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 8th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I like the message this sends to car drivers – that pedestrian convenience is more important than making it easy for drivers to queue. It says that cars are not a natural fit on this road. I think this will have a positive affect on driver behaviour – it will slow traffic speeds and increase awareness of pedestrians.
September 8th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
If the “desire paths” are dependent on the stopping line for cars, then moving that line back would expand the pedestrian paths yet further from the intersection. Though maybe you could find something resembling a fixed point.
Of course, add cyclists and right turns on red to this mix, and it doesn’t look all that feasible even in theory.
September 8th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
While it is nice to see infrastructure designed for people that actually takes into account that people don’t walk at 90-degree angles, the implementation doesn’t quite go far enough. Notice the curve: there’s a lot of empty space between the zebra crossing and the stop line through which everyone will cross on foot anyway. Why not just keep the straight line but make the whole crosswalk wider? That is, effectively, what this design does.
The desire to use the the shortest possible path extends beyond the limited means of cutting corners at cross walks. Here in Ottawa, it is routine behaviour for people to cross diagonally across intersections by taking account of the stopped traffic North-South (for example) and the gap in through-traffic East-West. Likewise, many people cross mid-block when there is a gap in traffic because it avoids having the wait for the light once at the intersection (I suspect crossing mid-block is also perceived to be safer since ther are fewer directions from which deadly cars can emerge).
Trying to take the shortest path is actually a temporal exercise, not a spatial one. This design tries to account for a behavioural pattern without addressing the root (no pun intended) cause of the behaviour, namely the gross obstacle that is motor traffic to the person’s freedom of movement.
September 9th, 2010 at 7:22 am
The LED issue would be glowing green for peds at the same time cars have a red… I’d be hesitant about the risk of cars misreading the crosswalk green as if their own green. And given the likely cost of installing & maintaining such a volume of LEDs within a road surface: there are a couple big reasons why the LED element may not be ideal.
September 22nd, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I like the idea of making crosswalks an organic shape. The convenience to pedestrians is less important than the ambiguous contour: this helps to reinforce that the way belongs to humans, and that cars are there on sufferance (this fact is one that motorist lose sight of very quickly.)
I don’t think that the problem will ever be solved until we figure out a way to make pedestrians—at least intermittently—dangerous to motorists. I don’t know how to manage this from a practical level: retractable tire spikes? plainclothes policemen with clubs? The point is that the penalty needs to be swift and certain for the transgressing driver in order to change behaviors.
October 28th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Hi All,
I have a response to this on my blog:
http://goo.gl/LNGX
Personally, I think it’s a good idea to ‘test’ and the gains could prove to be better than the losses. But to think that altering the environment WON’T alter people walking paths, I think, is naive.
Let me know what you think! (And contribute a post to the blog if you like with the submit button)
Humans in Design