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Kristina Currans

Assistant Professor, Civil and Architectural Engineering / Mechanics | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Professor

Planning Degree Program
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$709K / $3.2M Funding
20+ Grants
40+ Publications
7+ Courses

About

Kristina Currans PhD studies the intersection between transportation and land use development. Although she was trained as a civil engineer, her workss between the transportation planning and engineering disciplines. Currans' research and teaching emphasizes the rethinking and redeveloping new data and methods for applications in practice to helcommunities plan for the places they want.

Research Area

transportation, urban planning, sustainability, transportation impact, economics, data collection, energy, consumer behavior, energy efficiency, renewable energy, trigeneration, affordable housing, transportation planning, data analysis, environmental impact, land development, policy analysis, urban mobility, public health, infrastructure, student engagement

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    What is a household?

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    Are Traffic Studies “Junk Science” That Don’t Belong in Court?

    2024
    science, research methods, legal system

    Toward an Employment-Worker Balance Index: Evaluating Accessibility Outcomes of Polycentricity, Transit Proximity and Place Typology

    2022
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    Effect of Vehicles on Personal Heat Exposure: A Pilot Study

    2022
    environmental impact, heat exposure, transportation, health impact, urban planning

    Effects of Intersection Design on Non-Optimal Behaviors of E-Scooter and Other Users

    2022
    transportation, urban planning, human factors, safety, mobility

    Households with constrained off-street parking drive fewer miles

    2022
    transportation, urban planning, parking management, household behavior, vehicle usage

    Data Files:LRT/BRT/SCT/CRT Development Outcomes: Final Phase

    2021
    transportation, urban planning, infrastructure, public transit, data analysis

    Linking Residential Parking to Automobile Transportation Impact Outcomes at a Development Level

    2021
    parking management, transportation impact assessment, residential development, automobile use, urban planning

    Injury Burden of Introducing E-Scooters: A Review of E-Scooter Injury Studies Using Retrospective Review of Emergency Department Records, 2015–2019

    2021
    transportation, public health, injury prevention, urban mobility, emergency medicine

    Regional Differences in the U.S. Real Estate Market Response towards Proximity of Fixed Route Transit Systems

    2021
    real estate, transit systems, regional differences, proximity, market response

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