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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March 24th, 2010 at 3:31 am
Tom, not completely on topic here but relevant to the issues you deal with… Have you read ‘Death on the Streets’ by Robert Davis (isbn 0-948135-46-8)? A fascinating essay on how cars & roads in the UK have contributed to a lot of the social and safety problems we now face.
One of his central points is that the seat belt laws here have resulted in drivers ‘risk-compensating’ by driving faster instead of safer. This results in no net safety benefit for car occupants and hugely increased risk to vulnerable road users.
I couldn’t remember if you’d mentioned his work in Traffic (I’ve lent it to my neighbour – a local council traffic planner – so I can’t check!). If you haven’t read it – DO! It’s an eye opener and poses the worrying point that if we don’t do something drastic about cars like making them fully automatic, we will continue to suffer from the carnage and car-centricity we currently have on the roads.
March 28th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Tom, your blog has many interesting things and I keep reading it from time to time.
About this post, the research on Dr. Hof says,
“…it’s pushed along by smooth-flowing fluid behind it…”
“…Dr. Hof and his colleagues realized that introducing an eddy into this smooth-flowing zone would eliminate the turbulence in front of it…”
Vehicular traffic flow is likened and sometimes modeled using some principles from gas flow. But the key difference is that traffic flow is anisotropic i.e. a vehicle does not respond to conditions behind it but only in front of it. Imagine a congested stretch of a roadway. Now if there is a free flowing traffic behind it, what would you expect ? The vehicles in the smooth will also enter the congested regime unlike a gas flow where the flow from behind pushes the gas in front of it.
Thanks for posting though
March 28th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Although pedestrian traffic is slightly different, I’d expect the same as vehicular traffic or even worse, a stampede