Explore our round-up of webinars and events coming up highlighting the latest road safety trends and best practices in planning and designing safe spaces for walking, biking, scooting, and rolling! Have an event you'd like us to share? Please submit your event here.
Also, these opportunities can be found on the event calendar here.
Trainings
Equity in Action: Developing Equity Tools
Host: SCAG
Tuesday, January 25, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Local jurisdictions can play a critical role in advancing equity and eliminating disparities across the region. In this third equity-focused Toolbox Tuesday, you will be guided through the process of how to use and develop equity tool(s) for your jurisdiction. Equity tools are designed to integrate the explicit consideration of equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs, and budgets. They can focus on different aspects of your work, such as during project scope development or the budgeting process, or can serve as a checkpoint to help jurisdictions investigate disparities within their communities and incorporate equity in their work.
SCAG, along with a local jurisdiction, will share insights into the development of their own equity tools. SCAG’s Racial Equity Toolkit contains a series of six tools aimed at different aspects of the planning process:
- Communications Tool
- Community Engagement & Relationship Building Tool
- Data Gathering & Analysis Tool
- Equitable Strategy & Action Tool
- Equity Assessment Tool
- Stakeholder Analysis Tool
Conferences
Smart Growth America's Equity Summit
Sponsor: Smart Growth America
Jan 11 – 13, 2022
Last year Smart Growth America (SGA) hosted our first-ever Equity Summit to bring a discussion of racial equity to the smart growth movement and make the case that smart growth without a focus on equity isn’t smart growth at all. Speakers discussed how to promote equity in housing and land use, why strong Black and brown businesses are key to neighborhood vitality, and how to right the wrongs of past damaging transportation decisions and promote restorative justice.
The 2022 Equity Summit will be held (virtually) from January 11-13, 2022. Over three days, you’ll hear keynotes on equitable development and panels curated by our economic development, transportation, and land use teams.
Micromobility World
Host: Micromobility Industries
Wednesday, January 12, 10am – 2pm
Micromobility World returns for a major virtual summit exploring how small vehicles can radically improve our world.
The way we move things and people is changing on a global scale. Fueled by the relentless growth of cities, micromobility devices—including hoverboards, scooters, ebikes, three-wheelers, and everything in-between—have emerged as the world’s most popular EVs, eclipsing cars. A thunderbolt of new vehicles, ideas, and technologies is upending the old paradigm of auto dependency. Yet challenges remain.
This January, join micromobility’s top global builders, leaders, and thinkers for an unprecedented (and 100% free) virtual gathering, in which we’ll examine how we can harness the disruptive power of small electric vehicles to revolutionize cities and build a more sustainable future.
More details and how to register.
Webinars
Addressing the Role of Behavioral Safety in the Safe System Approach
Host: GHSA
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PT |Register(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external) (link is external)
Join GHSA and special guests for an in-depth look at how behavioral safety fits within the Safe System approach to traffic safety. Lorrie Laing of Cambridge Systematics will present highlights and key takeaways from a new GHSA publication that explains the important role of behavioral safety in the Safe System approach and explores why addressing human behavior actually complements – not conflicts with – a System System approach. Hear representatives from two leading traffic safety organizations – National Safety Council’s VP of Government Affairs Jane Terry and AAA’s Director of Traffic Safety Advocacy & Research Jake Nelson – share how their organizations view the role of behavioral safety within a Safe System. Learn about how California is supporting a Safe System from California Office of Traffic Safety Director Barbara Rooney. The webinar will conclude with time for questions and answers.We hope you can join us for a lively discussion and walk away with some ideas you can implement in your own states and communities!
Register for the webinar.
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit
Host: Eno Center for Transportation
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PT | Register(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)
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The Power of Partnerships - Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Deliver Transformative Active Transportation Facilities in Complex Urban Environments
Host: APBP
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT | Register(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)
This webinar will highlight a unique public-private partnership between the City of Boston and Samuels & Associates. The project will activate the surrounding streets, repair the discontinuity in the urban street wall, and greatly improve neighborhood connectivity. Through a highly collaborative and inclusive process, the project development team led by Samuels with VHB as lead engineer identified a series of creative solutions to utilize highway air rights to greatly expand the public realm, build out a low stress bikeway and enhance transit connections.
Fee: $50 members / $85 nonmembers
Mobility, Accessibility, and Resiliency of Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Host: NITC
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PT | Register(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)
As we get older, transportation provides a vital link between home and community. Without reliable and easy ways to get around, many older adults (especially those who live alone) have limited access to essentials like groceries and medicine, let alone social interaction. A new report from led by Kate Hyun of UT Arlington, "Developing Strategies To Enhance Mobility And Accessibility For Community-Dwelling Older Adults", looked at the mobility challenges, barriers, and gaps that older adults experience, and strategies to fill those gaps. They also looked at the impacts of COVID-19 on their health and travel behavior. The offer five key strategies ranging from public assistance programs, to door-to-door mobility, and reducing car dependence earlier in life through design and policy.
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Child and Youth Pedestrian Crashes Deserve Another Look: Why and How to Do it
Host: PBIC
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:30am PT | Register(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)
In most cities children don’t comprise a large share of pedestrian crashes yet there are good reasons and real benefits for a deliberate approach to give this age group the special protection they need. Starting with a focus on youth also can build momentum to address road safety for all. Presenters will offer an overview of Vision Zero for Youth and the results of a two-year demonstration project with the city of Philadelphia using policy change and testing a systemic process to identify high risk roads for children and youth in combination with an equity analysis.
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The Safe System Approach in Action
Friday, January 28, 2022 | 9:00am - 10:00am PT | Register(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)(link is external)
The Safe System Approach is more than just a pillar of the Road to Zero strategy. It's a way to save lives of all community members on our streets. This webinar will explore how to turn this strategy into action with examples from leaders in the field.