Dr. Golub is a professor in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University (PSU). He has twenty-five years of experience working in the advocacy and academic arenas on issues of transportation equity and justice. His research focuses on who wins and loses from transportation plans and investments, how we measure those disparities, and how academic research can assist communities to advocate for more equitable transportation systems.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Urban transportation planning, policy, finance, environmental justice, public transportation, sustainability, civil rights, regional planning, bicycle transportation, social change, Fordism
CLASSES:
USP 548: Public Transit Planning (graduate)
USP 535: Planning Methods II (graduate)
USP 456/556: Urban Transportation Policy and Problems (graduate/undergraduate)
USP 414/514: Transportation Seminar (graduate/undergraduate)
USP 544: Urban transportation planning (graduate)
RECENT PROJECTS:
Applying an Equity Lens to Automated Payment Solutions for Public Transportation, 2018-2021, Role: PI.
This project researched and evaluated practices to address equity issues in cashless fare payment systems. The project cataloged existing equity solutions implemented by public transportation agencies and reviewed existing evaluations of impacts on transit riders and developed two frameworks to evaluate the effectiveness of these equity solutions from a user and agency perspective. The team surveyed low-income riders in Gresham, OR; Denver, CO; Portland, OR; and Eugene, OR. https://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/research/project/1268
Community-based Assessment of Transportation Needs to inform City of Portland Smart Cities Plan, 2016-2017, Role: PI.
This project supported a collaboration between OPAL and Forth to look at barriers to engagement in new mobility options in East Portland. https://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/research/project/1163
Addressing Changing Demographics in Environmental Justice Analysis, State of Practice, 2017-2019, Role: PI.
This project produced a practitioner-oriented report and webinar on the state of practice for addressing changing demographics in the environmental justice analysis process across different transportation decision making phases. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/environmental_justice/publications/chng_demo/index.cfm
Research support to Portland Metro for the 2018 Regional Transportation Plan, 2015-2017, Role: Co-PI.
This project, in collaboration with researchers in South Florida, created a broad review of measures to assess the distributional effects of transportation investments on accessibility of low-income and minority populations to jobs and services, and on the availability of transportation alternatives, for use in planning decision making. Based on this research, Golub and his research assistant supported Portland Metro staff in developing their equity measures for the 2018 long-range transportation plan for the region. https://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/research/project/862/
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Golub, A., Brown, A., Brakewood, C., MacArthur, J., *Lee, S., & *Ziedan, A. (2022). Equity and exclusion issues in cashless fare payment systems for public transportation. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2022.100628
Golub, A., Satterfield, V., *Serritella, M. & *Singh, J. (2019) Assessing the barriers to equity in smart mobility systems: a case study of Portland, Oregon. Case Studies in Transport Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2019.10.002
Golub, A., Brown, L., Grant, M., McNeil, N., Ryerson, C., Gray, M., Lonsdale, S., & Levy, M. (2019). Addressing Changing Demographics in Environmental Justice Analysis, State of Practice. Federal Transit Administration. Report FHWA-HEP-19-021 https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/environmental_justice/publications/chng_demo/index.cfm
Martens, K., & Golub, A. (2018). A Fair Distribution of Accessibility: Interpreting Civil Rights Regulations for Regional Transportation Plans. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0739456X18791014
Marcantonio, R., Golub, A., Karner, A., & Nelson Dyble, L. (2017). Confronting inequality in metropolitan regions: Realizing the promise of civil rights and environmental justice in metropolitan transportation planning. Fordham Urban. Law Journal, 44, 1017. https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol44/iss4/4/
Golub, A. (2016) Is the right to bicycle a civil right? Synergies and tensions between the transportation justice movement and planning for bicycling. In: Golub, A., Hoffman, M., Lugo, A, & Sandoval, G., eds. (2016) Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for All? Routledge.
Karner, A. & Golub, A. (2015) Comparing two common approaches to public transit service equity evaluation. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2531. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2531-20
Golub, A. & Martens, K. (2014) Using principles of justice to assess the modal equity of regional transportation plans. Journal of Transport Geography 41, 10-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.07.014
Golub, A., Marcantonio, R. & Sanchez, T. (2013). Race, Space and Struggles for Mobility: Transportation Impacts on African-Americans in Oakland and the East Bay. Urban Geography 34(5): 699-728. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2013.778598