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Doug Houston Receives Eisenhower Fellowship
Posted on April 24, 2006
John Douglas Houston has received a 3 year Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship from the The National Highway Institute. The objective of the award is to attract qualified students to the field of transportation and research, and advance transportation workforce development. Houston received his B.A. in from the Honors Program at the University of Texas and his M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA in 1999. He entered the UCLA doctoral program in Fall 2004.
His doctoral research will develop and encourage linkages between the fields of transportation planning, environmental science, and public health in order to better understand and respond to highly localized impacts of urban transportation systems. It will provide refined insight into the distribution of human exposures to near-roadway vehicle pollutants and will enable transportation and land use planners to more effectively understand, communicate, and respond to proximity-based health risks of high-traffic urban corridors. Urban inhabitants who reside, work, attend school, or recreate in these areas could experience exposure levels and adverse health impacts beyond those associated with ambient air pollution. This work will enable transportation and land use planners to more effectively understand, communicate, and respond to proximity-based health risks of high-traffic corridors. His research on this topic has appeared in co-authored articles in the Journal of Urban Affairs and most recently in the American Journal of Public Health.
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