Alfred B. Henson, Ph.D., is a professor and urban planner in the Houston Metropolitan Area. He is a native Houstonian who has studied architecture, construction technology, urban planning, and environmental policy. He attended the University of Houston and Texas Southern University where his coursework led to professional, academic, and civic service in the Houston Metropolitan Area.
Alfred Henson has provided community development support for public and private land planning activities for over 30 years. He has worked with the TxDOT plans, housing programs, residential design, community engagement, and development feasibility at the private, public, and institutional capacity. He has over a decade of disaster recovery experience and has provided geospatial services for government-funded housing plans and programs.
Alfred Henson has contributed to community service, business development, city management, and academia. His tenure as a business developer, as well as a GIS Manager at the City of Houston advanced design and planning software applications to assist decision-makers with addressing problems and communicating best practices with solutions. He currently practices as a Principal Planner with AB Land Planning and provides planning and development consulting, with technological and innovative support for state agencies, local government, local agencies, and Houston’s communities within Houston’s super neighborhoods.
One of Alfred's most continuous contributions to society is motivating and training students to utilize emerging technology and data science as tools to answer questions from the local perspective to the global perspective.
He’s currently an Assistant Professor at TSU's Transportation Studies Department, and most recently worked as an Instructional Professor at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering. His teaching focuses on transportation and GIS logistics for maritime transportation and supply chain logistics. He's also taught as Visiting Professor at Prairie View A&M and as an Adjunct Professor at Texas Southern University in construction science, community development, and urban planning programs.