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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September 7th, 2010 at 9:30 am
I think you’re spot on about false hazards reducing vigilance, the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” problem. Wouldn’t the effort be better spent on designing the street to slow drivers?
September 7th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Since I live in the area, I need an opinion: would it be wrong, very wrong, or hilarious to drive through this hologram with unwitting passengers aboard?
September 7th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Oh, one thing that I haven’t seen well-explained in other articles was the technology at hand. While it’s described as a “hologram,” the Globe & Mail article’s description of the actual effect sounds like it’s a forced-perspective trompe a l’oeil painted onto the roadway, much like this Julian Beever work.
September 7th, 2010 at 10:18 am
I spent some time in Maryland, USA this summer. In Silverspring, there were permanent speed/radar cameras installed in advance of school zones (on arterials) in at least two locations. They were overtly obvious and there were even painted, transverse lines on the lanes at the location where the photo would be taken if you were speeding. EVERYONE slowed down at those zones and maintained a slower speed through the school area.
September 7th, 2010 at 11:47 am
This is a horrible trick to play on drivers. Why not put up one of those speed detector signs, “Your speed is XX MPH”. I have found that I do slow down if I see I am over.
September 7th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
That’s just crazy!! Someone might seriously have a heart attack when one of those things pops up suddenly. Although I do have to chuckle a bit at the thought of Ryan’s idea of just driving through one with passengers aboard – they would be completely aghast for sure!
September 7th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
This is just another case of over-engineering: one invention (like fast cars that kill) makes another invention (like airbags) necessary. It’s in the same bag as the pedestrian flags found in Port Angeles (among other cities): were the street in front of the ferry terminal not built like a highway in the first place, they wouldn’t need to install special flags at cross walks for people to carry to get across the road safely.
Here’s a better over-engineered solution: a speed trap activated by cars that travel above the speed limit that fires a paintball at your car from a cannon mounted at the side of the road. Now driver’s would have a direct way of measuring the cost of their speeding (car washes) rather than the indirect cost of human life and community destruction. An added bonus would be that every else would know, at least until the car were washed, that the occupant is a bad driver (shame).
Facetious jokes aside, I agree with Brent that designing the road to make slower driving necessary would be wiser.
September 7th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
TERRIBLE idea. I wonder how long it will take for people to just start running over everything: “Oh, look. There’s another one of those ‘kid chasing a ball in the road’ holograms…” **SPLAT**
September 8th, 2010 at 2:01 am
I agree with the other posters. It is not a good idea. Motorists will soon get used to it and ignore it. Change the layout of the street so that cars have to slow down, eg: chicanes (with bike paths on the outside of them) and dead-ends.
September 8th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Exactly what I was thinking Scott. Relative to infrastructure changes, this idea is cheaper but raises other risks with misinformation.
September 9th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
I was discussing this yesterday, and came up with a much better idea than a holographic child – a holographic speed bump! Makes drivers slow down, but no maintenance issues with plough trucks.
September 9th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
My favorite idea is one that I heard about a while ago: retractable speed bumps.
A radar device measures the speed of approaching vehicles and raises the speed bump out of the road if they are speeding. The bump stays retracted in the road for vehicles traveling within the speed limit.
September 13th, 2010 at 6:19 am
Looks pretty dumb to me. It’s a sticker on the road and there’s now a video posted showing the approach. Just what we need; fake hazards that distract you from the real hazards of the immediate environment.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/09/child-in-the-road-il.html
September 13th, 2010 at 7:52 am
I think this is a terrible idea. So now we will be running over holograms during a yellow light ! and what about those who have had the unfortunate reality of hitting a child on the road, this will truly trigger PTSD.
September 15th, 2010 at 3:18 am
If there were a series of stickers that were regularly switched, using a variety of images to keep people guessing, it might be more effective. But road design is the better, more permanent solution.
A similar, albeit smaller, 3D image is used near a Danish school: http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/video/index/id/32744456/