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William R. Black | Faculty

William R. Black Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography

Office: SB 112
TEL: 855-9414
Email: black@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., 1969, University of Iowa

Research

  • Sustainable Transportation
  • Transportation Planning, Modeling and Policy

Current Projects

  • Sustainable Transportation for Planners and Policy-makers, New York: Guilford Press (forthcoming, 2009)

Representative Publications

Books

  • Transportation: A Geographical Analysis, New York: Guilford Press,June 2003.
  • Social Change and Sustainable Transport, edited with Peter Nijkamp.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, December 2002.
  • Railroads for Rent: The Local Rail Service Assistance Program.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Recent Articles

  • “A New Approach to Distributing Urban Trips: Realistic Representations of Roving with Ranges and Randomness.” Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference of the Chinese Institute of Transportation, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.
  • “La Invetsigacion Sobre Transporte A Ambos Lados Del Atlantico: estrategia Y Alcance,” with Pter Nijkamp and Aura Reggiani, in Las Redes De Transporte Desde Un Enfoque Multidisciplinar, edited by Juan Carlos Martin, Aura Reggiani and Piet Rietveld, Pamplona: Thomson, Civitas, 2007, pp. 127-149.
  • “From Global Warming to Sustainable Transport, 1989-2006,” with Noriyuki Sato. International Journal of Sustainable Transport, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2007, pp. 73-89.
  • “Sustainable Solutions for Freight Transport,” to appear in Globalized Freight Transport: Intermodality, E-Commerce, Logistics and Sustainability, Thomas R Leinbach and Cristina Capineri (eds.) , Edward Elgar Publishers (forthcoming 2006).
  • “ICT, Innovation and Sustainability of the Transport Sector,” with Marina van Geenhuizen (University of Delft),  European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (EJTIR), Vol. 6, No. 1, 2006, pp. 39-60. 
  • “Towards New Transatlantic Transport Research: The STELLA-STAR Project on the Move,” with Peter Nijkamp and Aura Reggiani. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (EJTIR), Vol. 6, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-6.

Service

  • Member of the Board of Editors, Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy, 2005-
  • Member of the Board of Editors, International Journal of Environment  and Pollution, 2000 -
  • Member of the Board of Editors, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2000-
  • Member of the Board of Editors, Journal of Transport Geography, 1998 -

Student Theses

  • Takatsugu Kobayashi, doctoral candidate, dissertation in progress
  • Bradley Lane, doctoral candidate, dissertation in progress
  • Philip Roth, doctoral candidate, dissertation in progress