About the Authors
Dr. Ariadna Reyes
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Affairs and Planning. College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs. The University of Texas at Arlington.
Dr. Ariadna Reyes is an Assistant Professor in Planning at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs. She teaches planning, sustainable communities, green cities, and transportation courses. Before this, she was a research associate at the Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2) and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Global Shifts Program at Penn’s Perry World House. She earned a Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture in 2018. She received the Fulbright-Garcia Robles and Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) grants as a doctoral researcher. Her research provides a comprehensive approach to housing, transportation, and sustainability. Her study on the transportation burdens of low-income communities in Mexico City has been published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Urban Studies, and Transportation Research Part D. Her current research will reveal the transportation and climate injustices that low-income residents of color face in North Texas.
Contributing Authors
SOHEIL SHARIFI-ASL
Ph.D. Student, Urban Planning & Public Policy, UTA
Soheil is a Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs. Holding a master’s and bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the University of Tehran and completing his dissertations in transportation, Soheil is interested in urban transport, transportation equity, transportation infrastructure planning, public transit planning and modeling, transportation big data, and statistical models.
LADAN MOZAFFARIAN
Ph.D. Student, Urban Planning & Public Policy, UTA
Ladan Mozaffarian is a Ph.D. student of Urban Planning and Public Policy (UPPP) at The University of Texas at Arlington. Ladan completed her Master of Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture from SBU in Tehran, Iran. As a graduate research assistant (GRA), Ladan has worked on different research projects at the Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions, and Dollars (CTEDD).
