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Rachel Weinberger

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Rachel Weinberger, Ph.D. has over 30 years of transportation planning experience in the public and private sectors and in academia. An internationally recognized expert in sustainable transportation, her specializations include travel behavior, land use transportation interactions, economic impacts of the transportation system, and parking policy. She is also known for her work in developing innovative and econometrically robust methods of studying transportation problems.

She is the vice president for research strategy at Regional Plan Association, where she also holds the Peter W. Herman Chair in Transportation. She is the founding principal at Weinberger & Associates. And she has taught Introduction to Transportation Planning at Columbia GSAPP since 2019.

Rachel has published extensively in the areas of transportation policy and travel behavior and has been invited to speak about her work in cities as disparate as Ahmedabad, Boise, Budapest, Guangzhou, Miami, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Zurich.

Rachel holds the degrees Master of Urban Planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York, Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning also from the University of California, Berkeley.

An avid cyclist and urbanist, she resides in Brooklyn with her two children.

Courses

Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
PLAN6434‑1 Fall 2025
Introduction to Transportation Planning
Rachel Weinberger
204 Fayerweather
TH 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
10784