Peter G. Flachsbart, PhD

Peter G. Flachsbart, PhD, has accrued 50 years of experience in the fields of urban planning and civil engineering. He currently holds the position of associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Since 1980, he has taught graduate courses in air quality planning and management, analytical methods in planning and public decision making, energy and environmental planning, human exposure to air pollution, and urban land use and transportation planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has also served as an adviser to students of energy policy, environmental protection, urban land use and transportation planning. At UH Manoa, he has steered the work of his department’s admissions committee since 1980 and served as an active member of other departmental, college and university committees. Dr. Flachsbart formerly held faculty appointments in civil engineering at Stanford University and in public administration at California State University Dominguez Hills, and as a senior research associate of urban and regional planning at the University of Southern California.

Since 1980, much of Dr. Flachsbart’s research at the University of Hawaii has focused on human exposure to carbon monoxide concentrations in the tailpipe exhaust emissions of motor vehicles in traffic. His research on this subject has been published in two book chapters and 12 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has also served as a reviewer of manuscripts for several peer-reviewed journals since 1981. His most notable book chapters were published in Exposure Analysis, edited by Wayne Ott, Anne Steinemann and Lance Wallace in 2007, and in Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, edited by David G. Penney in 2008. Both chapters are based on research and consulting work that Dr. Flachsbart completed for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization.

This link invites viewers to submit manuscripts to a special issue of the open access journal Sustainability, published by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Flachsbart was invited by their editorial office in Beijing, China to serve as guest editor of this special issue. This link describes the purpose and scope of the special issue, and how potential authors can submit manuscripts on specific subjects for publication by October 31, 2021.

Memberships, Awards, Creative Works and Publications

Civic: Site Visitors Pool, Planning Accreditation Board (1985-Present); Various Committees, Lutheran Church of Honolulu (1985-Present); Professional Development Officer, American Planning Association, Hawaii Chapter (1983-Present); Various Committees, Hawaii Chapter, American Planning Association (1981-Present); Manuscript Reviewer, Various Journals (1981-Present); Complete Streets Task Force, State of Hawaii Department of Transportation (2010-2011); President, Board of Directors, American Lung Association of Hawaii (2000-2001); Various Committees, American Lung Association of Hawaii (1982-2001); Vice President, Board of Directors, American Lung Association of Hawaii (1998); Board of Directors, American Lung Association of Hawaii (1990-1998, 2000-2001); Externalities Advisory Group, Hawaiian Electric (1995-1997); Lutheran Church of Honolulu Council (1985-1987); Chair, Lutheran Church of Honolulu Finance Committee (1985-1987); Air Advisory Committee, State of Hawaii Department of Health (1982-1986)

Creative Works: Contributor, Book Chapters; Contributor, Articles, Professional Journals, Newspapers

Military: Honorable Discharge, Rank of Captain, U.S. Army Reserve (1974); Officer, Transportation Corps, U.S. Army Reserve (1966-1974)

Memberships: Union of Concerned Scientists (1999-Present); International Society of Exposure Science (1994-Present); Air & Waste Management Association (1984-Present); American Institute of Certified Planners (1979-Present); Sigma Xi (1971-Present); American Planning Association (1968-Present); American Lung Association of Hawaii (1982-2001)

Awards: Grantee, American Planning Association (2013-2015); Best Reviewer Award, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (2014); Chapter President’s Council Leadership Award, American Planning Association (2013); Grantee, State of Hawaii Department of Transportation (2009-2010); Grantee, Honolulu City Council (2007-2008); Travel Awards, East-West Center (2005, 2008); Travel Awards, Hawaii Chapter, American Planning Association (1987, 1991, 2003); Travel Awards, American Lung Association of Hawaii (1998, 2001); Grantee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1980-1985, 1998-1999); Grantee, State of Hawaii Department of Transportation and Hawaii Office of State Planning (1990-1991); Travel Awards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1988, 1991); Grantee, Stanford University, Transportation Research Program (1977-1980); Grantee, Stanford University, Institute for Energy Studies (1977-1980); Travel Award, National Endowment for the Arts (1969)

Book Chapters: Who’s Who in the West – 1994-1995, 24th Edition (pub. 1993); Who’s Who in the West – 1992-1993, 23rd Edition (pub. 1992)

Areas of Expertise

Air quality planning and management

Analytical methods in planning and public decision making

Energy and environmental planning

Human exposure to air pollution

Urban land use and transportation planning