Professor Mitchell L. Moss is the Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation and Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban Policy and Planning at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He teaches and does research on the role of technology and transportation in metropolitan regions, and has recently co-authored a series of reports on the emergence of the “super commuting.” Prior to becoming director of the Rudin Center, Professor Moss served as director of NYU’s Taub Urban Research Center from 1987 to 2003. He has directed research projects for the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce and leading private corporations. Professor Moss has been on the faculty of NYU since 1973 and served as Chairman of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts from 1981 to 1983.

Professor Moss’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, New York Daily News, and The New York Observer. From 1983-1994, he served as Deputy to the Chairman of Governor Cuomo’s Council on Fiscal and Economic Priorities. In 2001, he served as an advisor to the mayoral campaign of Michael R. Bloomberg. He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on the federal policies to aid communities in recovering from disasters.