Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of Universidad de Concepción.
He is an industrial civil engineer and holds a master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his PhD in Transportation Engineering and Planning from University of Toronto.
RESEARCH AREAS
His research focuses on transport planning and engineering, the development of transport behaviour and demand models, and the study of the social context of transport demand. He also addresses public transport policies and transport-related land use.
LATEST 10 PUBLICATIONS
Vecchio, G., Castillo, B., Villegas, R., Rojas, C., Steiniger, S., & Carrasco, J. A. (2023). Elderly Walking Access to Street Markets in Chile: An Asset for Food Security in an Unequal Country. Sustainability, 15(5), 3893. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15053893
Lizana, M., Carrasco, J. A., & Victoriano, R. (2021). Daily activity-travel and fragmentation patterns in the weekly cycle: evidence of the role of ICT, time use, and personal networks. Transportation Letters, 14(4), 396-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2021.1879623
Parady, G., Frei, A., Kowald, M., Guidon, S., Wicki, M., Van Den Berg, P., Carrasco, J. A., Arentze, T., Timmermans, H., Wellman, B., Takami, K., Harata, N., & Axhausen, K. W. (2020). A comparative study of contact frequencies among social network members in five countries. Journal Of Transport Geography, 20-00676. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000371164
Zegras, C., Leape, J., Carrasco, J. A., Navas, C., Venter, C., & Vergel-Tovar, E. (2020). Scaling Up Innovative Participatory Design for Public Transportation Planning: Lessons from Experiments in the Global South. Transportation Research Record, 2674(12), 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120940998
Jirón, P., Carrasco, J. A., & Rebolledo, M. A. D. (2020). Observing gendered interdependent mobility barriers using an ethnographic and time use approach. Transportation Research. Part A, Policy And Practice, 140, 204-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.08.018
Guzman, L. A., Peña, J., & Carrasco, J. A. (2020). Assessing the role of the built environment and sociodemographic characteristics on walking travel distances in Bogotá. Journal Of Transport Geography, 88, 102844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102844
Steiniger, S., Wagemann, E., De la Barrera, F., Molinos‐Senante, M., Villegas, R., De la Fuente, H., Vives, A., Arce, G., Herrera, J. C., Carrasco, J. A., Pastén, P., Muñoz, J., & Barton, J. R. (2020). Localising urban sustainability indicators: The CEDEUS indicator set, and lessons from an expert-driven process. Cities, 101, 102683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102683
Victoriano, R., Páez, A., & Carrasco, J. A. (2020). Time, space, money, and social interaction: Using machine learning to classify people’s mobility strategies through four key dimensions. Travel Behaviour And Society/Travel Behaviour & Society, 20, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2020.02.004
Madrid, C. P. M., Solís, R. G., Carrasco, J. A., & Huaiquimilla, C. E. B. (2019). Neoliberal Urbanization and Synergistic Violence in Postearthquake Concepción. Latin American Perspectives, 47(3), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582×19879147
Lizana, M., Carrasco, J. A., & Tudela, A. (2019). Studying the relationship between activity participation, social networks, expenditures and travel behavior on leisure activities. Transportation, 47(4), 1765-1786. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-019-09980-y
