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 17th, 2010 at 8:58 am
you know the ADT of every facility you travel on
you know the difference between a rotary and a roundabout, and aren’t shy about passionately explaining it to your nonplussed friends and family
you have James Oberstar’s autograph (or wish you did)
December 17th, 2010 at 9:06 am
You can quickly define the distinctions between roundabouts, traffic circles, traffic calming circles, and rotaries.
Some more acronyms: HRT, LRT, BRT, SPUI, DDI, CFI, MUTCD, FHWA, AASHTO…
One more acronym… anything ending in DOT (which has led to some entertaining mistakes when it’s *not* transportation-related).
The majority of your photos both at home & abroad revolves around transportation systems.
Your vacations involve visiting other countries’ construction sites, transportation centers, and spending a day riding to every rail station in each city.
When driving, you’ll regularly announce to my passengers that “I wouldn’t have done that” or why that sign is useless; or why some regulation is inappropriate.
…Also, when driving, you’ll often make sudden pull-offs & stop to get out and observe some interesting treatment or traffic operations. Suddenly losing an hour of my day to an impromptu staring at traffic is not unheard of.
December 17th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Calling a traffic light a traffic signal. That’s always a dead giveaway.
December 17th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Your facebook profile picture is you and a parking meter.
When someone asks, rhetorically, why the evening commute is so much worse than the morning commute, you have to bite your tongue to keep from launching into a 10-minute lecture on travel behavior.
You regularly point out good pedestrian infrastructure to your (totally uninterested) friends and relatives.
Sigh. Guilty.
Katie
http://www.wherethesidewalkstarts.blogspot.com
December 17th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Your husband almost crashes the car trying to take pictures wo road construction, HOT lanes,or carpool lanes in every major city you visit.
December 17th, 2010 at 11:04 am
- You’ve read the book “Traffic”
- You have trained your wife to be able to point out “cuts” and “fills” along the highway
- You are to blame for all traffic and road related issues your friends and family can think of (plowing, slow traffic, fast traffic, contruction sites, etc.)
- You think the funniest joke in the world is the picture of the sign that says “Caution: This Sign has Sharp Edges”. (It really is hilarious).
- You are proud of the fact that Tom Cruise played a Traffic Engineer in one of the Mission Impossible movies.
- You are quick to correct neighbors that another stop sign on our street will NOT be good for traffic calming.
- When you are pulled over for speeding you tell the police officer that the 85th percentile speed on this stretch of road is actually 2 km/h higher than the speed which you were travelling at. Thus, the current speed limit is artificially too low and when you get back to the office you were going to do the paper work to get it raised. (He then asks you to step out of the vehicle).
I could sit here all day and grow this list. But I’ve got speed zone paper work to get back to…..
Cheers,
Ryan
December 17th, 2010 at 11:40 am
I’m with you except for #2. “mode” is a geek word in many other contexts. Particularly a computer geek one. I use it daily. In fact, I don’t even know exactly what it means in a transpo geek setting, so I guess I don’t get to count that one.
December 17th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
don’t think LaHood, Peters and Mineta are the outfielders for the Chicago Cubs.
you don’t call it “rush hour” but “peak period.”
when you see “ITS” you don’t think of a possessive pronoun.
you have on your smart phone transportation apps for places you’ve never been.
whether you’re in NYC, LA, Chicago or Philadelphia you know which radio station has traffic and weather together on the ___’s.
you call 511 even if you’re not planning to go anywhere.
December 17th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
the word “hump” invokes fantasies of extremely calmed traffic
December 17th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
beach reading — “The High Cost of Free Parking”
December 17th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
When someone asks, “what’s your sign?” you reply, “W2-5L”
December 17th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
You actually know what ’85th percentile speed’ means
You’re on a first name basis with the community outreach coordinator for the Dept. of Trans.
You have a poster of Enrique Penalosa in your room
You use the acronym BRT more than once a year
You knew what ciclovia meant before city planners did
You know the passenger capacity of a bike lane, a bus, a streetcar, and a highway lane
When someone uses the term ‘rollover’ you’re not thinking of your dog
You know the security guard at the bureau of transportation
December 17th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
And if you’re a region-specific traffic geek
– if the term “Beltline” has nothing to do with keeping your pants up.
In other news, I got a ticket of 7mph over the other day, on an empty 3×3 thoroughfare, in perfect conditions, at night. This better get dismissed or, well I don’t know what I’ll do beyond being really displeased but, still, it better get dismissed.
December 19th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Does Donald Shoup’s autograph count?
December 20th, 2010 at 5:55 am
You are definitely a transportation geek if:
For your vacation you go to Goningen.
You know what a “Semi-permeable barrier” is, and want more of them in your neighbourhood.
You curse someone out for unsafe riding as “you %^#$@@!! GUTTER BUNNY”
You are a Toronto transportation geek if:
You regard Rob Ford as the Anti-Christ, and his election as a harbiner of the Apocolypse.
You are a member of the TCU.
You know what the Toronto streetcar gauge is. Extra bonus if in millimetres.
December 20th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
You subscribe to real-time transit alerts from systems you’ve never seen.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 am
If you’ve posted on this site! (Damn!)
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:56 am
As a subset to #2: You know what Botts Dots are.
–if you watch a movie with a downtown action scene, all you notice are the MCI motor coaches passing by in the background.
–if you know the sound difference between a Cummins or Detroit Diesel engine…when you hear it in the bus that is still three blocks away.
–if you use “Green Ball” or “Red Ball” in your daily vernacular and no one notices.
–if you give dirving instructions that include the phrase “Hang a Florida U” (Ditto “Texas U”)
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December 22nd, 2010 at 3:28 pm
1. “Level of Service D” actually isn’t your reaction to a botched cocktail order.
2. You know the peak capacity of an interstate highway lane. You use “peak capacity” in sentences.
4. You actually include references to SAFETEA-LU reauthorization in your holiday greetings.
Happy holidays and may Santa load a soon-to-pass reauthorization bill into his sleigh… Ooops!
December 23rd, 2010 at 11:00 am
You look forward to Mondays because that’s when the weekly TRB E-newsletter comes.
December 23rd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
You know all the local lingo (ie: In California, they precede the Interstate/route # with “The”, as in “The 405″, “The 10″. In New Jersey, everything is “Route”, as in Route 80, Route 295.
You know the New Jersey Turnpike (South of Interchange 6), Garden State Parkway, and AC Expressway truly do have route numbers, but are never used.
You purposely drive into a construction zone, not away from it.
You look at the traffic cameras to see the amount of snow that has fallen in a given area.
You look at a traffic camera and watch in real time the shifting of a construction zone traffic pattern.
You know the different between a red light camera and a traffic signal traffic detector.
December 27th, 2010 at 3:36 am
Your anthem is a variation on another Beatles tune – “… got a ticket to ride …” – and you’re NOT at a theme park.
January 19th, 2011 at 11:31 am
You and your co-workers spend a beautiful autumn afternoon traveling along the colorful, tree-lined Mississippi River valley in NE Iowa and comment to each other about the condition of the pavement and pavement markings. (It really happened to us, and we all laughed when one person in our group mentioned it. I guess we are engineers)