Tim Strauss
Department of Geography
Phone: (319) 273-7467
Fax: (319) 273-7103
E-mail: tim.strauss@uni.edu
Web Address:
http://www.uni.edu/~strausst
Areas of Interests
- Transportation geography
- Transportation planning - planning process,
planning methodologies
- Transportation safety - especially the use of
GIS and statistical analysis to identify crash "hot spots" and analyze
potential countermeasures
Relationship between transportation and
economic development (e.g., how transportation systems affect firms'
resource allocation and location decisions, use of transportation
investment as a local development tool, how aggregate productivity is
affected, how the relationship varies over space).
Dr. Strauss is also the Education
Director at UNI for the Midwest Transportation Consortium.