Eric Morris

Eric A. Morris is a Professor of City and Regional Planning. His primary focus is on how transportation and urbanization contribute to our activity patterns, access to opportunities, and well-being and quality of life. He also conducts research in the field of transportation history, and his co-authored book "The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities" has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Other interests include transportation equity, shared mobility, transportation finance, transportation policy, transportation and the economy, goods movement and logistics, and transportation and economic geography. He wrote a column on transportation for the New York Times for several years. He was also the Associate Editor of Access magazine, and a Handling Editor for the Transportation Research Record journal. He teaches courses on transportation planning, transportation and the economy, cities and technology, and urban economics. Before returning to academia he worked as a travel writer, a sports writer, and a television writer and producer.