In an interview, ITE Honorary Member Herbert S. Levinson talked about how he got into the transportation engineering and planning profession. Levinson said that at an early age in elementary school, he noticed the traffic problems at intersections. He spent time drawing tracks on butcher paper as he observed roadway patterns and the rapid transit lines in Chicago's northwest side where he grew up. After graduating from the Yale Bureau, he went to work for Wilbur Smith, starting to write specifications for traffic signals and doing shopping center designs and layouts. Over the next 28 years as a full-time associate at Wilbur Smith and Associates, where he had become senior vice president, he developed a broad range of experience in almost every aspect of the transportation and traffic. He began publishing extensively, ultimately gaining credibility in the research side of the profession working on many papers for the Transportation Research Board and ITE.
Herbert S. Levinson, P.E., Dr. ENG, NAE
ITE journal ; 85 , 5
2015
Article (Journal)
English