Urban Congestion

Urban congestion effects every person living in a city of any reasonable size. [Lewis Lehe](http://lewislehe.com/) joins us in this episode to share his work on downtown congestion pricing. We explore topics of how different pricing mechanisms effect congestion as well as how data visualization can inform choices. You can find examples of Lewis's work at [setosa.io](http://setosa.io/). His paper which we discussed during the interview is [Distance-dependent congestion pricing for downtown zones](http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vz1b9rs). On this episode, we discuss State of California data which can be found at [pems.dot.ca.gov](http://pems.dot.ca.gov/).

Guest

Lewis Lehe: Since October 2018, I have been assistant professor in the transportation systems group of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research is about travel in cities and usually involves economics. I am from around Birmingham, AL.