Susan Handy

Dr. Susan Handy is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and founding director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of the book Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking About Transportation.

Congestion

Opinion: It’s Time to Rethink Our Congestion Obsession

Policymakers constantly suggest that we need to spend billions of dollars and bulldoze countless acres of land to fix traffic jams. But do we?

Susan Handy

May 13, 2026