Webinar: MOD Fare Integration for Transit

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This webinar is an overview of MOD Fare Integration for Transit: A Case Study in the Los Angeles and Puget Sound Regions, which is the third paper in our research report series examining the FTA Mobility on Demand Sandbox project in the Los Angeles and Puget Sound Regions. Check out the full report here.

Public transit services in most metropolitan areas in the United States are highly fragmented among multiple modes and providers with various methods of payment. With private mobility services like transportation network companies (TNCs) playing a significant role in many journeys, the landscape of payment systems is growing more complex. Because of this, the integration of fare payment systems on public transit is increasingly important for efficiency, reliability, customer satisfaction, multimodal trip planning, tracking ridership, and collecting revenue. In this webinar, we’ll discuss Eno’s recommendations for the FTA, transit agencies, and private mobility companies to consider before embarking on partnerships involving fare payment and potential integration.

Speakers:
Romic Aevaz, Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
Alice Grossman, PhD, Science & Technology Policy Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Former Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
Paul Lewis, Vice President of Policy and Finance, Eno Center for Transportation

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Webinar: A Century of Fighting Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles

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The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) is studying congestion pricing to manage the region’s heavy traffic and unpredictable travel times. We examined a century of programs to reduce congestion and found that several strategies were pursued over and over again in different eras. Los Angeles repeatedly built new street, highway, and transit capacity, regulated drivers and vehicle traffic flows, increased the use of information about traffic conditions, and controlled land use to influence traffic. Road pricing was proposed a century ago but not implemented and congestion grew despite these many efforts. In this webinar, learn how current studies are promising and can be informed by lessons learned from past congestion policies.

Speakers:
Martin Wachs, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering and City and Regional Planning, University of California
Peter Sebastian Chesney, Ph.D Candidate and Fellow at the Center for History and Policy, University of California
Yu Hong Hwang, Master’s Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, University of California
Jeff Davis, Senior Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation

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Martin Wachs is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering and of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directed the Institute of Transportation Studies and the University of California Transportation Center. He earlier spent 25 years at UCLA, where he was Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning for eleven years. After retiring from the University, Wachs became the Director of Transportation, Space, and Technology Program at the RAND Corporation. He now conducts research at UCLA in transportation policy. Dr. Wachs served on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) for nine years and was the TRB Chairman during the year 2000. Dr. Wachs was Transportation Policy Advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, and was appointed by California Governor Pete Wilson to a “Blue Ribbon Commission on California Infrastructure.” He currently serves on a statewide committee created by the legislature to design a new system of road user charges for California and is a member of the Peer Review Group of the California High Speed Rail program.

Peter Sebastian Chesney is completing a Ph.D. in the Department of History and is a Fellow at the Luskin Center for History and Policy at UCLA.  Peter holds a certificate from UCLA’s Urban Humanities Institute and writes regular blog posts about history, media, and theory as @historycritic on Instagram.

 

Yu Hong Hwang is a candidate for the Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Researcher at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. He holds a degree in Materials Engineering from UCLA.

Webinar: Transportation Spending and Planning in the Time of COVID

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The COVID-19 pandemic hammered state and municipal budgets across the United States. A recent analysis by the National League of Cities found that nearly two-thirds of localities ether paused or halted some capital expenditures and infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, and public transit. Some public transit agencies are beginning to plan for service reductions. At the same time, infrastructure spending is also considered a key stimulus tool to right the struggling economy, through needed investments and jobs.

Co-hosted with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, this webinar will discuss new approaches to understanding and addressing the challenges the public health crisis and economic recession bring to transportation funding and planning.

Speakers:
Rodney Slater, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs; Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Joshua Schank, Chief Innovation Officer, Los Angeles County Metro
Alan Pisarski, Independent Consultant
Jeffrey Reed, President and CEO, Basic Resources, Inc. and VSS International; Board of Directors Chair, Association of Equipment Manufacturers 
Robert Puentes, President and CEO, Eno Center for Transportation

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Rodney Slater is a Partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Squire Patton Boggs, and former Secretary of Transportation in the Clinton Administration. Prior to becoming Secretary, Mr. Slater was head of the Federal Highway Administration, and was the first African-American Administrator in the agency’s century-long history. He held several positions in Arkansas, including Director of Government Relations at Arkansas State University; Executive Assistant for Economic and Community Programs for then-Governor Bill Clinton; the Governor’s Special Assistant for Community and Minority Affairs; Assistant Attorney General-Litigation Division of the Arkansas State Attorney General’s Office; and Secretary-Treasurer of the Arkansas Bar Association. He was also liaison for the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. From 1987 to 1992, Mr. Slater was a member of the Arkansas State Highway Commission, serving as its chairman, before joining the Clinton-Gore Administration. Mr. Slater is from Arkansas and currently resides in Washington, DC.

Joshua Schank is the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer for the Los Angeles County Metro and former President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation. Dr. Schank, who is an urban planner, has worked on federal and state transportation policy over a decade. Dr. Schank was Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton during the development of the last six year transportation authorization bill (SAFETEA-LU). He has also worked as a Consultant with PB Consult and Senior Associate at ICF International in Washington, D.C., as well as the Office of the Inspector General’s in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and with the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.

Alan Pisarski, an expert on U.S. commuting patterns, is a consultant on travel behavior, transport policy, and data development and analysis. Best known for his Commuting in America series, which began in 1985, Mr. Pisarski has worked for 35 years as an independent analyst and consultant, advising the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), the U.S. Census Bureau, federal agencies and commissions, and private associations. A former senior staff member at USDOT, he has been involved as a lead author or advisor on the national transportation studies conducted periodically by USDOT, and he has assisted the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in preparing investment recommendations in a series of “bottom-line” reports to Congress. He has testified before both houses of Congress on many occasions, represented the United States on international agency groups, and served as a consultant to a number of international organizations.

Jeffrey Reed is President/CEO of Basic Resources, Inc. and VSS International based in West Sacramento, California. He has been involved in the asphalt pavement and maintenance industry for three decades, delivering over 40 presentations and papers and also holds three patents in this field.

Jeff is a graduate of Gonzaga University in Washington, with both a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.

He is currently a member of Gonzaga’s Engineering Advisory Board and their Board of Regents.

He joined Valley Slurry Seal Company shortly after its purchase and has been president since 1978. At that time VSS was strictly a Northern California slurry seal contracting company. Since then the company has added four commercial emulsion plants in California and Oregon and is a major slurry microsurfacing machine and emulsion plant manufacturer, doing contracting and technology transfer in the 11 western states and 30 countries around the world. Valley’s Macropaver and Minimac slurry machines, asphalt rubber equipment and Emultech emulsion plants are in use throughout the world.

Basic Resources, based in Modesto, CA, is the holding company owner of VSS International, George Reed, Inc. and seven other contracting and manufacturing firms based in the western U.S., with 750 employees doing $250 million a year.

Jeff is a past president of the International Slurry Surfacing Association, Asphalt Emulsion Manufacturers Association and the Rubber Pavements Association. He is currently Vice Chairman of the International Road Federation and past Chairman of California Asphalt Pavement Association and sits on the Board of Directors of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.

In his personal time he is active in Boy Scouts serving as a Vice President of Area 3 Western Region of the Boy Scouts of America.

Webinar: Telework During COVID and Beyond: Leveraging Behavioral Science to Improve Virtual Work and the Future of Commuting

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Working from home has become the “new normal” for employees around the world. In the post-pandemic work environment, telework may continue to play a role in minimizing carbon emissions from single occupancy vehicle commutes. How can we maximize the potential of virtual work? In this webinar, Joseph Sherlock of the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University and Dr. Ashley Whillans of Harvard Business School will share insights from their research about how commute habits have changed in response to work from home orders, and how teleworking has affected life and work. Together, they will share insights about how a better understanding of behavioral science can improve virtual work. They will also share behavioral principles to encourage employees to opt-in to virtual work when going back to the office starts to become the reality. Finally, they will discuss strategies for improving uptake of alternative forms of transportation post-COVID.

Speakers:
Ashley Whillans (awhillans@hbs.edu), PhD., Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School 
Joseph Sherlock (jjs92@duke.edu), Applied Behavioral Researcher, Center for Advanced Hindsight
Brianne Eby, Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation

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Joseph Sherlock is an Applied Behavioral Researcher at the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He is currently on an extended secondment (sabbatical) from central government in the UK where he is a Principal Behavioural Scientist with HM Revenue and Customs. At the Center, he leads the Government Team which focuses on using behavioral science to bring innovation into civic society. He has previously worked at the Behavioural Insights Team in Public Health, as a Branding Consultant for Clear M&C Saatchi, and has co-founded a behavioral and wellbeing science consultancy. Joseph has run 50+ RCTs with governments across the world and has a wealth of experience applying behavioral science and human-centered design to difficult behavioral challenges, mostly in the sustainability, transportation, tax, financial decision making and health arenas. Joseph has a First Class Psychology degree from the University of Bath and holds an MSc in Social Policy from The London School of Economics.
Ashley Whillans is an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Broadly, she studies how people navigate trade-offs between time and money. Her ongoing research investigates whether and how intangible incentives, such as experiential and time-saving rewards, affect employee motivation and well-being. In both 2015 and 2018, she was named a Rising Star of Behavioral Science by the International Behavioral Exchange and the Behavioral Science and Policy Association. In 2016, she co-founded the Department of Behavioral Science in the Policy, Innovation, and Engagement Division of the British Columbia Public Service. Her research has been published in academic journals and popular media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Her first book “Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time & Live a Happier Life” will be published by Harvard Business Publishing on October 6, 2020, and is currently available for Pre-Order on Amazon. Professor Whillans earned her BA, MA, and PhD in Social Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining HBS, she was a visiting scholar and guest lecturer at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Webinar: How Automated Delivery Could Shape the Future of Local Commerce

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COVID-19 has highlighted both the value of home delivery and contactless service. Automated vehicles (AV) could potentially enable both. Behind the scenes, companies are working to develop the technology to enable AV deliveries. Although widespread deployment is at least a few years away, such a service could have dramatic effects on local commerce and transportation, particularly since 45 percent of household trips are for groceries and errands. Join Eno for a discussion about the future of AV deliveries, featuring a presentation of an independent study that focused on the possible economic impacts of delivery AVs by the Steer Group with insights from AV delivery company Nuro.

Speakers:
Matthew Lipka, Head of Policy, Nuro
Alia Verloes, Principal Consultant – New Mobility Market Leader (North America), Steer
Paul Lewis, Vice President of Policy and Finance, Eno Center for Transportation

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Matthew Lipka is Head of Policy at Nuro, a robotics company building and deploying fully autonomous, on-road vehicles in a last-mile delivery service. In this role, Matthew works with regulators, policymakers, advocates, and Nuro colleagues to shape policies and products that accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life. Prior to joining Nuro, Matthew worked as a transportation consultant and at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Alia is a public policy specialist and urban strategist with a focus on smart mobility, applying technology in cities, and above all, responding to societal changes. She holds a master’s degree on Regional and Urban Strategy from Sciences Po Paris. Alia currently works in the New Mobility Team at Steer exploring the potential opportunities and impact of disruptive transportation technologies in cities across the world. Alia’s work covers a wide range of technologies in Europe and North America including carsharing, ridesharing, micromobility, and connected autonomous vehicles. She has seven years’ experience helping public and private sector clients in better appraising and implementing the potential of emerging trends in transportation and mobility, in order to maximize benefits to users and society, and achieve their own policy and/or business objectives. 
Alia is a recognized expert who has been invited to speak at conferences in the US, Europe and Asia. She has also given lectures at Sciences Po’s Urban School and at Paris Urban Planning Institute on sustainable mobility solutions and mobility behaviors change. Alia has recently co-authored research pieces in the field, including in Transport Policy.

Webinar: Sustaining UAS Progress While Pursuing a Permanent Regulatory Framework

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Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) can potentially offer a wide range of capabilities and connect people with goods and services. They can replace the human element for dangerous inspections, monitor environmental changes in remote locations, and potentially reduce the carbon footprint of portions of the transportation network. But until UAS are safely integrated in to the National Airspace System, these advances cannot be fully realized. Policymakers need to focus on safety and transparency for a permanent regulatory framework for UAS operators and manufacturers.

Join Ken Dunlap and Paul Lewis, authors of Eno’s recent report, Bridging the Gap: Sustaining UAS Progress While Pursuing a Permanent Regulatory Framework, to discuss the paper and their recommendations for industry leaders on how to leverage the large body of existing FAA work to develop procedures, identify risks, and train workers effectively in UAS.

Speakers:
Ken Dunlap, Managing Partner, Catalyst-Go, Autonomous Vehicle Group
Paul Lewis, Vice President of Policy and Finance, Eno Center for Transportation

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Webinar: Promoting Resiliency Across the Global Supply Chains

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Supply chain and logistics professionals are constantly adapting to technological and socioeconomic shifts in the mobility landscape. While nothing has tested supply chains like the current pandemic, the American public and the policymakers who serve them have never been more aware of the role that goods movement professionals play in delivering essential goods to families and communities. This webinar will feature experts within the supply chain industry who will identify the most critical areas in the supply chain to improve resiliency, discuss ways that ports can become more efficient in the aftermath of COVID-19, and delve into ways that leaders in industry, government, and education can collaborate to ensure a competitive and adaptive supply chain workforce.

Moderators:
Tyler Reeb, Director of Research and Workforce Development at the Center for International Trade and Transportation at the California State University of Long Beach & Editor of Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals
Romic Aevaz, Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation

Panelists:
Rick Blasgen, President, The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
Kristin Decas, CEO and Director, Port Hueneme
Ian R. Roark, Vice President of Workforce Development and Strategic Partnerships, Pima Community College

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A proven leader, Kristin Decas repeatedly demonstrates her ability to build vision and implement strategy through open, collaborative processes that foster results. Since beginning her tenure with the Port of Hueneme in February 2012, the Port has realized several successes. Tonnage totals reached significant new milestones with cargo growing from 1.3 million tons in FY 2012 to over 1.6 million tons in FY 2018, marking the Port’s strongest sustained trade years since its inception in 1937. Port trade related activity spurs $1.7 billion in economic activity and 15,834 direct, indirect, induced and influenced jobs, increases of 113% and 55% respectively over 2013 performance. Most recent successes include securing a $3.3 million California Air Resources Board grant for zero emission equipment and infrastructure and a $12.3 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant. Over $45 million in infrastructure improvements are advancing on Kristin’s watch, including the installation of shoreside power for refrigerated cargo ships and a harbor deepening project that will also re-nourish local beaches. Kristin championed the first Port Banana Festival in 2012, an annual event now drawing over 12,000 visitors to the Port. From 2015- 2019, Mrs. Decas served as the President of the California Association of Port Authorities (CAPA) representing California’s 11 deep water ports, providing educational leadership and advocacy on issues related to transportation, trade, the environment, land use, and energy. Kristin was the first woman to run both the Port of New Bedford in its 50-year history and the Port of Hueneme in its 82-year history. In 2015, she was elected to Chair the American Association of Port Authorities, the 4th woman to hold the post in the Association’s 106 years. Kristin lives in Oxnard, CA with her husband, and is the proud mother of two daughters, Chloe and Gina.

Rick D. Blasgen is the president and chief executive officer of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) in Lombard, Illinois, USA. Blasgen began his career with Nabisco, working in a regional customer service center in Chicago, Illinois. While at Nabisco, he held various logistics positions of increasing responsibility in inventory management, order processing, and transportation and distribution center operations management. Blasgen became vice president, supply chain, at Nabisco in June 1998, then vice president supply chain for Kraft in June 2002. He joined ConAgra Foods in August 2003 as senior vice president integrated logistics. Blasgen has devoted much of his time to furthering a number of company’s supply chain management programs and initiatives. This experience has given him a solid foundation for his role at CSCMP where he has responsibility for the overall business operations and strategic plan of the organization.  His efforts support CSCMP’s mission of leading the supply chain management profession through the development and dissemination of supply chain education and research. Blasgen was designated by the US Department of Commerce in 2011 to serve as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC) providing the Administration advice and counsel on issues and concerns that affect the supply chain sector. He continues to chair that committee.  He is a member of Northwestern University’s Transportation Center Business Advisory Committee and a past chair of the Grocery Manufacturers Association Logistics Committee, and a past president of the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC). Blasgen is a graduate of Governors State University, earning his degree in business administration and majoring in finance.

Dr. Ian Roark serves as the Vice President of Workforce Development & Strategic Partnerships for Pima Community College. As the college’s single point of contact for workforce and economic development initiatives, Ian works with internal and external stakeholders to respond to the workforce needs of businesses and industry and the guide the college-wide alignment to the economic development priorities of the region and state. He is also honored to lead the Workforce Development Division, a phenomenal team of talented leaders and practitioners serving over 6,000 students in training, certificate, and degree programs annually. Ian holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Angelo State University, a Master’s of Education/Educational Leadership from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and a Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is dedicated to collective impact partnerships, community college innovation, the future of work, early college programs, and business and industry engagement, with an emphasis on student access, success, and upward mobility. Ian currently serves on the: Arizona Community College Coordinating Council Workforce & Economic Development COmmittee (Chair), Pima Association of Governments Economic Vitality Advisory Committee, Tucson United Way ELDER Alliance Leadership Council, Tucson Metro Chamber Board of Directors, Arizona Association for Economic Development Government Affairs Committee, Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center Executive Committee, and the Manufacturing Institute’s Education Council. In addition to his responsibilities, recognitions, and requests to speak regionally and nationally, Ian was named as the 2019 Workforce Practitioner of the Year by the Arizona Association for Economic Development, and was named to the Aspen Institute’s Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence for 2019-2020. Ian has been married to his awesome wife, Landi, who is an exemplary public school teacher and published children’s author, for 22 years. Together they have two children; a fun-loving, witty, and athletic son who is 13; and an artistic, mathematical, and scientific daughter, who is 17. Together, they all enjoy road trips, watching movies, and backyard cookouts. Ian’s favorite activities include hiking, camping, writing and playing music, and reading

Webinar: Ballots for Buses: Local Option Transportation Sales Taxes in California

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California counties have held nearly 100 elections over four decades to consider imposing local option sales taxes (LOSTs) to fund transportation programs. Most LOST propositions have been successful even when they required a two-thirds supermajority, and when other tax-related measures have failed badly. This webinar will review the history of these measures, present their major characteristics, their political implications, and examine how counties balance accountability to the voters against the need for flexibility to meet changing conditions. The authors have created a database containing information on failed and approved transportation LOSTs in the state and will describe how it can be accessed and used by researchers and practitioners.

Speakers:
Martin Wachs, Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies and the University of California Transportation Center
Jeremy Marks, Master of Urban and Regional Planning, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Romic Aevaz, Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation

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Martin Wachs is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering and of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directed the Institute of Transportation Studies and the University of California Transportation Center. He earlier spent 25 years at UCLA, where he was Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning for eleven years. After retiring from the University, Wachs became the Director of Transportation, Space, and Technology Program at the RAND Corporation. He now conducts research at UCLA in transportation policy. Dr. Wachs served on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) for nine years and was the TRB Chairman during the year 2000. Dr. Wachs was Transportation Policy Advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, and was appointed by California Governor Pete Wilson to a “Blue Ribbon Commission on California Infrastructure.” He currently serves on a statewide committee created by the legislature to design a new system of road user charges for California and is a member of the Peer Review Group of the California High Speed Rail program.

Jeremy Marks is a recently-awarded Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) —having just completed the two-year Master of Urban Planning program in UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs with a concentration in Transportation Policy and Planning. He is currently a Public Administration Analyst in UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS). While pursuing his Master’s degree in Urban Planning, Jeremy completed an internship with the shared micro-mobility company, Lime, where he led revenue and demand generation efforts and government and community affairs initiatives. Before studying at UCLA, Jeremy worked at the Urban Institute, where he researched national health policy and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He earned a Bachelor’s in Public Policy Analysis (PPA) from Pomona College in 2014.

Road to Recovery Webinar: Rebalancing the Load: How Road User Charging Can Influence Traveler Behavior

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Congestion pricing can be a valuable tool for regions to address congestion and meet goals for sustainability and equity. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) tools and electronic toll collection (ETC) technologies can enable congestion management systems that can sense, adapt, and influence driver behavior so that planners and policy makers can optimize their transportation networks. Given the current changes in traveler behavior due to the pandemic, there is increasing interest in road user charging schemes as a new approach to manage the load on regional transport systems. In this webinar, you’ll learn how technology is being leveraged to integrate other road network systems, holistically manage networks, coordinate planned demand against different modal capacities, and incentivize specific choices.

Speakers:
Marc Deflin, Vice President of Business Development – Road User Charging, Cubic Transportation Systems
Brianne Eby, Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation

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Marc Deflin leads global Business Development for Cubic Transportation Systems’ Road User Charging Business.

Deflin has thirty years of progressive experience in engineering, project management, and business development in the road user charging industry. His expertise lies in tolling systems and back-office operations and he is familiar with the migration of cash tolling to multi-lane free flow electronic tolling environments. Deflin also has strong experience working with multiple agencies in the US for Electronic Toll Collection and is well versed in intelligent transportation systems, sensor technologies, radio frequency identification (RFID) applications and emerging mobile applications.

He was previously Vice President of Xerox/Conduent where he worked with multiple toll agencies in the United States on Electronic Toll Collection pursuits and projects, including dynamic pricing. He also served as Xerox’s Vice President of Tolling, located in the Netherlands where he pursued global road user charging and congestion pricing projects.

Prior to Conduent and Xerox, Deflin worked in leading transportation service and technology companies including Raytheon Systems Company, Hughes Aircraft Company, Telvent Transportation and start-ups – At-Comm Corporation and SpeedInfo.

Deflin graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He also has a Master of Science in Industrial Administration (MBA) from Carnegie Mellon University.

Road to Recovery Webinar: Double the Trouble: Evacuations During COVID-19

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In this webinar, join a discussion about ongoing research and efforts to address evacuations from disasters and emergencies amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This session will provide summaries of critical transportation, sheltering, logistic, and communication challenges, as well as possible strategies for evacuating large populations from danger. In addition, the session will include several case studies of recent disasters and broader research directions related to evacuations and resilience to address the ongoing and worsening climate crisis.

Speakers:
Stephen Wong, Doctoral Candidate in Transportation Engineering, University of California, Berkley
Katherine Idziorek, 2020 Thomas J. O’Bryant Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation

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Stephen Wong is a doctoral candidate studying Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersection of evacuations, decision-making, and shared mobility. His research aims to develop empirically driven and equitable evacuation and resilience strategies for governmental agencies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Stephen has also conducted research on sustainable transportation and innovative mobility. Stephen is an affiliate with the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) and the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a graduate student researcher at the UC Institute of Transportation Studies’ (UC ITS) California Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (CA RIMI). CA RIMI aims to inform the state’s and nation’s immediate COVID-19 response and recovery needs, while establishing a long-term pathway for more sustainable and resilient transportation systems. Stephen currently serves as a member of the Committee on Disaster Response, Emergency Evacuations, and Business Continuity (AMR20) at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Emergency Management and Evacuation Working Group at the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). He was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow (2015-2020), an Eno Center for Transportation Fellow (2018), and a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow (2018-2020).

Katherine Idziorek is Eno’s 2020 Thomas J. O’Bryant Fellow. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning and a member of the THINK Lab in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research is focused on understanding the ways in which social networks, social infrastructure, and trust contribute to disaster preparedness attitudes and actions at the community scale. Katherine also serves on the Seattle Planning Commission, where she works to support integrated multimodal transportation planning as well as planning for resilient social and physical infrastructures. Before returning to the University of Washington to pursue a Ph.D., Katherine worked as a professional urban planning and design consultant, contributing to place-based transit planning and community visioning projects across the Seattle and Vancouver, BC metro areas.