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 29th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
A few times in the past year or so, I’ve been ever-so-slightly annoyed with bus drivers who park the bus at a stop and then get off to talk on their cell phones. In retrospect, kudos to them! I will never, ever be annoyed with a driver who *stops* to use their phone…
April 29th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
As a motorcyclist who rides on a highway that often gets these types of rear end-causing backups, I shutter to think what would have happened if the last vehicle in the queue had been a bike instead of a car.
THIS is why we need to legalize lane-splitting.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
The bus drivers got caught because of the in-bus cameras. What about the rest of us who don’t drive buses and aren’t monitored? How many rear end accidents collisions are there where the driver quickly puts the phone away afterwards?
April 30th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Alarming? Not at all. I see cell phone use (and distracted driving) everyday. Typically it doesn’t end with an accident but only with the irresponsible driver running a red light. Cyclists like me (and the motorcyclist) remain particularly vulnerable and don’t have airbags to save us.
As Matt states “we should show this tape over and over again”. Not enough, we need to change our irresponsible habits and that usually means new laws and stronger enforcement procedures.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:49 am
Lane splitting sounds like a great idea. Time restrictions could also be beneficial.
Aside from mismanagement of traffic signals and speed limits by the Road Commission of Macomb County, I think a large part of our congestion in Michigan comes from overloaded trucks that for some reason travel very frequently during commuting hours. After that, I think it’s the slow and lazy, the tired, the cell phone talkers and texters, and the hung-over and drunk that cause our congestion.
Not only is texting and talking dangerous, I think it is decreasing fuel economy and increasing drive times (though decreased volume from unemployment is trumping those effects at the moment). The talking and texting uses up our mental bandwidth, delaying our reaction times both for starting and stopping. It reduces road capacity because the driver uses a larger following distance (though not large enough to be as safe as normal). Also, the driver is slower to get up to speed, meaning many fewer vehicles make it through each traffic signal.
On the other hand, most of the talking and texting is probably caused by the inadequate flow of traffic. People are compelled to use the excess mental bandwidth they have. Unfortunately, that mental capacity is no longer available when it becomes needed.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:58 am
When I drive I don’t ever take my eyes off the road (excepting those split seconds when we look at a thing or two like a speedometer, etc.). What is difficult for me is to be a passenger talking to a driver and they turn to talk to me and look at me, for seconds at a time! I stop the conversation and tell them to look at the road! In fact, I am looking at the road for them in the mean time until they get their head turned back in place! Some people just don’t get it, and they don’t even have a cell phone or texting involved. They apparently just don’t sense the danger of taking eyes off the road, to avoid that accident waiting to happen.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:16 am
“People are compelled to use the excess mental bandwidth they have.”
“Excess mental bandwidth?” This is a joke, right? I’m always surprised when I see someone who can walk and chew gum at the same time.