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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February 8th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
At the end of the movie Mean Girls the antagonist gets hit by a bus. We have been conditioned to see bus accidents and think comedy. Certainly there are other cartoons (possibly even children’s’ cartoons) where someone gets hit by a bus and the audience is supposed to laugh at it.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
“Hit by a bus” is iconic accidental death imagery. We use the phrase to when talking about how fragile our lives are: “I could walk out tomorrow morning and get hit by a bus” is the start of many a philosophical argument.
With the “bus” imagery, the agent of our demise seems collective or maybe even inanimate; a bus is ridden by a many people, driven by a faceless bus driver few of us would imagine being.
It’s interesting how different it feels from the phrase “hit by a car,” which involves a more intimate scale and some imagined particular other individual, the driver.
February 9th, 2010 at 7:02 am
That’s a classic “pedestrian crossing in name only” Far too many lanes, no island to wait on, and who the hell puts a bus lane in the middle of the road between the left turn lanes like that?
Now granted, she shouldn’t have been dashing across against the light like that, in the first bit of the video she nearly gets taken out by a couple of cars, so she was cutting it far too close. But still, she would have been OK had there not been that counterintuitive bus lane. She had passed the cars waiting to turn left, common sense says that after that you have to look for traffic coming from the other direction, not watch for busses coming from the same direction.
Of course even if she had been crossing with the light, experience has shown that crossing like that never have even close to a long enough walk light, you’ll always end up either stranded in the middle or running in fear the last half.
February 9th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Also note the sidewalk. Hard to tell how wide it is, but it has to be pretty narrow, and is bordered on one side by a concrete wall. With the traffic screaming by inches from you on the other side, it would be an immensely unpleasant place to walk. Uncomfortable place to walk means only people who absolutely have to walk there will do so. Lower level of walking traffic means drivers are not use to seeing people walking, so the few that do don’t have the critical mass to impinge on the drivers awareness. Increased chance of collision because the drivers are not looking for walkers.
February 9th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
It looks like a typical BRT configuration: nothing outright peculiar about it so long as one obeys the signals. These are appearing in most cities around the world. I do agree that the cross-section is too wide, but in this case that wouldn’t have had much effect.
The bus lanes are to the left of the left-turn lane because if you were to cross the left-turn lanes over sooner: you’d have to control that crossing — which would mean you’d need turn lanes to get into the turn lanes.
There are plenty of things which aren’t conducive toward encouraging pedestrian travel here, but this collision appears to be almost completely the pedestrian’s fault. She violated the signals & rushed across an active travelway: most of the time you can do it and live, but it only takes one mistake.
I’m a bit irked by the community which says that pedestrians are blamed for everything but are actually never at fault… sure they are. Doesn’t mean they *always* are — drivers have their share of boneheaded moves, too — but we’re all human & we all do dumb things regardless of our mode of travel.
February 9th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
I don’t know if I’d call that a “Typical” BRT configuration. My understanding is that BRT lines are suppose to run on their own lanes, completely separate from normal traffic. Much of the advantage of BRT is lost if you have to wait at the same stop signals and deal with the same rush hour as the rest of the cars on the street. (to say nothing of the delay caused by hitting someone.)
People are just not attuned to a lane layout in which there is a lane of traffic moving in the same direction as the left turning traffic to the left of the turn lane, it’s counter intuitive and anything but a completely controlled intersection is going to have accidents all the time as drivers focus on the oncoming traffic while being blind to the traffic moving up on their left.
Here’s a fun little video of the Houston LRT to illustrate the point. Every one of these drivers is making an illegal turn and are totally in the wrong, but the fact remains that they failed to see and take into account a freaking train that was often running right beside them prior to the crash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2rdGX4JYc