CURRICULUM VITAE
Gregory L. Thompson
June 2010
Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
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,
1988-1994: Assistant
Professor in Transportation Planning, Department of Urban and Regional
Planning,
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,
Fall 1986: Teaching
Assistant in Probability and Statistics,
1981-1986: Teaching and
Research Assistantships,
Professional Experience
5/80 to 1/81 Lead consultant, Assembly Select Committee on Mass Transit,
California State Assembly,
1/77 to 5/80 Senior transportation planner, San Diego Metropolitan
Transit Development Board (MTDB),
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,
8/70-11/72 Transit
Planner,
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.
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
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
G. L. Thompson. (2003) “Defining an
Alternative Future: Birth of the Light Rail Movement in
Transportation Research Board,
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
Gregory L. Thompson. (2001). “New Insights
into the Value of Transit: Modeling Inferences from
Gregory L. Thompson
and Thomas G. Matoff. (2000). “Network
Philosophy Affects Performance of Transit Investments in
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,
Gregory L. Thompson. (1999).
“Transportation Investment, Economic Growth, and Social Costs.” in Charting Florida’s Future, Lance
deHaven-Smith and Dena Hurst, editors.
Rebecca Miles-Doan
and Gregory L. Thompson. (1999).
"Planners and Pedestrian Safety: Lessons From
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
Gibran Hadj-Chikh
and Gregory L. Thompson. (1998). “Reaching
Jobs in the Suburbs: Tri-Rail in
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
Gregory L. Thompson. (1996). "The
Interwar Response of the Southern Pacific Company and the
Gregory L. Thompson. (1995).
"How Cost Misunderstanding Derailed the
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
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
Book
Gregory L. Thompson. (1993). The Passenger
Train in the Motor Age:
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.
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
Gregory L. Thompson. (1998).
"Buses," Neil L. Shumsky, ed. The Encyclopedia of Urban
Gregory L. Thompson. (1995). "Railroad
Transportation Services," The United
States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia,
Anne C. Venzon, editor. (
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
Gregory
L. Thompson (2007). Review of THE GREAT SOCIETY SUBWAY: A HISTORY OF THE
Gregory
L. Thompson (2006). Review of SUNSET LIMITED: THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD AND
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN WEST 1850-1930, Richard J. Orsi (
Gregory L. Thompson (2005). Review of A
RAILROAD ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1946: VOLUME 1 THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES,
Richard C. Carpenter (
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 (
Gregory L. Thompson (2003). Review of
REGULATING RAILROAD INNOVATION: BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN
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
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
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
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:
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.”
“The Multi-Destination Transit Movement in
“Globalization and
the Beginning of the Light Rail Movement in
“The Impact of
Railroads on the Early Growth of the
"Railway
Managerial Influence on the Creation of Two
"Railway
Managerial Influence on the Creation of Two
"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),
"Myth
and Rationality in Railroad Decision-Making," presented to the Coloquio
Internacional, Sobre Transporte E Industrializacion, Siglos XIX y XX,
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
G.L.
Thompson. “How Planners Used Equity to Overthrow the Established Transit Regime
in
G.
L. Thompson. “What
G. L. Thompson and J. Brown. “Explaining Variation in
Transit Ridership Change in
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,
G. L. Thompson. “How
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,
“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,
“The Impact of Transit Service Accessibility
on the Labor Force Participation Rate of At-Risk Groups,” (formal paper)
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting,
“The Mismatch
between Transit Service Design and Regional Structure,” (formal paper),
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting,
“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,
“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership
Significantly: Planning Scenarios for
“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership
Significantly: Planning Scenarios for
“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership
Significantly: Planning Scenarios for
“Transit Accessibility and The
Labor Force Participation Rate of At-Risk Groups:
"Achieving Suburban Transit Potential:
Sacramento Revisited," refereed paper accepted for presentation to the
76th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board,
"Achieving Suburban Transit Potential:
Sacramento Revisited," presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association
Collegiate Schools of Planning,
"The Interwar Response of the Southern
Pacific Company and the
"An Analysis of Suburb-to-Suburb Commuter
Rail Potential: Metrolink in
"The Equity Implications of Light Rail
Investment: The Sacramento Case," presented to the 75th Annual Meeting of
the Transportation Research Board,
"The Equity Implications of Light Rail
Investment: The Sacramento Case," presented to the Annual Meeting of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning,
"Connectivity and Transit Potential: The Sacramento Experience," presented to
the 1994 annual meeting of the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning,
"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,
"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,
"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,
"Productivity and Management
Culture: A Comparison of the Intercity
Bus and Rail Passenger Industries in
"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
"Inferring Regional Structure from a
Spatial Interaction Model," presented to the 1986 annual meeting of the
Regional Science Association,
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
“TODs Can Increase Transit Ridership
Significantly: Planning Scenarios for
"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,
"DCA Transportation Concurrency
Rule: Yielding to Developers, or
Promoting Planning Creativity?"
1993
"Getting It Right: Transportation Planning and How to Fix It," panelist at
colloquium sponsored by Sacramento Regional Transit,
"The Declining Impact of Rail Passenger
Service in the West," presented at the November 1987 meeting of the
All-University of
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,
"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
“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
"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),
“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.
“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.
"Evaluating Land Use Methods for Altering
Travel Behavior,"
"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 Department of Transportation,
"Transportation Policy Implications of Demographic Change," July
1991, $61,300 (PI: Robert Weller of the
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,
Andrew W. Mellon/National Endowment for the
Humanities Advanced Research Fellowship for a year's residence at the
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
1983 Distinguished Student Scholar Award for
the