About – Matt Nichols

Matt Nichols is Principal Transportation Planner for the City of Berkeley, California, where he supervises the city’s efforts in mobility management/TDM, carsharing, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, and transit planning.  He is a contributing author of Berkeley’s Climate Action Plan, and helped obtain  financing for the Ed Roberts Campus, a universally accessible transit-oriented development at Berkeley’s Ashby BART Station.

Matt earned a Master’s in Urban Planning from UCLA. He has worked for ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the Bay Area Air Quality Managemetnt District, and has served on the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s  “Parking Policy for Smart Growth” technical advisory committee. Matt also served as a founding member of the Board of Directors of City CarShare, the car sharing non-profit for the Bay Area.

From February-May 2010, Matt will be based in Torino, Italy as the Comparative Domestic Policy Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where he is investigating European cities that have made recent significant transit investments to compare approaches  to station area planning and multi-modal accessibility.

He is married to Margi Clarke, is the father of two boys, Kiernan and Eli. They have been living without owning a car for 6 years.