August Active Transportation Webinar Round-Up

July 30, 2020

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Explore our round-up of webinars coming up in August highlighting the latest road safety trends and best practices in planning and designing safe spaces for walking, biking, scooting, and rolling! Have a webinar you'd like us to share? Please submit webinar details here.

August 5, 2020 

Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities

America Walks
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT | Register

Get to know Dr. Andre M. Perry and his book Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities, which is both research and memoir. Dr. Perry is a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, a scholar-in-residence at American University, and a columnist for the Hechinger Report. He will give an overview of five Black Majority cities and provide an analysis of how the assets and strengths of these places have been devalued. Knowing and valuing the strengths of Black communities is essential to address structural racism in community design. 

Inclusive Mobility - Enabling Participation of Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

NADTC & SUMC
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT | Register

The National Aging & Disability Transportation Center and the Shared Use Mobility Center has collaborated to discuss shared mobility and how to make it accessible for older adults and persons with disabilities. Join speakers Al Benedict (Shared Use Mobility Center) and Mitch LaRosa (Shared Mobility Inc). 

August 6, 2020 

Trail Analytics and Data Storytelling

American Trails
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PT | Register
Data science has the ability to provide information for both analysis and storytelling. These tools allow an exploration of trail connectivity, demand, comfort, health, and safety needs. The webinar will share a set of data analysis and scenario planning tools that can be used to plan and design new or existing trails. Presenters will introduce case studies from three California trail corridors that will be of three different scales. These will include the Los Angeles River Path (8 miles), the Iron Horse Trail (22 miles), and the Great Redwood Trail (300 miles). The webinar will also discuss how the tools can be used for various mobility options. Presenters will include Emily Duchon (Alta Planning + Design), Deven Young (Alta Planning + Design), Mike Sellinger (Alta Planning + Design), and Lauren Cencic (LA County MTA)

August 11, 2020 

The Role of Transportation in Improving America's Health

Eno Center for Transportation
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM PT | Register
Renee Autumn Ray, Strategy and Innovation Leader at Conduent Transportation, will be discussing her recent paper "Increasing Access to Essential Health Functions: The Role of Transportation in Improving America's Health." Transportation access is one crucial way in which government can enable residents to live healthy, productive lives. It provides access to jobs, services, recreation, and much more to residents. Ray will discuss her recommendations on how public sector agencies can work together to improve policy and programming, provide a more equitable environment, and enable better health outcomes and a higher quality of life

Better Buses, Better Cities

SPUR
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT | Register
The bus is often overlooked as a form of public transportation and seen as an afterthought in budgeting and planning. However, it serves as a foundation of fast, reliable, and inclusive transportation network. Author Steven Higashide of Transit Center will be discussing his book Better Buses, Better Cities in this webinar on implementable steps necessary to marshal widespread support and strength collaboration to enhance the duty of buses within our cities. 

August 12, 2020

Planning for Urban Freight Delivery

Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education Center (STRIDE)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT | Register
Dr. Noreen McDonald at UNC Chapel Hill will be presenting a comparison of minimum requirements for freight loading spaces in 20 largest cities in the US as well as 4 major cities in North Carolina. The study assesses the requirements for off-street and on-street loading spaces from municipal zoning codes and planning documents among other methods. The findings show that requirements vary across the nation. The webinar provides an overview of how freight loading spaces are managed and supports the narrative for increasing freights loading spaces to meet the demand for urban freight deliveries spurred by e-commerce

Walking Towards Justice in Indian Country: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

America Walks
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT | Register

This webinar is a part of the Walking Towards Justice in Indian Country series, focused on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Participants will learn how colonization, complex jurisdictional issues, and racialized indifference created circumstances  in which crimes against Indigenous women are perpetrated and rarely prosectued. Join Moderator Margo Hill (Eastern Washington University), US Congresswoman Deb Haaland, Laura Harjo (University of New Mexico), Jessica McDiarmind (author of Highway of Tears), and Carina Miller (member of Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and candidate for Oregon State Senate). Attendees unfamiliar with Indigenous culture and governance can review the first webinar in the series. More information is available at the registration link.

August 13, 2020

Classifying, Measuring, and Valuing the Benefits of Place on the Transport System

Austroads
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT | Register

Planning has increasingly become foward-looking with emphasis on the role of roads as spaces for public life. However, understanding what "place" means in transportation remains a challenging and inconsistent proposition. Will Fooks and Ed Zhao of GTA Consultants in their presentation of Austroads' recent research project that explores the ways in which "place" is measured locally and internationally, and how transport practitioners can practically and effectively classify, measure, and value the place function of our streets. The presentation will explore experiences and challenges by over 130 participants across Australia and New Zealand.

Ensuring Equity in Public Space

SPUR
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT | Register

Despite their name, many public spaces have been designed and stewarded to prevent certain types of behaviors, uses and even people. If we want our public spaces to be open and accessible for all people, we must rethink how we engage, design and maintain these places. With support from the Knight Foundation, join a panel of experts from across the country to explore the challenges and triumphs of creating truly equitable public space in our cities. Join speakers Michelle Huttenhoff (SPUR), Anna Muessig (Gehl Studios), Seema Kariam (Trust for Public Land), and Brandi Marck (Designing Justice + Designing Spaces). 

This is Part Two in a series on equity and public space. Find Part One here.

August 18, 2020

Restorative Justice Strategies for Safe Streets

Vision Zero Network
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT | Register

The Center for Court Innovation's Driver Accountability Program, which started in Brooklyn, incorporates elements of restorative justice and focuses on behavior change as an alternative to the traditional punishment and fine system. This works to reduce systemic harm and improves road safety for all. The method has expanded to other parts of NYC with support of City Council and transportation safety advocates.  The discussion will be led by Amanda Berman, the Director of the Red Hook Community Justice Center and program coordinator. Berman will be joined by NYC Council Member Brad Lander as well.

August 19, 2020

Discovering Potential Market for the Integration of Public Transportation and Emerging Shared Mobility Services

Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education Center (STRIDE)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT | Register

Join Dr. Lili Du and Dr. Xia Jin in their exploration of potential markets for integration of public transit and shared-mobility devices (including carsharing, bikesharing, ridesharing, and private shuttles). As shared mobility gains popularity over the years, concerns over how to coexist with public transportation have become crucial for the long-term sustainability of both modes. In order to understand the impact of shared mobility, the study examines the potential supply-demand market where public transit and shared mobility can work in tandem. Researchers analyze where supply gaps exist to integrate a hybrid system. 

Transit Station Connectivity

APBP
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT | Register

Find more information on the monthly APBP webinar at the site here!

August 31, 2020

The Relationship Between Bicycle Facilities and Increasing Bicycle Trips

Transportation Research Board
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT | Register

This webinar will examine how cyclists perceive different types of bicycle facilities and identify how to quantify bicycle trips as a result of implementing bicycle facilities. Calvin Clark of Georgia Institute of Technology will be reviewing the findings of the study that took place in southeastern US, where bicycling is less prevalent. The talk will have three main components: expressed comfort, safety and willingness to try cycling; perceptions of transportation change; and changes in metrics and cycling behavior. Find the research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program here