Spotlight

 

"Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices for a Multimodal Future" Book Released!

Order your copy of this new book edited by UNOTI Director John Renne and Billy Fields from Island Press and receive a 25% discount with code 5TRANSPORT at checkout. This book has been featured on the radio, television news and on Streetsblog.org. Click here for more details or to purchase. A Podcast from the March 22 book launch event and seminar featuring several of the book's authors at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, D.C. is available here.

All Things Local NOLA April: The Social Bicycling Scene

Catch the April episode of All Things Local NOLA, WGSO 990 with UNOTI's John Renne. Host Kevin Fitzwilliam talks about social bicycling in New Orleans and how to get involved with social bike groups. Also , how to stay safe and protect your bike? Today’s guests include: John Renne of UNO’s Transportation Institute, Marin Tockman of Bike Easy, Raquel Smith of Crescent City Pedalers and Bill Katzenmeyer and Josh Baer of NOLA Social Ride

Kate Lowe

Kate Lowe, PhD

Assistant Professor of Planning and Urban Studies;
Milneburg Hall, Room 390
Email: Kate.Lowe@uno.edu
Phone: 504-280-6029


 

Kate Lowe received her PhD from Cornell University in 2011. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Planning and Urban Studies Department at the University of New Orleans. Her mixed-methods research focuses on transportation policy and planning, as well as multi-level governance. She received fellowship funds from the United States Department of Transportation and the Clarence S. Stein Institute to support her dissertation research. Her dissertation analyzes how metropolitan planning organizations, state actors, and the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts program affect transit implementation. She is part of an ongoing research team examining regional governance and transit infrastructure investment in fast-growth regions. In addition, she is analyzing the links between policy and transit agency finance, while developing research on the accessibility and mobility patterns of low-income workers.

Lowe, K., Pendall, R., Gainsborough, J., & Nguyen, M. (2013, forthcoming). Ballot box planning: Implementation of rail ballot measures, The Journal of Public Transportation, 16(4).

Lowe, K. New Starts: Federal funding and local factors in transit capital funding. (2013, forthcoming). Public Works Management & Policy, 18(2), 127-144. DOI: 10.1177/1087724X12469794. Lowe, K. Neighborhood, city, or region: Deconstructing scale in planning frames. (forthcoming) Berkeley Planning Journal, vol. 24, Accepted.

Pendall, R., Gainsborough, J., Lowe, K. & Nguygen, M. (forthcoming in 2011). Bringing equity to transit-oriented development: Stations, systems, and regional resilience. Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects, Volume 4. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Ross, L., Downs, T.J., Tejani, A., Dezan, R. & Lowe, K. (2010). Trust, preparation and transparency: Negotiating roles in youth-adult partnerships. Emancipatory practices: Adult/youth engagement for social and environmental justice.Linds, W., Goulet, L. & Sammel, A. (eds.), Sense Publishers.

Downs, T.J. Ross, L., Patton, S., Rulnick, S., Sinha, D., Mucciarone, D., Calvache, M., Parmenter, S., Subedi, R., Wysokenski, D., Anderson, E., Dezan, R., Lowe, K., Bowen, J., Tejani, A., Piersanti, K., Taylor, O. & Goble, R. (2009).Complexities of holistic community-based participatory research for a low income, multi-ethnic population exposed to multiple built-environment stressors in Worcester, Massachusetts. Environmental Research, 109(8), 1028-1040.

Ballot box planning: Rail referenda and coalition building (Lowe, K., Pendall, R., Gainsborough, J., & Nguyen, M.). Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, October 15, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT.

 

Bypassing equity? Equitable transit investment and regional transportation planning. Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, March 18, 2011, New Orleans, LA.

Competing arenas and bypasses: Institutional contexts for equitable regional transportation planning. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s (ACSP) Annual Conference, October 9, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Equity and transit-oriented development: Sites, lines and systems. Partners in Innovation: Including Affordable and Workforce Housing within TOD. September 27, 2010 Denver, Colorado.

Bringing equity to transit-oriented development: Stations, systems, and regional resilience (Pendall, R., Gainsborough, J., Lowe, K., & Nguyen, M.). Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects, George Washington Policy Institute, May 21, 2010, Washington, DC.

Examining federal funding and local factors through FTA’s New Starts program. Transportation Research Board's 4th International Conference on Financing Surface Transportation in the United States, May 19, 2010, New Orleans, LA.

Power in regional decision-making: Mass transit infrastructure investment. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, October 1, 2009, Crystal City, VA.

Scale as a frame in transit planning for polycentric regions. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, July 10, 2008, Chicago, IL.

Transit parking roundtable collaboration. Association for Commuter TransportationAnnual Conference, August 2006, Boston, Massachusetts.

Harnessing the benefits of community-university collaboration: Addressing environmental injustice in Worcester, Massachusetts’ built environment (Ross, L., Downs, T., Lowe, K. et al.).

The Challenge of Engagement: The 3rd Annual University-Community Partnership Conference, July 2006, Blacksburg, VA.

 
Introduction to Transportation Studies University of New Orleans, Fall 2011.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles: Urban Transportation in the United States Cornell University, Fall 2008

 
Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship, US Department of Transportation (2009-2010, 2010-2011)

Transportation Research Board Finance Committee student travel award (2010)

Clarence Stein Institute Graduate Fellowship (2009-2010)