Brief Curriculum Vitae
Name: Jerry B. Schneider
Institution: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
Departments: Urban Planning and Civil Engineering
Academic Rank: Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning and Design
Degrees: BSE, 1955, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Master, City Planning, 1961, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Regional Science, 1966, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Non-academic experience: Urban Planner, National Capital Planning Commission, Washington, D.C. (1961-62); Research Associate, Regional Science Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1964-69); Staff Director, Western Office, Regional Science Research Institute (1966-70)
Consulting: General Motors Corporation, 1976-80;CH2M/Hill, 1975; Arizona DOT, 1982; The Koll Company, 1984; Criterion, Inc. 1986; King County, 1986-90; Puget Sound Regional Council, 1991; Sky Highways, Inc. 1992-94
Some recent publications:
"Development of an Expert System to Assist the Interactive Graphic Transit System Design Process," Transportation Research Record, No. 1187, September 1989, (with N. Janarthanan, 1st author).
An Assessment of the Potential of Telecommuting as a Work-trip Reduction Strategy: An Annotated Bibliography, American Planning Association Bibliography Series, No. 246, Council of Planning Librarians, Merriam Library, American Planning Association, Chicago, September 1989, 40pp. (with A.M. Francis, 2nd author).
Development of an Employer-based Ridesharing Information and Mapping System, Final Report to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Washington D.C. August 1990, 143pp. (with Yihua Xiong).
"Defining an Appropriate Strategy for the Development of Personal Rapid Systems in Major U.S. Metropolitan Areas During the 1990's," Proceedings of Transportations 2000, Snowmass, Colorado, October 1990.
"A Personal Rapid Transit Deployment Strategy to Support Regional Land Use and Rail Transit Objectives," Transportation Quarterly, 46:1, January 1992, 135-153.
"Designing Personal Rapid Transit Networks," Journal of Advanced Transit, 25:3, Winter 1991, 247-268, (with Jun Ma).
"Computer-aided Emergency Medical Service System Planning: Combining Man-Machine Interaction with a Heuristic Algorithm," Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, Orlando, Florida, 1991. (with Y. Xiong, 1st author).
Development of Methods of Analysis for Planning Transit Circulators in and around Major Activity Centers, Final Report, TransNow, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Washington, October, 1991, 330 pp. (with Soonman Hong, 1st author).
"Shortest Path within a Polygon and Best Path Around or Through Barriers," Journal of Urban Planning and Development, American Society of Civil Engineers, 118:2, June 1992, pp 65-79, (with Y. Xiong, 1st author).
Selecting and Evaluating the Number and Locations of Intermodal Stations for an Intercity High Speed Ground Transportation Corridor in the U.S., Transportation Quarterly, 47:2, April 1993, 221-245.
"Transportation Network Design Using a Cumulative Algorithm and a Neural Network," Transportation Research Record, No. 1364, (January 1993), (with Y. Xiong, 1st author).
"Designing Automated People Mover Circulator Systems for Major Activity Centers: An Interactive Graphic Approach," Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Automated People Movers, Las Colinas, Texas, March 1993, 535-545.
"Assessing the Station and Access System Design Implications of a Small Magplane System for Intercity Travel," Transportation Research Record, No. 1381, 1993, 20-31.
Website: Innovative Transportation Technologies, 1996 to present
On-line articles:
Had Enough of Auto-Dominance Yet?
Emerging Auto-Competitive Transit Technologies: A Brief Review
PRT - A Potential Urban Transport Solution, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre of the EU, July, 2001
Memberships: Regional Science Association, Transportation Research Board, National Computer Graphics Association, Advanced Transit Association, Institute for Transportation and the Environment
Current address: 1503 Brewster Court, Salem, Oregon, 97302; ph. 503-363-6029; e-mail: jbs@peak.org
Last modified: June 10, 2011