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Joe Grengs coordinates the transportation planning concentration and teaches courses in Transportation Policy, Geographic Information Systems, and Urban and Regional Theory. He is a certified planner and a registered professional engineer with work experience in both the private and public sectors and in international settings. He is an affiliate of the National Poverty Center and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Michigan. Grengs researches the relationships between transportation policy and urban development patterns. He is currently studying how suburbanization influences poverty concentration and social inequality, with a focus on recent changes in national transportation policy. Other research interests include methods of spatial analysis, urban politics, and new forms of social movements emerging in the field of transportation.