17 Facts About Jarrett Walker

Jarrett Walker was born on 1962 and is an American transit consultant and author.

Jarrett Walker has a consulting firm based in Portland, Oregon, that has worked on projects across North America, Europe, and Oceania.

Jarrett Walker later worked as a planning intern at TriMet.

In 2011, Jarrett Walker published Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives with Island Press.

Jarrett Walker has written several peer-reviewed papers, including "To Predict with Confidence", published in the Journal of Public Transportation in 2018, and "Purpose-Driven Public Transport," published in the Journal of Transport Geography in 2008.

Jarrett Walker has been published in the peer-reviewed Shakespeare Quarterly.

Jarrett Walker has written for Bloomberg CityLab and The Atlantic.

In December 2017, Jarrett Walker attracted media attention after publicly feuding with billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Jarrett Walker argued that an area's physical features significantly impact a transit network's ideal design and potential ridership.

Jarrett Walker has argued that transit agencies' focus on predictions and new technologies distracts from necessary improvements to existing transportation systems.

Jarrett Walker has stated that when working as a consulting planner, he views his role as "only stating geometric facts", or presenting potential designs for the agency employing him to consider.

Jarrett Walker argues that while ridership is unpredictable, access analysis captures the way that the design of the network influences ridership.

Jarrett Walker argues that access is a measure of many other things that people value, including the economic viability of the city and the experience of personal freedom.

Jarrett Walker has criticized claims that modern ride-share services like Lyft and Uber are equivalent to or a potential replacement for public transit, arguing that ride-share services are much less efficient than even a relatively low-density bus service.

Jarrett Walker's proposed redesigns have sometimes faced criticism from city residents, advocacy groups, or news agencies.

In Dublin, Jarrett Walker proposed consolidating the complex bus network into central "spines" with more frequent bus service.

Jarrett Walker graduated with a bachelor's degree from Pomona College in 1980 and received his PhD in theater arts and humanities from Stanford University in 1996.