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FINDING AID AUTHOR
Administrative Information
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Preferred Citation
Martin Wohl papers, Collection #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, Dr. 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.
Missing Title Series 1: Subject Files, 1958-1993 (Box 1-7) Series 2: Photographs, 1919-2000 (Box 8) Series 3: Scrapbooks, 1930s-1960s (Box 9-10)Related Material
Special Collections and Archives holds many other transportation-related collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Local transit -- United States
- Photographic prints
- Scrapbooks
- Transportation -- United States -- Planning
- Transportation engineering
- Wohl, Martin
Container 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).
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1
20th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Conference of AAA motor Clubs1972Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2
A Study for the Improvement of Traffic Conditions At the Boston University BridgeScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3
Applications of Simulation to Highway Traffic Design1963Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4
Applications of Symbolic Models and Simulation In Traffic Engineering1960Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5
Awards/Certifications1946-1983Scope and Contents note
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
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 6
Clippings1958Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 7
Clippings1959Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 8
Clippings1960Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 9
Clippings1961Scope and Contents note
Jan-Feb-March
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 10
Clippings1961Scope and Contents note
April
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 11
Clippings1961Scope and Contents note
May-June-July-August
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 12
Clippings1961Scope and Contents note
Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 13
Clippings1962Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 14
Clippings1963Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 15
Clippings1964Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 16
Clippings1965Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 17
Clippings1966Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 18
Clippings1967Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 19
Clippings1968Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 20
Clippings1969Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 21
Clippings1970Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 22
Clippings1971Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 23
Clippings1972Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 24
Clippings1973-1977Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 25
Clippings1978-1988Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 26
Copyright1958-1967Scope and Contents note
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
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 27
Department of Transportation/Commerce Papers1963-1981Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 28
Development of Rationale for Transportation Investment1967Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 29
Dr. Martin Wohl's Records1947-1966Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 30
Essays [1 of 2]1966-1976Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 31
Essays [2 of 2]1966-1977Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 32
Evaluation of the US National Capital Transportation Agency ReportScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 33
Harvard Transportation Research Program Papers [1 of 2]1965-1966Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 34
Harvard Transportation Research Program Papers [2 of 2]1965-1967Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 35
From Private to Public Transit2002Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 36
Improvement of Bus Service Between Washington and Portions of Virginia1962Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 37
Institute of Traffic Engineers1958Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 38
Joint Highway Research Project1960-1968Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 39
Letters to Dr. Wohl1961-1977Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 40
Letters to Editors1966-1987Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 41
Magazines1968-1977Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 42
McGraw-Hill (Traffic System Analysis)1960-1971Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 43
Meyer-Kain-Wohl Reviews and Comments1965-1968Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 44
Obituaries1940-1942Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 45
Policy Proposals1970-1972Scope and Contents note
"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"
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 46
Preliminary notes on Advanced Highway Engineering1961Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 47
Pricing As It Relates to Investment Planning, Financing, and Highway Cost AllocationScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 48
Private and Unregulated Carriage1963Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 49
Public Transport Investment and Policy Analysis1978Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 50
Rand Corporation Memorandums1963-1969Scope and Contents note
"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"
- Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 51
Rand Corporation Papers1967-1968Scope and Contents note
"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"
- Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 52
Route 128 Study1958Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 53
The Urban Transportation Problem1974Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 54
Technology and urban Transportation1962Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 55
Traffic Systems Analysis for Engineers and Planners1967Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 56
Traffic System Analysis (Reviews and Comments)1967-1969Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 57
Transportation Research Board1979Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 58
Urban Institute Reprints1970Scope and Contents note
"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"
- Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 59
Urban Institute Working Papers1969-1970Scope and Contents note
"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"
- Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 60
Wohl Hendrickson Book Reviews1984-1993Scope and Contents note
Consists of photographs, mostly black and white snapshots. The subjects include family, military service, West Point, and Cambridge, and Wohl himself.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1
5th MIT Class Reunion1958Scope and Contents note
Includes marked overlay labeled: "Each dot = 1 Male classmate (Bob Anslow was not included)"
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2
Cambridge, Massachusetts1980sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3
Martin Wohl1923-2000sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4
Friends and Family1919-2000sScope and Contents note
Anne Wolf, Stanley S. Wohl,
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5
Hutzler Calendar, Annapolis1955Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 6
West Point1973Scope and Contents note
Contains two unbound scrapbooks that contain photographs and emphemra from Wohl's life mostly from the 1930s through the 1960s
- Mixed Materials box: 1
Scrapbook1930s-1960sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2
Scrapbook1930s-1960sScope and Contents note