamp and Eddy Blaas (Dordrech, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994) in Transportation Research A 30:469-471.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1996). Review of PLANNING FOR THE PRIVATE INTEREST: LAND USE CONTROLS AND RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, 1900-1970, Patricia Burgess (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994), Journal of Economic History 56:261-263.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1994). Review of THE LOST DREAM: BUSINESSMEN AND CITY PLANNING ON THE PACIFIC COAST 1890-1920, Mansel G. Blackford (Columbus:  Ohio State University Press, 1993), Journal of Economic History 54 (March):226-227.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1993). Review of THE AUTOMOBILE, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, AND DAILY URBAN LIFE, Martin Wachs and Margaret Crawford, editors (Ann Arbor:  The University of Michigan Press, 1992), Transportation Research A 27A:407-409.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1990). Review of BUILDING THE AMERICAN HIGHWAY SYSTEM:  ENGINEERS AS POLICY MAKERS, Bruce E. Seely (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987), Transportation Research A 24A:313-315.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1989). Review of TRANSIT, LAND USE & URBAN FORM, Wayne Attoe, editor (Austin: Center for the Study of American Architecture, School of Architecture, The University of Texas, 1988), Journal of the American Planning Association 55:376-377.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. (1988). Review of OFF THE TRACK: THE DECLINE OF THE INTERCITY PASSENGER TRAIN IN THE UNITED STATES, Donald M. Itzkoff (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1985), Transportation Research - Part A 22A:232-233.

 

Contract Publications

Jeffrey R. Brown and Gregory L. Thompson, with Torsha Bhattacharya as Co-Author for Chapter 4. 2010. Draft. Evaluation of Land Use and Transportation Strategies to Increase Suburban Transit Ridership in the Short Term. Draft monograph delivered to the Public Transit Office of the Florida Department of Transportation, 4 February 2010.

 

Brown, Jeffrey and Gregory L. Thompson. 2008. “The Influence of Service Planning Decisions on Rail Transit Success or Failure.” San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute.

 

Timothy S. Chapin, Gregory L. Thompson, Jeffrey R. Brown. Rethinking the Concurrency Mandate. A white paper prepared for the Florida Department of Community Affairs, August 2007.

 

Gregory L. Thompson and Jeffrey R. Brown. A Geographic Analysis of Factors Leading to Superior Transit Performance. Prepared for the Florida Department of Transportation, Office of Public Transportation, August 2005.

 

DeWayne Carver, Gregory Thompson, and Steven Barnes. Improving Transit Involvement in Development Review, Final Report. Prepared for the Florida Department of Transportation, Office of Public Transportation, July 2002.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. “Transit Operations Analysis of New Section 5307 Agencies.” Conducted for Florida Department of Transportation, Office of Public Transportation. Draft report published July 1999. Final report published 30 November 1999. On web at: http://www11.myflorida.com/transit/Pages/transitoperationsanalysis.htm

 

Ivonne Audirac, Dean Gatzlaff, Stacy Sirmans, Yan Song and Gregory L. Thompson. "Marketing Transit Oriented Design. Phase II Final Report. A description of Transit Oriented Design and Associated Finance Structures." Prepared for the Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. October, 1999.

 

Gregory L. Thompson. "Transit Accessibility and the Labor Force Participation Rate of At-Risk Groups: Dade County Florida.” Final Report. NUTI3-FSU-2. Washington, D.C.: National Technical Information Service. June 1997.

 

Presentations

International

 “How Government, Corporations, and Consumers Established the Mix of Long Distance Bus and Passenger Rail Service in the U. S. During the Interwar Period.” Paper written for and discussed at Workshop 3 of the Dutch Mobility in a European Context: Two Centuries of Mobility Policy in Seven Countries. Dutch Ministry of Traffic and Water Management, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26-28 March 2009.

“Restructuring Transit for the Post Industrial City: The Case of Portland, Oregon 1969-1988.” Second Annual Meeting of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility.” Dearborn, Michigan, 4-7 November 2004.

“The Multi-Destination Transit Movement in Western U.S. and Canada, 1970-2000.” Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference and the European Business History Association, Le Creusot, France, 16-19 June 2004.

“Globalization and the Beginning of the Light Rail Movement in North America.” Annual meeting of the Business History Conference and the European Business History Association, Lowell, Massachusetts, 26-29 June 2003.

“The Impact of Railroads on the Early Growth of the Los Angeles Region.” II Congreso de Historia Ferroviaria, Fundacion de los Ferrocarriles Espanoles, Aranjuez, Spain, 7-9 February 2001.

"Railway Managerial Influence on the Creation of Two U.S. Bus Systems: With Very Different Results.” Session B of the XII International Economic History Congress, Madrid, Spain, August 1998. (My paper was in the program and discussed, but I did not attend.)

"Railway Managerial Influence on the Creation of Two U.S. Bus Systems: With Very Different Results.” Presented to the pre-congress of the XIIth International Economic History Congress in Montecatini Terme, Italy, April 1997.

"Pioneer Railways and the California Growth Machine, 1856-1910," presented to the International Colloquium on Early Railways as Pioneer Works, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Zentralinstitut für Fränkische Landeskunde und Allgemeine Regionalforschung (06), Erlangen, Germany, 17-20 January, 1992.

"Myth and Rationality in Railroad Decision-Making," presented to the Coloquio Internacional, Sobre Transporte E Industrializacion, Siglos XIX y XX, Madrid, Spain, January 1990.            

 

National

G. L. Thompson presentation of  J.R. Brown and G.L. Thompson (2009) “Express Bus versus Rail Transit: How the Marriage of Mode and Mission Affects Transit Performance,” at the 11th National Light Rail Transit Conference, jointly sponsored by the Transportation Research Board and the American Public Transportation Association, Los Angeles, 20 April 2009.

G. L. Thompson presentation of  Jeffrey R. Brown and Gregory L. Thompson “Making a Successful LRT-Based Regional Transit System: Lessons from Five New Start Cities,” at the 11th National Light Rail Transit Conference, jointly sponsored by the Transportation Research Board and the American Public Transportation Association, Los Angeles, 20 April 2009. This was at a panel chaired by Thompson.

G. L. Thompson presentation of G. L. Thompson and J. Brown. “Making a Successful LRT-Based Regional Transit System: Lessons from Five New Start Cities.” Presented to the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 14 January 2009.

G. L. Thompson presentation of J. Brown and G.L. Thompson. “Express Bus versus Rail Transit: How the Marriage of Mode and Mission Affects Transit Performance.” Presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 14 January 2009.

G. L. Thompson presentation of J. R. Brown and G. L. Thompson. "Service Orientation, Bus-Rail Service Integration, and Transit Performance: An Examination of 45 U.S. Metropolitan Areas." Presented to the 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 16 January 2008.

G.L. Thompson. “How Planners Used Equity to Overthrow the Established Transit Regime in San Diego.” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, October 2007.

G. L. Thompson. “What Portland’s Light Rail Decision Tells Us About Rational Planning.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Ft. Worth, November 2006.

G. L. Thompson and J. Brown.Explaining Variation in Transit Ridership Change in U.S. Metropolitan Areas Between 1990 and 2000: A Multivariate Analysis.” Presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2006, and included in the meeting’s conference proceedings.

J. Brown and G. L. Thompson. “Examining the Influence of Multidestination Service Orientation on Transit Productivity Change: A Multivariate Analysis.” Presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2006, and included in the meeting’s conference proceedings.

G. L. Thompson. “How Portland’s Power Brokers Accommodated the Anti-Highway Movement of the early 1970s: The Decision to Build Light Rail. Presented at the BHC Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, June 2005 and published in the conference proceedings, Business and Economic History On Line, Volume 3. The URL is: http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/2005/beh2005.html

G. L. Thompson, R. Sharma, S. Scheib. (presented by Rupa Sharma). “Where Transit Use is Growing: Surprising Results,” (second authors: Rupa Sharma and Samuel Scheib). 84th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. January 2005.

G. L. Thompson, R. Sharma, S. Scheib “Where Transit Use is Growing: Surprising Results,” (second authors: Rupa Sharma and Samuel Scheib). Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon, 21-24 October 2004.

“Defining an Alternative Future: Birth of the Light Rail Movement in North America,” formal paper presented to the 9th National Light Rail Conference, Portland, Oregon, 17 November 2003.

“Creating an Alternative Future: The Beginnings of the Light Rail Movement in North America,” Invited presentation to 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 15 January 2003.

“The Impact of the Light Rail Decision on Bus Development in the San Diego Region,” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, November 2002.

“The Impact of Transit Service Accessibility on the Labor Force Participation Rate of At-Risk Groups,” (formal paper) Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,  January 2001.

“The Mismatch between Transit Service Design and Regional Structure,” (formal paper), Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2001.

“How the Pennsylvania Railroad Mis-Judged the Costs of Its Intercity Passenger Services with Lessons for Today,” invited presentation to Chair and other members of the Amtrak Reform Council at the lunch meeting of the Subcommittee on Intercity Rail Finance, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2001.

“Do North American Railroads Understand Their Costs? Implications for Strategic Decision-Making.” Randy Resor and Gregory L. Thompson. Presented to Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 1999.

“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership Significantly: Planning Scenarios for Sacramento.” Presented to Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 1999.

“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership Significantly: Planning Scenarios for Sacramento.” Presented to Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Pasadena, November 1998.

“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership Significantly: Planning Scenarios for Sacramento.” Presented to RailVolution Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, September 1998.

“Transit Accessibility and The Labor Force Participation Rate of At-Risk Groups: Dade County.” Presented to the 1997 annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Ft. Lauderdale, November 1997.

"Achieving Suburban Transit Potential: Sacramento Revisited," refereed paper accepted for presentation to the 76th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, 13 January 1997.

"Achieving Suburban Transit Potential: Sacramento Revisited," presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association Collegiate Schools of Planning, Toronto, July 1996.

"The Interwar Response of the Southern Pacific Company and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to Passenger Road Competition," presented to the annual meeting of the Business History Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 1996.

"An Analysis of Suburb-to-Suburb Commuter Rail Potential: Metrolink in Southern California," presented to the 75th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 1996. (Paper was co-written with Lynne Marie Whately and Brad Friel.)

"The Equity Implications of Light Rail Investment: The Sacramento Case," presented to the 75th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 1996.

"The Equity Implications of Light Rail Investment: The Sacramento Case," presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Detroit, October 1996.

"Connectivity and Transit Potential:  The Sacramento Experience," presented to the 1994 annual meeting of the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, Phoenix, November 1994.

"New Perspectives on Highway Investment and Economic Growth," (first author:  Greg Thompson; co-authors Bob Weller and Walter Terrie).  Paper 930597 presented in Session 203, Economic Megatrends in Transportation, 13 January, 1993, at the Transportation Research Board 72nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C..

"Pacific Greyhound Lines in the 1930s," an extensively modified paper from the one listed below, presented to the 1992 annual meeting of the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, Columbus, Ohio, 31 October, 1992.

"Pacific Greyhound Lines in the 1930s:  A Triumph of Centralized Planning and Coordination Over the Market,"   presented to the Fourth National Conference on Planning History/Fifth International Conference, Planning History Group, Richmond, VA, 7-10 November 1991.

"A Quantitative Method for Highway Investment Analysis," presented to the January 1991 annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board.

"Passenger Decision-Making on the Pennsylvania Railroad," presented to the November 1989 meeting of the Planning History Society, Cincinnati.

"Productivity and Management Culture:  A Comparison of the Intercity Bus and Rail Passenger Industries in California, 1910-1941," presented at the dissertation session of the 1988 annual meeting of the Business History Society, Atlanta, March 1988.

"Management Culture and Productivity Evolution:  A Comparison of California's Intercity Bus and Rail Passenger Firms, 1910-1941," presented to the April 1987 annual meeting of the Economic and Business History Society in San Francisco.         

"Inferring Regional Structure from a Spatial Interaction Model," presented to the 1986 annual meeting of the Regional Science Association, Columbus, Ohio.

 

State

G. L. Thompson. “Seizing the Future. Starting the Light Rail Movement in North America.” The Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service at the University of Wisconsin, Marathon County (Wausau), 17 September 2009.

G. L. Thompson and J. Brown. “A National Appraisal of Where and Why Transit Works and What This Means for Florida.” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Florida Public Transit Association, West Palm Beach, Florida, November 2006.

“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership Significantly: Planning Scenarios for Sacramento.” Presented to Annual Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association, Pensacola, FL, October 1998.

"Enterprise Mis-Directed: the Collapse of American Rail Passenger Service," invited presentation to the Atlanta Seminar in the Comparative History of Labor, Industry, Technology and Society (Schlits) (composed of faculty and doctoral students from Emory University, Georgia Technological University, and Georgia State University), Emory University, Atlanta, Sunday 1 October 1995.

"Transit Connectivity:  The West Coast Experience,"  1993 Flordia APA Conference, Amelia Island Plantation, 5 Nov. 1993.

"DCA Transportation Concurrency Rule:  Yielding to Developers, or Promoting Planning Creativity?"  1993 Florida APA Conference, Amelia Island Plantation, 5 Nov. 1993.

"Getting It Right:  Transportation Planning and How to Fix It,"  panelist at colloquium sponsored by Sacramento Regional Transit, Sacramento 23 July 1993.

"The Declining Impact of Rail Passenger Service in the West," presented at the November 1987 meeting of the All-University of California Conference in Economic History, Sacramento.

 

Contracts and Grants Received

The Strategic Basic Research Office of IWT Flanders in Belgium invited me to review a planning proposal that would evaluate a proposed regional light rail network for Flanders. I accepted and carried out the review in May 2009.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson and Peter Koeppel contract administrators. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. Spring and Fall 2009. Seth Morgan and Megan Anderson were Transit Fellows for Spring and Summer 2009. Rory Rowan and Michael Sillence were Transit Fellows for Fall 2009. State funding (pass-through of federal money) : $30,000 for Spring and Fall 2009.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. Spring and Fall 2008. Alex Bell was Transit Fellow for Fall 2007, Spring 2008, and Summer 2008. Seth Morgan was Transit Fellow for Fall 2008. State funding (pass-through of federal money) : $30,000 for Spring and Fall 2008.

“AN EVALUATION OF LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES TO INCREASE SUBURBAN TRANSIT RIDERSHIP IN THE SHORT-TERM.” J. R. Brown, P.I., G. L. Thompson, co-P.I. Public Transit Office, Florida Department of Transportation. $83,713.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. Spring and Fall 2007. Ryan Jones and Monica Langenhan were Transit Fellows during Spring 2007. Monical Langenhan and Jason Learned were Transit Fellows during Summer 2007. Alex Bell was Transit Fellow for Fall 2007. State funding (pass-through of federal money) : $30,000 for Spring and Fall 2007.

The Influence of Service Planning Decisions on Rail Transit Success or Failure.” Co-Principal Investigator with Jeff Brown.  $59,920 grant from Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose State University.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. Spring and Fall 2006. Paul Foundoukis and Ryan Jones were Transit Fellows during Spring and Summer 2006; Ryan Jones and Monica Langenhan were Transit Fellows for Fall 2006. State funding (pass-through of federal money) : $30,000 for Spring and Fall 2006.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. Spring and Fall 2005. Clayton Macdonald and David Snell were Transit Fellows during Spring and Summer 2005; Paul Fondoukis as a Transit Fellow for Fall 2005. State funding (pass-through of federal money) : $30,000 for Spring and Fall 2005.

 

“A Geographic Analysis of Transit Performance: Part 2, Using a Cross Sectional Analysis of FTIS to Identify Factors Leading to Superior Transit Performance.” Greg Thompson, P.I., Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office, July 2004-June 2005. $59,002.

 

“Involving the Community in Defining and Evaluating Visions for Taltran’s Future.” Greg Thompson, Studio Leader. Studio; client is Taltran, a part of the City of Tallahassee. August 2004 - May 2005. $30,000.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. Spring 2004. Samuel Scheib was a Transit Fellow; Fall 2004. Clayton Macdonald and David Snell Transit Fellows. State funding: $30,000 for Spring and Fall 2004.

“A Study to Evaluate Assumptions in the Light Rail Policy Debate,” Greg Thompson, P.I., Council on Faculty Research and Service (COFRS), Florida State University, Summer 2002. $8,000.

“Transit Involvement in Development Review,” run through Business School Marketing Institute; client is Florida Department of Transportation Public Transit Office. 2001-2002 academic year. My involvement is $7,000.

 

“Transit Operations Study,” Greg Thompson, P.I.. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. 1998-1999 academic year. $35,000.

"The Impact of Transit Accessibility on the Labor Force Participation Rate of At-Risk Groups," Greg Thompson, Principal Investigator.  U.S. Department of Transportation through the National Urban Transit Institute. This ran through March 1997. Federal funding: $40,274.

“Removing Economic and Political Barriers to Transit Oriented Development,” working through Florida Institute for Marketing Alternative Transportation for the Public Transit Office of the Florida Department of Transportation, summer 1998. My part: $5,000 plus expenses.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. 1998-99 Academic year. State funding: $21,000.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. 1997-98 Academic year. State funding: $23,000.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. 1996-97 Academic year. State funding: $14,200.

"Determinants of Transit Usage and Mode Choice," Greg Thompson, Principal Investigator.  U.S. Department of Transportation through the National Urban Transit Institute. Ended March 1996. Federal funding: $55,577.

"Evaluating Land Use Methods for Altering Travel Behavior," U.S. Department of Transportation through the National Urban Transit Institute. Greg Thompson and Jim Frank, Principal Investigators. U.S. Department of Transportation through the National Urban Transit Institute. Ended March 1995. Federal funding: $57,143.

"Transit Fellow Program," Greg Thompson contract administrator. Florida Department of Transportation, Public Transit Office. 1995-96 Academic year. State funding: $16,000.

Florida Institute of Government, Florida Megatrends Project, 1994.  This was a small grant for which I wrote an issues paper based on my previous research on the relationship between transportation investment, economic growth, congestion relief, and traffic stimulation. State funding: $5,000.

Florida Department of Transportation, "Transportation Policy Implications of Demographic Change," July 1991, $61,300 (PI:  Robert Weller of the FSU Center for the Study of Population; also with Walter Terrie).

 

Professional Affiliations

Member of Light Rail Transit Committee of Transportation Research Board

Transportation Research Board

Business History Society                                                                   

Lexington Group in Transportation History

 

Awards

Recipient of 1995 Teaching Incentive Award, Florida State University.

Andrew W. Mellon/National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Research Fellowship for a year's residence at the Hagley Museum and Library, 1987-1988.

George Krambles Transit Foundation Scholarship for 1983 and 1984.          

Regents' Dissertation Fellowship for Winter Quarter 1984.

Dissertation stipend and cost support for summer 1984 from the California Railroad History Museum and Agricultural History Center, U.C. Davis.

1983 Distinguished Student Scholar Award for the School of Engineering for original theoretical work in intercity demand modeling.