Research Abstract
G.J. (Pete) Fielding is a Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. As a founding faculty member of UCI and its Institute of Transportation Studies, Dr. Fielding is internationally recognized for his research on highway management and the evaluation of transit performance. He is the author of almost 100 professional articles and books on road pricing, toll roads, and transit, including Managing Public Transit Strategically. His current research deals with congestion pricing and the management of toll roads in Southern California. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. M.A., University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Research Interests
Urban economics, transportation economics, transportation geography, public transportation,transportation management, road pricing.
Selected Publications
Congestion Pricing and the Future of Transit. Journal of Transport Geography 3, 4, December 1995, pp. 239-246.
How to Franchise Highways. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 27, 1993, pp. 113-130. (with Daniel B. Klein)
Performance Evaluation for Bus Transit. Transportation Research 19A, 1, 1985, pp. 73-82. (With M.E. Brenner and T.T. Babitsky)
Structuring Citizen Involvement in Freeway Planning. Highway Research Record 380, 1972, pp.23-36.
Books
Managing Public Transit Strategically: A Comprehensive Approach to Strengthening Service and Monitoring Performance. ISBN-13: 9781555420680, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1987.
Programmed Case Studies in Geography. ISBN-13: 9780060420529, Harper & Row, New York, 1974.
Geography As Social Science. ISBN-13: 9780060420512, Harper & Row, New York, 1974.
Professional Articles
High Occupancy/Toll Lanes: Phasing in Congestion Pricing a Lane at a Time. Reason Foundation, Policy Study 170, 1993. (with D.B. Klein).
How to Franchise Highways. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 27, 2, 1993, pp. 113-130. (with D.B. Klein)
Measuring Transit Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis. Transportation Research A, Vol. 25A, 3, pp. 223-30, 1992 (with X. Chu and B.W. Lamar).
Private Toll Roads: Acceptability of Congestion Pricing in Southern California. Congestion Pricing Symposium. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council, Transportation Research Board, 1993, Vol.1.
Restructuring Land Transport in New Zealand. Transport Reviews 12, 4, pp. 271-289. (with D.C. Johnston). Abstracted in Changing Places in New Zealand: A Geography of Restructuring. S. Britton, R. Le Heron, and E. Pawson, Eds. Christchurch N.Z.: N.Z. Geographical Society, 1992, pp. 223-226.
Transit Performance Evaluation in the USA. Transportation Research A: Special Issue on Transportation Evaluation. 26A, 6, pp. 483-491, 1992.
Private Toll Roads: Learning from the 19th Century. Transportation Quarterly 46, 3, pp. 321-341, 1992 (with D.B. Klein).
Determinants of Superior Performance in Public Transit, Transportation Research Record, 1165, 1989, pp. 94-98 (with Lee Hanson).
Financial Forecasting and Annual Budgeting. George M. Guess (ed.). Public Policy and Transit System Management, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989 (with Todd G. Lee).
The Strategic Approach to Transit Management. ITS Review, 11, 2, 1988, pp 4-8.
Managing Transportation. Transportation Research, 21A, 2, 1987, pp. 85-86.
Energy Demand for Transportation 1986-2010. The Interstate Oil Compact Commission Committee Bulletin 28, 2, 1986, pp 4-7.
Transit in American Cities. The Geography of Urban Transportation, Susan Hanson (Ed.), Guilford Press, N.Y., 1986, pp. 229-246. Revised in 1994.
Typology for Bus Transit. Transportation Research, 19A, 3, 1985, pp. 269-278. (G.J. Fielding, M.E. Brenner and K. Faust)
Issues and Challenges in Transit Performance Research. Innovative Strategies to Improve Urban Transportation Performance. A. Chatterjee and C. Hendrickson (Eds.), New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1985, pp. 10-23.
Development of Incentive Contracts for Local Transit Management. Transportation Research Record, 992, 1985, pp. 47-52. (S. Mundle, J.E. Kraus and G. J. Fielding)
Performance Evaluation for Bus Transit. Transportation Research, 19A, 1, 1985, pp. 73-82. (G.J. Fielding, M.E. Brenner and T. Babitsky)
Obtaining Bus Transit Service Consumption Information Through Sampling Procedures. New Survey Methods in Transportation, F.S. Ampt, A.J. Richardson and W. Brog (Eds.), Utrecht: VNU Science Press, 1985, pp. 227-239.
Using Section 15 Data: Adapting and Evaluating the Magnetic Tape Version (G.J. Fielding, M.E. Brenner and O. de la Rocha). Transportation Research Record, 961, 1984, pp. 28-35.
California Transportation: Inventory and Prospects. California Management Review, 26: 2, pp. 100-111, Winter, 1984.
Public Transit Performance Evaluation: Application to Section 15 Data. Transportation Research Record, 947, 1983, pp. 1-6. (Anderson, S.C. and G.J. Fielding).
Changing Objectives for American Transit (Parts I and II), Transportation Reviews, (Part I) 3, 3, 1983, pp. 287-299. (Part II) 3, 4, 1983, pp. 341-362.
Performance Based Funding Allocation guidelines for Transit Operations in Los Angeles County. Transportation Research Record, 857, 1982, pp. 14-18. (Fielding, G. J., S. R. Mundle, and J. Misner)
Transportation for the Handicapped: The Politics of Full Accessibility. Transportation Quarterly, 36, 2, 1982, pp. 269-82. (Reprinted in Current Municipal Problems, 9, 2, 1982, pp. 203-217.)
Transit's Energy Effectiveness. International Symposium on Transportation System Performance: Proceedings OECD Conference, Washington, D.C., Vol. 2, 1981, pp. 11-24. (Fielding, G.J. and G.L. Thompson)
Marketing Organization and Strategies for Transit Agencies, in Marketing Public Transportation, R. K. Robinson and C. H. Lovelock, eds., Chicago: American Marketing Association Proceedings Series, 1981.
Performance Evaluation for Discretionary Grant Transit Programs.Transportation Research Board Record, 797, 1981, pp. 34-40. (Fielding, G.J. and W.M. Lyons.)
Organizational Structure and Performance: A Critical Review. Academy of Management Review, Vol. 5, 1980, pp. 49-64. (Dalton, D.R., W.D. Todor, M.J. Spendolini, G.J. Fielding, and L.W. Porter.)
Organization Theory and the Structure and Performance of Transit Agencies. Transportation Research Board Record, 761, 1980, pp. 17-20. (Fielding, G.J., L.W. Porter, D. Dalton, M.J. Spendolini, and W.D. Todor.)
Transit Management and Short-Range Planning. In Transportation Planning and Policy Decision Making, R.M. Michaels, ed., Praeger, 1979. (Everett, P.B. G.J. Fielding, and David Goss.)
Transportation Planning: Traditional Systems Approach Versus Budgetary Approach, Traffic Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2, April, 1979, pp. 165-168.
Performance Indicators for Transit Management. Transportation. Vol. 7 No. 4, December, 1978, pp. 365-379. (Fielding, G.J., R.E. Glauthier and C.A. Lave.)
The California State Transportation Plan: A Memorandum of Dissent, Institute of Transportation Studies Review, Vol. l, No. 2, February, 1978.
Relationships between Social-Psychological Variables and Individual Travel Behavior. Proceedings: Nineteenth Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Forum. Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1978, pp. 210-218. (Fielding, G.J. and T.J. Tardiff.)
Applying Performance Indicators in Transit Management. Proceedings of the First National Conference on Transit Performance, Norfolk, Virginia. pp. 115-121, September, 1977. (Fielding, G.J., R.E. Glauthier and C.A. Lave.)
Citizen Participation: An Administration Strategy for Transportation Improvement, in Transportation Planning for a Better Environment. Peter Stringer and H. Wenzel, Editors. New York: Plenum, 1977, pp. 417-428.
Consumer Attitudes Toward Public Transit. TRB Record #563. Public Transportation Planning. Washington, D.C., 1976, pp. 22-28. (Fielding, G.J., D.P. Blankenship and T.J. Tardiff.)
Demand-Responsive-Transit: An Overview of Integrated Systems. Paratransit, TRB Special Report 164, 1976, pp. 45-54.
Implementation and Operation of Integrated Transit Services. TRB Special Report 154, 1974, pp. 48-55. (Fielding, G.J. and S.B. Grant.)
La Habra Dial-A-Ride Project. TRB Record #522, 1974, pp. 56-64. (Fielding, G.J. and D.R. Shilling.)
Dial-A-Ride: An Opportunity for Managerial Control. TRB Special Report 147, 1974, pp. 69-77. (Fielding, G.J. and D.R. Shilling)
Designing and Marketing Transit Systems with the Aid of Attitudinal Studies, in Urban and Regional Informational Systems: Information Research for an Urban Society. Proceedings of the URISA Conference, San Francisco,1973, pp. 82-95. (Fielding, G. J., D.E. Benson and T.J. Tardiff.)
Community Involvement in Highway Planning and Design, Proceedings of a Panel Discussion, January, 1973. U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., 1972.
Structuring Citizen Involvement in Freeway Planning, Highway Research Record, No. 380, 1972, pp. 23-36. Abstracted version reprinted in First Annual Public Works Environmental Conference, Professional Engineers in California Government, 1972, pp. 1-3.
Transportation Impact Research: Problems of Location Decisions at the Community Level, Annals of Regional Science, 4:2, l971, pp. 117-126.
Locating Urban Freeways: A Method for Assessing the Community Consequences in Highway Improvement, in Geographic Studies of Urban Transportation and Network Analysis, Frank Horton, editor, Northwestern University Studies in Geography, No. 16, 1968, 76-101. Abstract republished in Proceedings, Twenty-Second California Street and Highways Conference, University of California, Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering, Berkeley, 1970, 7-8.
Computerized Instruction in Undergraduate Geography, Washington, D.C., Association of American Geographers, Commission on College Geography, Technical Paper No. 6, 1971. (Joint editor.)
Using Computers for Undergraduate Instruction, in Computerized Instruction in Under-graduate Geography, (op. cit.) pp. 1-20. (Fielding, G.J. and K.W. Rumage.) 1971.
Using Computers for Instruction, in Computer-Assisted Instruction in Geography, Washington, D.C., Association of American Geographers, Commission on College Geography, 1969, pp. 1-8. (Fielding, G.J., R.E. Huke, and K.W. Rumage.)
The Town that Wanted a Freeway: A CAI Unit Examining the Impress of the Political Process on Spatial Distributions, in Computer Assisted Instruction in Geography, Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, Commission on College Geography, l969, pp. 79-114.
Computer-Assisted Instruction in Geography, Journal of Geography, 67, 8, 1969, pp.474-483.
The Role of the State in the Modernization of Rural Areas: A Case Study of New Zealand's Northern Province, California Geographer, 8, 1967, pp. 135-149.
Mejeribrug I Californian, Kulturgeografi, No. 92, pp. 153-158, 1965.
The Role of Government in New Zealand Wheat Growing, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 55:1, pp. 87-97, March, 1965, pp. 135-149.
The Bay of Plenty Littoral, New Zealand Geographer, 21:2, pp. 95-112, 1965. (Fielding, G.J. and J.B. Buckland.)
State Assisted Private Land Development in Northland, Proceedings Fourth, New Zealand Geography Conference, Dunedin, pp. 113-120, 1965.
Agriculture on the East Coast, New Zealand Geographer, 20:1, pp. 193-94, 1964.
The Los Angeles Milkshed: A Study of the Political Factor in Agriculture. Geographical Review, 54:1, pp. 1-12, 1964.
Dairying in Cities Designed to Keep People Out. Professional Geographer, 14:1, pp. 12-17, 1962.
Sheep Farming in New Zealand: A Review. New Zealand Geographer, 19:1, pp. 160-169, 1962.
Commercial Orcharding in New Zealand. New Zealand Geographer,15:1, pp. 42-60, 1959.
Electronic Road Pricing in Southern California: Policy Obstacles to Congestion Pricing. Paper prepared for the International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Transportation and Traffic Management. Singapore, 1994. (with Xuehao Chu).
Professional Societies
Transportation Research Board, NAS/NAE
Assoc. American Geographers