Guide to the Martin Wohl papers, 1919-2000s
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Special Collections and Archives
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Martin Wohl papers must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Preferred Citation
Martin Wohl papers, C0174, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Damian Kulash in 2009.
Processing Information
Processed by Jesse Gastelle in 2010. EAD markup completed by Jordan Patty in 2009. Additional EAD markup completed by Jesse Gastelle in 2010.
Biographical Information
Born in 1930 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Martin Wohl studied and wrote about transportation economics for more than 30 years. He received a master's degree in engineering from MIT in 1960 and a doctorate in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. He worked in the Department of Commerce during the Kennedy Administration and taught at Harvard University for two years following that. He later returned to Washington, D.C., to head the transportation studies department at the Urban Institute in 1969, and in 1972, he accepted a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University. He is most recognized for "The Transportation Problem" (1965), the book he co-authored with John R. Meyer and John F. Kain. He died in 2009 at his home in Fairfax City, Virginia.
Scope and Content
This collections contains writings, records, photos, and scrapbooks of one of the founders of transportation economics, Martin Wohl. The majority of the collection focuses on Wohl's work as a transportation economist, but the records and photographs depict Wohl and his family and friends throughout his life.
The first series contains essays, newspaper articles, journal articles, books, and reviews surrounding Wohl's work in urban transportation and traffic engineering (written both by and about Wohl). Also in this series are his records, including degree work (bachelor's and master's theses, Ph.D. dissertation), interviews with Wohl, clippings, and correspondence, including letters to magazine and newspaper editors. Much of the professional correspondence contains information on the publication of his books (including copyrights), and there are also files with copies of reviews of his books The Urban Transportation Problem and Traffics Systems Analysis. Cities analyzed in the collection include Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. The second series consists of photographs, mostly black and white snapshots. The subjects include family, military service, West Point, and Cambridge, and Wohl himself. The third collection contains two unbound scrapbooks that contain photographs and emphemra from Wohl's life mostly from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Arrangement
Organized into three series.
Series 1: Subject Files, 1958-1993 (Box 1-7) Series 2: Photographs, 1919-2000s (Box 8) Series 3: Scrapbooks, 1930s-1960s (Box 9-10)Related Material
Special Collections and Archives holds many other transportation-related collections.
Index Terms
- Wohl, Martin.
- Local transit--United States.
- Transportation engineering--United States.
- Transportation--United States--Planning.
- Photographic prints.
- Scrapbooks.
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Contents List
Contains essays, newspaper articles, journal articles, books, and reviews surrounding Wohl's work in urban transportation and traffic engineering (written both by and about Wohl).
- Box: 1
Folder: 1
20th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Conference of AAA motor Clubs,1972
- Box: 1
Folder: 2
A Study for the Improvement of Traffic Conditions At the Boston University Bridge
- Box: 1
Folder: 3
Applications of Simulation to Highway Traffic Design,1963
- Box: 1
Folder: 4
Applications of Symbolic Models and Simulation In Traffic Engineering,1960
- Box: 1
Folder: 5
Awards/Certifications,1946-1983
The Society of the Sigma Chi,Chi Epsilon Fraternity, The National Society of Professional Engineers, Massachusetts Registered Professional Engineer, MIT B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering, MIT Education Council Member, MIT Sustaining Fellow Founding Life Member
- Box: 1
Folder: 6
Clippings,1958
- Box: 1
Folder: 7
Clippings,1959
- Box: 1
Folder: 8
Clippings,1960
- Box: 1
Folder: 9
Clippings,1961
Jan-Feb-March
- Box: 1
Folder: 10
Clippings,1961
April
- Box: 2
Folder: 11
Clippings,1961
May-June-July-August
- Box: 2
Folder: 12
Clippings,1961
Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec
- Box: 2
Folder: 13
Clippings,1962
- Box: 2
Folder: 14
Clippings,1963
- Box: 2
Folder: 15
Clippings,1964
- Box: 2
Folder: 16
Clippings,1965
- Box: 2
Folder: 17
Clippings,1966
- Box: 2
Folder: 18
Clippings,1967
- Box: 2
Folder: 19
Clippings,1968
- Box: 2
Folder: 20
Clippings,1969
- Box: 2
Folder: 21
Clippings,1970
- Box: 2
Folder: 22
Clippings,1971
- Box: 2
Folder: 23
Clippings,1972
- Box: 2
Folder: 24
Clippings,1973-1977
- Box: 2
Folder: 25
Clippings,1978-1988
- Box: 3
Folder: 26
Copyright,1958-1967
Development Of A rational For Transportation Investment, Preliminary Notes On Advanced Highway Engineering, Urban Transportation Myths, Vehicle Speeds and Volumes Using Sonne Stereo Continuous Strip Photography
- Box: 3
Folder: 27
Department of Transportation/Commerce Papers,1963-1981
- Box: 3
Folder: 28
Development of Rationale for Transportation Investment,1967
- Box: 3
Folder: 29
Dr. Martin Wohl's Records,1947-1966
- Box: 3
Folder: 30
Essays [1 of 2],1966-1976
- Box: 3
Folder: 31
Essays [2 of 2],1966-1977
- Box: 3
Folder: 32
Evaluation of the US National Capital Transportation Agency Report
- Box: 4
Folder: 33
Harvard Transportation Research Program Papers [1 of 2],1965-1966
- Box: 4
Folder: 34
Harvard Transportation Research Program Papers [2 of 2],1965-1967
- Box: 4
Folder: 35
From Private to Public Transit,2002
- Box: 4
Folder: 36
Improvement of Bus Service Between Washington and Portions of Virginia,1962
- Box: 4
Folder: 37
Institute of Traffic Engineers,1958
- Box: 5
Folder: 38
Joint Highway Research Project,1960-1968
- Box: 5
Folder: 39
Letters to Dr. Wohl,1961-1977
- Box: 5
Folder: 40
Letters to Editors,1966-1987
- Box: 5
Folder: 41
Magazines,1968-1977
- Box: 5
Folder: 42
McGraw-Hill (Traffic System Analysis),1960-1971
- Box: 5
Folder: 43
Meyer-Kain-Wohl Reviews and Comments,1965-1968
- Box: 5
Folder: 44
Obituaries,1940-1942
- Box: 5
Folder: 45
Policy Proposals,1970-1972
"Assessing Prospects of Current Transport Proposals", "Analysis of Transportation Investment and Use", "Equity Considerations of Urban Transportation Planning", "Current mass-transit proposals: Answer to our commuter problems?", "Thoughts About Congestion Toll Pricing For Public Transport Facilities"
- Box: 5
Folder: 46
Preliminary notes on Advanced Highway Engineering,1961
- Box: 5
Folder: 47
Pricing As It Relates to Investment Planning, Financing, and Highway Cost Allocation
- Box: 5
Folder: 48
Private and Unregulated Carriage,1963
- Box: 6
Folder: 49
Public Transport Investment and Policy Analysis,1978
- Box: 6
Folder: 50
Rand Corporation Memorandums,1963-1969
"Alcohol and Traffic Accidents", "Safety In Transportation: The Role of Government, Law, and Insurance", "Emergency Medical Care and Traffic Fatalities", "Vehicle Safety: Why The Market Did Not Encourage It and How It might Be made To Do So", "Modeling the Traffic Safety System, Recent Land-Use Trends In Forty Eight Large American Cities", "A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Traffic Safety System Measures", "Putting The Analysis and Evaluation Of Traffic Safety Measure Into Perspective"
- Box: 6
Folder: 51
Rand Corporation Papers,1967-1968
"Another View of Transport System Analysis", "Notes on Transient Queuing Behavior, Capacity Restraint Functions and Their Relationship to Travel Forecasting" (2 copies), "An Economic Re-Evaluation Of The Proposed Los Angeles Rapid Transit System", "A Not So Common View of the Ground Transportation Problem", "New Directions For Passenger Demand Analysis and Forecasting"
- Box: 6
Folder: 52
Route 128 Study,1958
- Box: 6
Folder: 53
The Urban Transportation Problem,1974
- Box: 7
Folder: 54
Technology and urban Transportation,1962
- Box: 7
Folder: 55
Traffic Systems Analysis for Engineers and Planners,1967
- Box: 7
Folder: 56
Traffic System Analysis (Reviews and Comments),1967-1969
- Box: 7
Folder: 57
Transportation Research Board,1979
- Box: 7
Folder: 58
Urban Institute Reprints,1970
"Congestion Toll Pricing For Public Transport Facilities", "Assessing The Prospects of Current Transit Proposals" (2 copies), A Methodology For Forecasting Peak and Off-Peak Travel Volumes" (2 Copies), "Urban transport We Could Really Use", "The Urban Transportation Problem: A Brief Analysis of Our Objectives and the Prospects for Current Proposals", "The Practicalities of Determining Marginal Delay Times and Costs" (2 Copies), "What Kind of Transport Will the Urban Public Use - Today and Tomorrow?", "The Junk Vehicle Problem: Some Initial Thoughts"
- Box: 7
Folder: 59
Urban Institute Working Papers,1969-1970
"Towards Better Public Transport Financing, Pricing and Investment Decisions", "What Kind of Transport Will The Urban Public Use - Today and Tomorrow?", "A Methodology For Forecasting Peak and Off-Peak Travel Volumes"
- Box: 7
Folder: 60
Wohl Hendrickson Book Reviews,1984-1993
Consists of photographs, mostly black and white snapshots. The subjects include family, military service, West Point, and Cambridge, and Wohl himself.
- Box: 1
Folder: 1
5th MIT Class Reunion,1958
Includes marked overlay labeled: "Each dot = 1 Male classmate (Bob Anslow was not included)"
- Box: 1
Folder: 2
Cambridge, Massachusetts,1980s
- Box: 1
Folder: 3
Martin Wohl,1923-2000s
- Box: 1
Folder: 4
Friends and Family,1919-2000s
Anne Wolf, Stanley S. Wohl,
- Box: 1
Folder: 5
Hutzler Calendar, Annapolis,1955
- Box: 1
Folder: 6
West Point,1973