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UIC News Release University of Illinois at Chicago Office of Public Affairs (MC 288)
September 28, 2009 Media Contact: Anne Brooks Ranallo, (312) 355-2523, aranallo@uic.edu
Transportation Expert Named Head of Urban Planning Department An expert on urban transportation has been named head of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kazuya Kawamura, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, has written more than 50 papers, articles and reports on transportation issues, including freight, transportation-land use interactions, economic impacts of transportation, accessibility measures and congestion pricing. Kawamura joined the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs in 1999. As a researcher in its Urban Transportation Center, he has studied freight operations and policies extensively. He has managed projects funded by more than $1 million in external grants. Kawamura serves on the urban freight and economic development committees of the National Academies' Transportation Research Board. UIC ranks among the nation's top 50 universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center. A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds of programs to improve the quality of life in metropolitan areas around the world. For more information about UIC, please visit www.uic.edu |