Daniel G. Chatman
Land use and transportation planning; public transportation and agglomeration economies; household travel behavior and residential choice.
Dan Chatman examines how transportation systems and land use jointly shape travel behavior, economic opportunity, and urban equity, with a focus on policies that are intended to reduce driving and increase the use of sustainable travel modes. He is best known for empirical studies that disentangle built environment effects from residential self-selection, evaluations of congestion-priced parking and transit-oriented development programs, recent work on ride-hailing and pandemic-era transit use, and efforts by California state agencies to estimate how affordable housing developments reduce vehicle miles traveled. Using survey experiments, quasi-experimental designs, and policy evaluation, his research seeks to demonstrate whether and under what conditions state and local transportation and land use policies perform as intended, increasing social welfare and equity, or inadvertently reducing them.
Before joining UC Berkeley's Department of City & Regional Planning, Chatman was an assistant professor of urban planning and policy and director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
Selected Publications
Montilla, Michael, Matthew Hui, and Daniel G Chatman. How ride-hailing services influenced vehicle use and ownership across the Boston metropolitan region. Transportation, 2025.
Chatman, Daniel G., Seva Rodynansky, Marlon Boarnet, Andre Comandon, Breitling Snyder, Kieran Patel, and Jon Atkins. Assessing the Quantification Methodology for the State of California Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program. UC Berkeley: Institute of Transportation Studies, 2025.
Chatman, Daniel G., Elisa Barbour, Tamara Kerzhner, Michael Manville, and Carolina Reid. Policies to Improve Transportation Sustainability, Accessibility, and Housing Affordability in the State of California. UC Berkeley: Institute of Transportation Studies, 2023.
Parker, Madeleine E.G., Meiqing Li, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Hassan Obeid, Drake Hayes, Karen Trapenberg Frick, Daniel A. Rodríguez, Raja Sengupta, Joan Walker, and Daniel G. Chatman. Public transit use in the United States in the era of COVID-19: Transit riders’ travel behavior in the COVID-19 impact and recovery period. Transport Policy, 2021, 111: 53-62.
Cochran, Abigail L. and Daniel G. Chatman. Use of app-based ridehailing services and conventional taxicabs by adults with disabilities. Travel Behaviour and Society, 2021, 24: 124-131.
Santana Palacios, Manuel, Abigail Cochran, Corwin Bell, Ulises Hernández Jiménez, Eleanor Leshner, Francisco Trejo Morales, and Daniel G. Chatman. Bus rapid transit arrives in Barranquilla, Colombia: Understanding a changing landscape through residents' travel experiences. Travel Behaviour and Society, 2020, 21: 131-139.
Chatman, Daniel G., Ruoying Xu, Janice Park, and Anne Spevack. Does transit-oriented gentrification increase driving? Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2019, 39 (4), 482-495.
Chatman, Daniel G., Andrea Broaddus, and Anne Spevack. Are movers irrational? On travel patterns, housing characteristics, social interactions, and happiness before and after a move. Travel Behaviour and Society, 2019, 16: 262-271.
Chatman, Daniel G. and Michael K. Manville. Equity in congestion-priced parking: A study of SFpark, 2011 to 2013. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, July 2018, 52 (3): 239-266.
Chatman, Daniel G, Robert B. Noland, and Nicholas Klein. Firm births, access to transit, and agglomeration in Portland, Oregon, and Dallas, Texas. Transportation Research Record, 2016, 2598: 1–10.
Chatman, Daniel G. Estimating the effect of land use and transportation planning on travel patterns: Three problems in controlling for “residential self-selection.” Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2014, 7 (3) 47-56.
Chatman, Daniel G. Does TOD need the T? On the importance of factors other than rail access. Journal of the American Planning Association, 2013, 79 (1): 17-31.