Dr. Daniel Rodríguez

Biography

Daniel Rodríguez is the Chancellor’s Professor in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. His research focuses on the relationship between transportation, land development, and the health and environmental consequences that follow. His current projects include examining the behavioral, safety, and health consequences of extreme heat events, and how green spaces and air pollution can ameliorate or exacerbate these effects. He also evaluates urban climate-related adaptation and mitigation strategies such as the electrification of vehicle fleets and the implementation of low or zero emissions zones while assessing health and environmental impacts and co-benefits. A significant portion of Rodríguez’s work addresses the challenges of mobility in urban development, particularly for low-income residents. He collaborates with researchers from health, economics, engineering, geography, and public policy and has investigated changes in physical attributes of the environment and their relation to individual behavior, health, and air quality. Prior to joining Berkeley, Rodríguez was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was distinguished as a Professor of Sustainable Communities. He also served as a faculty fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and worked as a consultant for various development banks.

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