Faculty Profiles

Perl, A., Ray, R. S., & Reardon, L. (Eds.). (2025). Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy. London, UK: Edward Elgar.

Zivarts, A., & Ray, R. S. (2025). No bus to the transit board meeting: how disabled non-drivers are left out, and why we actually should be planning mobility for all. In Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy (pp. 366–380). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888784.00036

Perl, A., Ray, R. S., & Reardon, L. (2025). What value does political science bring to understanding transport policy? Insights from the Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy. In Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy (pp. 482–492). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888784.00045

Perl, A., Ray, R. S., & Reardon, L. (2025). Transportation politics and policy: a research agenda. In Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy (pp. 2–15). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888784.00008

Voulgaris, C. T., Ray, R. S., & Fischer, L. A. (2024). Transit Board Diversity and Pandemic Service Cuts in Vulnerable Communities. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241263346

Ray, R. S., Floberg, K., Price, T. S., Doolittle, S., Atkinson-Palombo, C., & Garrick, N. (2024). “There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–2013. Urban Geography, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2366676

Ray, R. S. (2024). The politics of urban transport. In Handbook of Urban Politics and Policy (pp. 504–522). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200669.00043

Ray, R. S. (2023). King County Metro’s Mobility Equity Cabinet: A Case of Co-Creation in Transportation?

Ray, R. S., Garrick, N., & Atkinson-Palombo, C. (2022). Transit-Oriented Data: The importance of data and coordination to transit-oriented urban transformation. Frontiers in Sustainability, 4. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2022.869532

Ray, R. S. (2022, January). Connecticut’s TOD Efforts Should Leverage Its Walkable Cities. Connecticut Planner, (Winter 2022), 11–14. Retrieved from https://ct.planning.org/documents/5832/CTPlanningW22.pdf

Maaoui, M., & Ray, R. S. (2022). Beyond the Grands Chantiers: Mapping the deliberative system of transport governance in Paris. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X211066557

Ray, R. S. (2021). Multiscalar Deliberative Transportation Planning. Journal of the American Planning Association, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2021.1960182

Fischer, L. A., Ray, R. S., & King, D. A. (2020). Who Decides? Toward a Typology of Transit Governance. Urban Science, 5(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5010006

McArthur, J., Smeds, E., & Ray, R. S. (2020). Coronavirus showed the way cities fund public transport is broken – here’s how it needs to change. The Conversation UK. UK.

Ray, R. S., & Ong, P. M. (2020). Unequal Access to Remote Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Los Angeles,, United States: Center for Neighborhood Knowledge.

Ray, R. S. (2020). Review: The Risk of Regional Governance: Cultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation by Thomas Skuzinski. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 40(4), 496–497. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x19826279

Ray, R. S. (2019). The Politics of Prioritizing Transit on City Streets. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2673(3), 733–742. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198119837151

Ray, R. S. (2019). Review of “Regional Governance: Cultural Theory and Intercultural Cooperation.” Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Ray, R. S., Baird-Zars, B., & Sclar, E. D. (2019). Analyzing Zoning as an Institution: Methods for Scholarship and Practice. In Zoning: A Guide for 21st Century Planning. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.

Ray, R. S. (2018). The United States: Seeking Transit Justice from Seattle to New York City. In Free Public Transit and Why We Don’t Pay to Ride Elevators. Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books.

Ray, R. S., & Higashide, S. (2018). The Path to Partnership: How Cities and Transit Systems Can Stop Worrying and Join Forces. New York, NY, United States: TransitCenter. Retrieved from https://transitcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Collaboration.pdf

Ray, R. S. (2017). Open for business? Effects of Los Angeles Metro Rail construction on adjacent businesses. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 10(1), 725–742. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2017.932

Ray, R. S. (2017, September 6). Congestion Pricing Won’t Solve New York’s Transportation Woes. Retrieved from https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/7175-congestion-pricing-won-t-solve-new-york-s-transportation-woes

Ong, P. M., Jimenez, S., & Ray, R. S. (2014). Owning up to rent burden: Boosting wages, increasing number of affordable homes would help ease pressure on renters, p. 39.

Ray, R. S., Ong, P. M., & Jimenez, S. (2014). Impacts of the Widening Divide: Los Angeles at the Forefront of the Rent Burden Crisis. Los Angeles, CA, United States: UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate.

Ray, R. S., Petrella, M., Peirce, S., Minnice, P., Puckett, S., & Lappin, J. (2014). Exploring the Equity Impacts of Two Road Pricing Implementations Using a Traveler Behavior Survey: Full Facility Pricing on SR 520 in Seattle and the I-85 HOV-2 to HOT-3 Conversion in Atlanta. Washington, DC, United States: Federal Highway Administration, US Department of Transportation.