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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July 7th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Me and al lot of my collegues (transport specialists) still tend to overvalue the traffic flows in rush ours and connecting this to commuting between home and work locations. Research has shown that in the Netherlands this type of traffic is only around 12,5% of total traffic and this rate is declining. Most motives for travelling are connected with family (home-school, family visits etc.) and recreation. I think we mostly ignore this phenomenon, because the government doesn’t have much influence on the choices made by induviduals in their family circle. We have a fair deal of influence on the standard commuting relations.
When I look at my own situation, it is also true that for most of these trips the car is the only realistic mode of transport. traveling by public transport with my family is expensive and time comsuming, the bike is only attractive up to 7 or 8 kilometer range. Also most of these trips are made in evening hours and weekends, when congestion is not that heavy (yet) and public transport supply at these times is at a minimum.
Jan-Albert de Leur
traffic specialist – Heerhugowaard, the Netherlands
July 8th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Actually, local governments have more influence on family travel than we realize, through infrastructure. When I was a child, I had a large area within which I could walk and bike safely to friends’ homes, school, the recreation center, the library, a movie theater, and shops. A child in post-1970 suburbia has to go a lot farther to get to anything useful, and may have to be driven because subdivisions feed onto busy arterials that are not safe for children to bike on.
If you build small parks with baseball or soccer fields, scattered throughout a community, and if you form leagues based on geography (neighborhoods, school attendance areas), then a child could walk/bike to the “home field”, for an average of half of the games in which s/he participated. “Away” games would require transportation by driving (or bus). If instead you build large multi-field/multi-sport recreation complexes out on the edge of town (because that’s where large parcels of inexpensive land are), then virtually all children have to be driven to virtually all league games. Even if you have neighborhood playing fields, if you don’t form leagues based on geography, you get a lot of driving.
Given the number of foreclosed and abandoned houses, I wonder whether it might make sense to look for playing-field-sized clusters of abandoned houses in suburbia, buy them, tear them down, and redevelop the land as small neighborhood recreation parks within subdivisions. Yes, including space for the visiting team’s parents to park their cars. But I’m sure the rest of the neighborhood would object to the prospective traffic.
Ed Hillsman
USF, Tampa, FL