Michael Montilla

Michael A. N. Montilla

Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Assistant Professor
michaelmontilla@ufl.edu

Biography

Michael A. N. Montilla is a graduating Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and a researcher at the California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH). His research focuses on how emerging transportation technologies affect cities, urban transport, and planning/design processes. Much of ongoing work engages with questions regarding how public electric vehicle (EV) chargers can enable more sustainable forms of automobility in areas with limited residential parking, and how autonomous vehicle (AV) use is changing recurring travel costs, public data availability, and urban form. He also researches the local economic impacts of Brightline high-speed rail station development, and the changes to automobile use and ownership that followed the introduction of app-based ride-hailing. Originally from Miami, he holds a Master’s of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), and an undergraduate economics degree from Harvard. Before his Ph.D. studies, he served as the Urban Planning Program Manager, and as an instructor at Columbia University. Outside of transportation, he is actively engaged in historic preservation, and currently sits on the City of Berkeley’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. In his free time, he relaxes by composing music, painting, traveling, and attempting to cook.

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