| David Matthew Levinson | |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Workplaces: | University of Sydney |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Berkeley, University of Maryland, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Fields: | Transportation, |
| Known For: | Travel behavior, transportation planning |
David Matthew Levinson (born 1967) is an American civil engineer and transportation analyst, a professor at the University of Sydney since 2017. He formerly held the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the University of Minnesota, from 2006 to 2016.[1] He has authored or co-authored 8 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of transportation.[2] His most widely cited works [3] are on transportation accessibility and on the travel time budget. He has developed models of the co-evolution of transport and land use systems, demonstrating mutual causality empirically.[4] He is a founder of the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research.[5] In 1995 he was awarded the Charles Tiebout Prize in Regional Science by the Western Regional Science Association,[6] and in 2004, the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award.[7] His travel behaviour research was featured in the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. Levinson is the director of the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive and founding editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He is the founding editor of Findings.[8] He was also the chair of streets.mn,[9] a community blog dedicated to transport and land use issues in Minnesota, and WalkSydney,[10] a pedestrian advocacy organisation in Australia.