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 3rd, 2009 at 7:28 am
The truck train seem like a halfway decent idea, freight trains that can separate and go to individual places. But with a lot of the concepts shown there… can you imagine how fat we would get? Riding around on moving sidewalks and only having to walk 10 feet to the desk at work… But my personal favorite from the video? “On entering the city, the family separates. Father to his office, Mother and Son to the shopping center.”
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am
Interesting how everyone remains so skinny while sitting on their ass in a car all day long.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 pm
One of your most interesting postings. Would I love to be able to go X-country at 160 MPH on something like what they showed– in a car not a train. A good solid 20 hour drive could get one from New York to California.
Perhaps our density has betrayed this dream. Most of what they showed were “wide open spaces.”
December 4th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Can the bridgemaking machine (2:15) really support itself on an arch with only one abutment?
December 4th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Aren’t these fantasies still shown at every DOT Christmas party? Highway escalators, nonstop farm-to-market cargo carriers, never any traffic, and “no driving responsibilities”- – so what went wrong?
December 4th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Jack–
here’s what I think went wrong.
Let’s say this film was made 50 years ago. As of 2009, the average posted speed has changed very little. Imagine if what they were showing, in all its glory, still only operated at limits of from 55 to 75 mph. We would not be satisfied. The film, throughout, uses the allusion of speed.
How to get to limits of 150 mph? Bottom line, just like the fabled Autobahn, driver ability. Mr. Vanderbilt should give some press to the intriguing book American Autobahn, if he has not yet.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Perhaps one of the film’s biggest mistake is to assume significantly lower energy costs for construction, operation, and maintenance of these systems. That “atomic utopianism” call is spot on.
December 12th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I have a couple of thoughts. The first is to wonder how anyone would have been naive to watch this thing and think it could ever depict a plausible future reality.
The second, though, is to think about how many of the ideas in the film have come to pass.
Rear-view video cameras–check
Dashboard displayed interactive maps–check
Programmed travel routes–check
People at work participating in conferences by “television”–check
Ever-expanding commuting distances (and times)–check.
We’re not there yet, and we pretty clearly never will be, but much of what we have now would have seemed like fantasy to us forty or fifty years ago.