Organizational Affiliations:
Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, SJSU

Work Background:
Dr. Bossard developed and taught courses focusing on the use of economic analysis and quantitative measurement techniques for dealing with urban and regional planning problems. He created microcomputer spreadsheet programs for cohort component population projection and gravity model applications. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) with thirty years of professional planning experience. He studied, under the sponsorship of the California Department of Transportation, the effects of density on transit usage and residential trip generation, using the 1991 Caltrans Statewide Travel Survey. He has studied land use/transit interface in Japanese new towns and has resided in East Asia and Europe for six of the past fifteen years. He has pioneered microcomputer spreadsheet/GIS applications for planning and has lectured on spreadsheet/GIS applications in Hong Kong, China, England, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Canada since 1988. He is co-editor of Spreadsheet Models for Urban and Regional Analysis. Dr. Bossard is on leave for the 1997-1998 academic year to write a book on "Envisioning Neighborhoods Using Replicate Maps, Charts and Photos," while serving as a Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Sri Lanka.

Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University (City and Regional Planning)
M.S., University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee (Economics)
B.S., University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee (Economics)

Research Interests:
* Urban/Regional/State Transportation Planning
* Data & Geographic Information Systems
* Finance & Economics
* International Study Exchanges

Professional Memberships:
American Planning Association
A.I.C.P.
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)

Publications:
"Urban Roads and Walkways in Japan: Impressions of an American Visitor," Traffic Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 1984 pp. 36-37.