SHERMAN L. LEWIS


 

Organizational Affiliations:
Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University, Hayward

Work Background:
Dr. Lewis wrote "Managing Urban Growth in San Francisco Bay Region" integrating discussion of land use, transportation, and transportation pricing reform. He published nine issues of "Neighborhood Systems" and is the author of the "Good Growth" proposal to use regional gas tax for several purposes including social justice and sustainable growth. He serves as an alternate on the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency and is active in CATS of Hayward to fight the Foothill freeway. He has written a long critique of this freeway and conventional computer modeling, as well as proposed new techniques of analysis. Note: Dr. Lewis is also an elected member of the Board of Directors of BART.

Education:
Ph.D., Columbia (Political Science)
B.A., Harvard

Research Interests:

  • Computer Modeling of Alternatives to New Freeways
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  • Systematic/Qualitative Comparison of Suburban/Freeway Systems with Dense/Walking Transit Systems
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  • Pricing Reform, Mode Shift, Land Use Relationships
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  • International Intercity Systemic Statistical Data