Transportation Alumni Win Second Rapkwin Award in Three Years

Urban Planning alumni Jeff Brown ( Ph.D. Urban Planning) and Daniel Hess (Ph.D Urban Planning), and Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, won the Chester Rapkin Award for the best Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) paper for 2004 for their study of university transit pass programs. The title of their paper,

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