| Assistant Professor
Office: 154 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-5671
E-mail: cao@umn.edu
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cao/index.htm
Areas of expertise: land use and transportation interactions; transportation planning and policy; travel behavior analysis and demand modeling; mobility of transportation-disadvantaged people; neighborhood design and public health
Jason Cao is an assistant professor with the regional policy and planning area. His current research mainly focuses on land-use and transportation planning in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. He seeks to answer interrelated questions about how transportation investments influence land-use development, how land-use patterns shape an individual's travel behaviors, and how land-use and transportation policies can be used to mitigate traffic congestion and improve our environment.
Cao previously worked as an associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. His work has appeared in journals spanning urban planning, public health, and transportation. He has been published in Environment and Planning, Journal of the American Planning Association, American Journal of Health Promotion, Transportation Research, and others.
Cao received an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in civil and envrionment engineering with a specialization on transportation planning and engineering from the University of California-Davis. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In 2006, he received the Wootan Award from the U.S. Council of University Transportation Centers for the best transportation policy/planning dissertation in the United States.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
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Spring 2008
PA 8202 - Networks and Places: Transportation, Land Use, and Design
Fall 2007
PA 5031 - Empirical Analysis I
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