P. Christopher Zegras

Zegras teaches graduate-level courses in urban transportation planning, statistics, and land use-transportation planning in the Department of Urban Studies at MIT, where he has also co-taught urban design and planning studios and Practica in Beijing, Santiago de Chile, and Mexico City. He currently serves as the MIT Lead for the MIT-Portugal Program Transportation Systems Focus Area. He is also a member of the Campus Energy Task Force of the MIT Energy Initiative.

His research interests include the influence of the built environment on individual travel behavior, transportation infrastructure and system financing, developing indicators of sustainable transportation, comparative analyses of metropolitan transportation systems, and mitigating transportation greenhouse gas emissions. On these and other related topics, he has consulted widely, including for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Canadian, German, US, and Peruvian Governments, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the United Nations Center for Regional Development. Zegras previously worked for the International Institute for Energy Conservation in Washington, DC and Santiago de Chile and for MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment.

He holds a Master in City Planning and a Master of Science in Transportation from MIT and a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, also from MIT. He was the recipient of a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Dissertation Fellowship, an MIT Presidential Fellowship, and a US DOT Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship.

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