GENEVIEVE GIULIANO

Dr. Genevieve Giulianois one of the two 2017 recipients of the Walter Isard Award for distinguished scholarly achievement.

Genevieve Giulianoserves as theMargaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. She has been a Professor of Public Policy at USC since 1997. Shealso is the Director of MEDTRANS Transportation Center, a joint center of USC and Cal-State Long Beach. She has served in a number of positions at USC including Senior Associate Dean of Research and Technology and has held appointments in the Departments of Civil Engineeringand Geography at USC. Professor Giuliano received her PhD in Social Science (Transportation) from the University of California, Irvine in 1980.

Professor Giuliano has received the Transportation Research Forum Distinguished Transportation Researcher Award, the W.N. Carey Jr. Distinguished Service Award from the Transportation Research Board, the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship award from the Transportation Research Board, and theCouncil of University Transportation Centers Distinguished Contribution award. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Case Studies in Transport Policy, Research on Transportation Business and Management, and the Journal of Transport Policyand has served on the editorial boards of Urban Studies and Journal of Transport Statistics. She has served on numerous national and international committees on transportation issues. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Western Regional Science Association.

Professor Giuliano has published over 160 papers, and has presented a significant number of academic presentations. She has published in journals such as Transportation Research, Transportation, Environment and Planning, and Urban Studies. Her highest cited work has appeared in Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Professir Giuliano’s research has centered on the relationships between land use and transportation, transportation policy analysis, and information technology applications in transportation. Her current research includes the examination of relationships between land use and freight flows, development of applications for transportation system analysis using archived real-time data, and the analysis of commercial and residential development around transit stations.

The North American Regional Science Council is therefore pleased to present the 2017 Walter Isard Award for distinguished scholarly achievement to Genevieve Giuliano.