April 9, 2008.
California Office of Traffic Safety Summit
San Francisco, CA.
May 19, 2009
University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Bloomington, MN
June 23, 2009
Driving Assessment 2009
Big Sky, Montana
June 26, 2009
PRI World Congress
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 27, 2009
Day of Architecture
Utrecht, The Netherlands
July 13, 2009
Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP)
Phoenix, AZ.
August 12-14
Texas Department of Transportation “Save a Life Summit”
San Antonio, Texas
September 2, 2009
Governors Highway Safety Association Annual Meeting
Savannah, Georgia
September 11, 2009
Oregon Transportation Summit
Portland, Oregon
October 8
Honda R&D Americas
Raymond, Ohio
October 10-11
INFORMS Roundtable
San Diego, CA
October 21, 2009
California State University-San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center
San Bernardino, CA
November 5
Southern New England Planning Association Planning Conference
Uncasville, Connecticut
January 6
Texas Transportation Forum
Austin, TX
January 19
Yale University
(with Donald Shoup; details to come)
Monday, February 22
Yale University School of Architecture
Eero Saarinen Lecture
Friday, March 19
University of Delaware
Delaware Center for Transportation
April 5-7
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
McMurrin Lectureship
April 19
International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (Organization Management Workshop)
Austin, Texas
Monday, April 26
Edmonton Traffic Safety Conference
Edmonton, Canada
Monday, June 7
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Wednesday, July 6
Fondo de Prevención Vial
Bogotá, Colombia
Tuesday, August 31
Royal Automobile Club
Perth, Australia
Wednesday, September 1
Australasian Road Safety Conference
Canberra, Australia
Wednesday, September 22
Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s
Traffic Incident Management Enhancement Program
Statewide Conference
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Wednesday, October 20
Rutgers University
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
Piscataway, NJ
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre
Injury Prevention Forum
Toronto
Monday, May 2
Idaho Public Driver Education Conference
Boise, Idaho
Tuesday, June 2, 2011
California Association of Cities
Costa Mesa, California
Sunday, August 21, 2011
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Attitudes: Iniciativa Social de Audi
Madrid, Spain
April 16, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Gardens Theatre, QUT
Brisbane, Australia
April 17, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Centennial Plaza, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
April 19, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne, Australia
January 30, 2013
University of Minnesota City Engineers Association Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
January 31, 2013
Metropolis and Mobile Life
School of Architecture, University of Toronto
February 22, 2013
ISL Engineering
Edmonton, Canada
March 1, 2013
Australian Road Summit
Melbourne, Australia
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December 19th, 2008 at 9:34 am
FWIW, your blog is very readable from my mobile phone. I’m entering this from the road… albeit from inside a movong bus.
Texting becomes illegal in California on Jan 1. I think it’s unfortunate that – as your news clip shows – common sense just doesn’t work and legislatures feel compelled to codify every single activity of dangerous behavior
December 19th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
There should be a standard set for distracted driving that is open ended and police updated with guidelines of what to look for as technology and in car distractions change. Making a law for every dumb thing seems unnecessary, lets just make it illegal to do dumb things in the car generally.
December 19th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
On my cycle to work yesterday a SUV pulled up alongside at a junction. I glanced inside to see 2 women with a Bollywood movie playing on a screen between them in the dashboard. I thought 9am was a little early to watch a movie. I wonder if this is legal in the UK?
December 20th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Frittz: “common sense just doesn’t work and legislatures feel compelled to codify every single activity of dangerous behavior”
Well, I still remain unconvinced safety/danger is the political issue. I speculate that if using a cellphone while behind the wheel made you driver _faster_, then there would be no uproar, no demands for studies, any studies that were conducted that show a danger would be happily ignored, and no laws would be passed against the practice.
Gary Kavanagh: “There should be a standard set for distracted driving that is open ended and police updated with guidelines of what to look for as technology and in car distractions change.”
Distraction has been killing people in cars more or less forever, and probably people on horses before then. Is there any evidence “technology” has increased the kill/injury rate? There is also stuff like this:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/08/06/distracted.drivers/
In essence, ~70% of observed distractions are the tech-free things like picking your nose.
Thought experiment:
You are driving, on your cellphone, talking with someone. You have slowed to 80km/h (to the irritation of the type A drivers behind you, expecting a minimum of 100km/h), and proceed along the road for 5km in deep conversation about differential equations or something.
You are driving along the same 5km section of road, at 100km/h, no one cares about you … except you are looking at all the road signs, the flashing TV billboards, checking out the babes in other cars, fiddling with your CD player, giving the finger to that jerk who just cut you off, and generally acting as you normally do.
Which would be the safer drive? Near as I can tell, no one knows the answer to questions like this. If this ignorance is true, are any laws against specific behaviors justifiable?