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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April 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
“Where does everyone go in Kansas?”
They are on their way to the next state. No one stops in Kansas.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I rode (on bicycle) through part of south eastern Kansas recently and found that many of the roads are not exactly paved. Dirt roads and crumbling highways are all featured on their maps. And on the state highways, despite what the average daily traffic may have been, it’s still far too much for a bicyclist to deal with while riding.
April 4th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
1) You are making fun of a state and you obviously know nothing about the state and the people who call it home.
2) You are not thinking critically about the popular misconception about Kansas. As a reader of your blog that makes me cautious regarding your future writings.
3) What is your point exactly? Is it that you prefer states that are nothing but megalopolises?
April 5th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
That “joke” is more of a reality in Western Europe. For example, in Germany the drinking age for beer is (nominally) 16, though it is common for 14-15 year-olds to be served as well. However, the minimum age to obtain a license is 18 – and to get it, you must spend $1000-2000 on lessons and take a relatively rigorous skills test. Because of this, many Germans wait until they are in university to get a license.
Meanwhile, here in Texas I was driving with a parent at age 15 with literally no road experience. At 16, I was driving on my own with zero formal lessons. To obtain my license, my parents checked off a sheet – which is regularly falsified – saying they had “taught” me for at least 20 hours. My mom made me take an easy, no-highway 10-minute in-car test at the DMV, which is actually optional (at the parents’ discretion).
All this, and at age 20, having lived or spent extensive time in Asia, South America, and Europe (where the drinking ages normally from 15-18 and are laxly enforced) I feel like a 2nd-class citizen in my own country, where I can’t even enter the vast majority of bars or lounges when with my 21 and 22-year-old friends. As a side note, I rarely drink or drive anyway, and NEVER in combination.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Tom, in many midwestern states where there is a heavy agricultural presence the landscape is essentially divided with some sort of road every mile. This means that smaller states such as Iowa, Kansas, etc. end up having lots of roads. States like CA, while large have heavy concentrations of roads in urban areas and large swaths of land with no roads at all.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I work for the DOT in Kansas, and use the “3rd in the nation” stat in speeches and presentations all the time. The over 140,000 miles of road stems from a heavy agricultural economy, very flat terrain, and a severe lack of statewide transportation planning in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The vast majority of these roads are dirt surfaced and are under the jurisdiction of county governments. Many counties peaked in population in the late 1800s and as such there are some real challenges in maintaining such an extensive road network. For example, there are 69 counties with less than 10 people per mile of public road, the winner being Greeley County with 1,400 people and 1,000 miles of road.
Of course most of these roads are very sparsely traveled, with less than 25 or 50 vehicles per day. But closing these roads is not easy, as people do still live on them and farm machinery still uses them. Some counties have gotten proactive and have gone to a 2-mile grid, but at this point the vast majority lack the political will to do so.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Kyle, and others, thanks for the good explanation. And this was no dig at Kansas; I was simply surprised at its high road ranking, compared to obvious candidates like Texas and California, versus its population. And Kyle’s stats are amazing; 1400 people and 1000 miles of road! Assuming the number of actual drivers is somewhere below that, that’s something like a personal mile of road for every driver. Interesting to see the Jeffersonian grid still having implications today.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Tom – no dig at Kansas perceived… As I travel throughout the state and talk about the sustainability of the local road network there are obviously certain rural sensitivites that one must acknowledge, but I’ve found that data and straight talk are usually well received.
I hadn’t thought of comparing miles to licensed drivers, I’ll look into it. I have also been thinking about ways to compare the road system to the tax base, as an aging population is another challenge that many of these rural communities face.