Career
He has authored or co-authored 4 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of transportation. His most widely cited works 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.
His travel behavior research was featured in the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt.
Levinson is the director of the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive and editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He is also the chair of streets.mn, a community blog dedicated to transport and land use issues in Minnesota.
Levinson, David and Ajay Kumar (1994) The Rational Locator: Why Travel Times Have Remained Stable. Journal of the American Planning Association, Summer 1994 60:3 319-332.
Levinson, David (1998) Accessibility and the Journey to Work.
Journal of Transport Geography 6:1 11-21. Yerra, Bhanu and David Levinson (2005) The Emergence of Hierarchy in Transportation Networks. Annals of Regional Science 39(3) pp.
541–553.
Levinson, David (2005) Micro-foundations of Congestion and Pricing: A Game Theory Perspective. ''Transportation Research part A Volume 39, Issues 7-9, August–November 2005, Pages 691-704.
