About Me
David Pritchard is a transportation planner, currently employed at Metrolinx (the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority). This is a personal website, and does not reflect his professional opinions or the opinions of Metrolinx in any way. His background is in both civil engineering and computer science, combining strong mathematical and modelling skills, keen observation of the political process, and several years of broad reading and research in land use and transportation planning.
Résumé
- Résumé for onscreen reading
- Résumé [PDF] for printing
For the curious, I have also posted an older résumé focused on my earlier career in computer graphics.
Research and Professional Interests
- Land use/transportation interaction. How does the arrangement of buildings and land uses in a city affect transportation choices, both in the short term (”How should I go there?”) and in the long term (”Where should I move my business to?”). What effect does transportation infrastructure and travel behaviour have on land development?
- Transit service performance. How can transit agencies take advantage of information systems to improve the quality of transit service, and inform planning decisions?
- Bicycle infrastructure design. What design methods offer the greatest safety benefits to cyclists, and provide the greatest potential for attracting new trips by bicycle? What can North American cities learn from the design approaches used in other parts of the world?
- Agent-based modelling. Does agent-based microsimulation provide more behaviourally robust predictions of travel behaviour than traditional aggregate modelling methods?
- Internet Transportation Information Systems. How can emerging technologies like web-based mapping and open data standards be used to deliver information about different transportation modes?
Contact
I use Google’s mail system (gmail), and my user name is drpritch. You can figure out my e-mail from that, I believe, but the spambots out there may have more difficulty. And for posterity, R is my middle initial, and that was my first university e-mail name - it’s not “doctor pritch.”
