Bio/CV
Daniel Chatman examines how transportation systems and land use jointly shape travel behavior, economic opportunity, and urban equity, with a focus on policies that are intended to reduce driving and increase the use of sustainable travel modes. He is best known for empirical studies that disentangle built environment effects from residential self-selection, evaluations of congestion-priced parking and transit-oriented development programs, recent work on ride-hailing and pandemic-era transit use, and efforts by California state agencies to estimate how affordable housing developments reduce vehicle miles traveled. Using survey experiments, quasi-experimental designs, and policy evaluation, his research seeks to demonstrate whether and under what conditions state and local transportation and land use policies perform as intended, increasing social welfare and equity, or inadvertently reducing them.
Before joining UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design in the Department of City & Regional Planning, Chatman was an assistant professor of urban planning and policy and director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
