Eno’s Jeff Davis summarizes the funding levels and major programmatic changes under the $490 billion surface transportation authorization bill released by the House Democrats this week.
Speakers:
Jeff Davis, Senior Fellow and Editor, Eno Center for Transportation
Alice Grossman, Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
This webinar summarizes Eno’s latest research report titled Congestion Pricing in the United States: Principles for Developing a Viable Program to Advance Sustainability and Equity Goals.
There is no silver bullet to fix the woes of urban mobility and access, but congestion pricing is a proven, viable, and effective tool. Charging a fee for the parts of the roadway network used the most during the busiest times of day reduces demand. The charges incentivize travelers to switch to other modes of transportation, seek alternative routes, or travel at other times. The charges can help to reduce negative effects of traffic such as air pollution, carbon emissions, road damage, and traffic crashes. This webinar will outline Eno’s latest research report discussing how to address the most significant barriers to congestion pricing today: the political, institutional, and communication hurdles.
Speakers:
Brianne Eby, Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
Robert Puentes, President and CEO, Eno Center for Transportation
Martha Roskowski, Principal, Further Strategies
Immediate concerns about the ability of the food supply chain to meet customer demand have abated following the initial wave of panic buying, but concerns remain for the coming year. As the reported cases among meat packers and food processers have highlighted, one concern that will stay with us and probably increase as society reopens is the availability of workers, from the farm through processing to the grocery store or restaurant. Transportation is the vital link between all these segments. This webinar will focus on how disruptions to transportation, particularly within the trucking labor force, could rise to an industry-level problem.
Speakers:
Andrew Novakovic, Ph.D., Professor of Agricultural Economics, Director of Land Grant Programs; Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University
Romic Aevaz, Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
Andrew Novakovic is a professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University and director of Land Grant Programs for the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His research focuses on the economics of agricultural and food product markets, particularly dairy foods. This includes the economics of food distribution, the operation of food processing and marketing, and the regulation of the United States’ food supply.
Essential transportation technologies, such as connected vehicles, tolling payment systems, back office systems, and road side units, need to be secure. But cybersecurity has often been an afterthought, ensuring that systems are vulnerable. A growing gap between security and reliance on the Internet of Things, exemplified and magnified within transportation, is part of a dangerous trend transportation officials will continue to combat at ever increasing complexity. BlackBerry is particularly aware of this threat as their technology is embedded in 150 million automobiles worldwide. This webinar will discuss strategies for protecting systems, creating a culture of security, and providing some understanding of the technologies and techniques used to battle cyber threats.
Speakers:
Charles Eagan, Chief Technology Officer, Blackberry
Paul Lewis, Vice President of Policy and Finance, Eno Center for Transportation
Appointed in June 2018, Charles Eagan is the Chief Technology Officer for BlackBerry. In this role, Charles is responsible for the advancement of new technologies, driving innovation within emerging markets and advancing security capabilities that leverage AI and Machine Learning. He is also responsible for technology partnerships and overseeing the standardization and integration of all company products with an emphasis on helping drive BlackBerry’s Internet of Things platform.
Charles was previously the Global Head of Electronics at Dyson Ltd (U.K.), focused on IoT device deployment. Prior to that he served as BlackBerry’s Global Head of Device Software, and spearheaded development of the BlackBerry 10 operating system and the transition to secure Android.
Charles was formerly Vice President of Engineering for QNX Software, where he concentrated on the automotive and embedded markets. He also worked at Cisco and directed development of the seminal CRS-1 carrier routing system.
In 2008, Charles co-founded Crank Software, a company dedicated to the development of embedded tools and technologies that enabled rapid building of highly functional graphical interfaces. Earlier in his career, he built connected devices for Honda in the areas of process control, factory automation and robotics.
Charles is a noted speaker, thought leader and IoT expert who has been at the forefront of new frontiers in digital connectivity for over three decades. He graduated with honors from the University of Waterloo (Canada) with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and electrical engineering minor.
From Alvin Toffler’s (1980) “electronic cottage,” to Peter Drucker’s (1993) declaration that commuting to an office was obsolete, through countless disruptions ever since, people have predicted the widespread adoption of working from home, with concomitant benefits to congestion, fuel consumption, and emissions. Yet while telecommuting has seen steady growth in the “information era,” overall levels have remained modest—until recently, when the COVID-19 pandemic has forced its adoption on an unprecedented scale. What will happen when it is safe to go back to the office? Will managers and staff alike embrace the benefits of working from home, or will it be back to business as usual? This webinar offers a snapshot of the present, reviews past research and experience on the adoption and travel-related impacts of telecommuting and reflects on future implications for transportation.
Speakers:
Patricia Mokhtarian, Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alice Grossman, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
Patricia Mokhtarian is the Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She joined Georgia Tech in 2013, after 23 years at the University of California, Davis, where she was a CEE Professor, Associate Director for Education of the Institute of Transportation Studies, and Founding Chair of the Transportation Technology and Policy Graduate Group. Prior to that, she spent nine years in regional planning and consulting in Southern California, after completing her PhD at Northwestern University. Dr. Mokhtarian has specialized in the application of rigorous quantitative methods to the study of travel behavior for more than 35 years. A key research interest has been the impact of telecommunications technology on travel behavior, with additional interests in land use and transportation interactions, attitudes toward travel itself, multitasking, travel time budgets, induced demand, and congestion-response behavior. She has authored or co-authored more than 200 refereed journal articles, technical reports, and other publications, including more than 40 peer-reviewed articles relating to telecommuting. She is a recent Past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research and serves on the editorial boards of nine transportation journals.
Previous plans to expand bike networks and more space for pedestrians are being fast-tracked as stay-at-home orders for COVID-19 demand more room for people to adequately practice social distancing while remaining active and making trips for essential goods and services. As cities move quickly, it is important for them to have tools to rapidly create these new policies and communicate them easily to mobility operators and the public. Cities across the world, from Oakland to Denver to Milan to Paris, are moving to free up more space for pedestrians and cyclists, often by accelerating existing plans. This webinar will discuss how cities are taking action and how new digital tools can support more dynamic management of their streets, curbs, and sidewalks.
Speakers:
Rodney Stiles, Head of Policy, Populus
Paul Lewis, Vice President of Policy and Finance, Eno Center for Transportation
As the Head of Policy at Populus, Rodney leads development of the team’s policy agenda, communications, and relationships with cities around the world. Previously, he worked at the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission where he led taxi and ride-hail policy and data reporting. He also worked as a demographer for the New York City Department of Planning, developing solutions to help the city plan for its future. His interests include walking, biking, and data visualization. He is a 2009 graduate of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
Full obedience of traffic rules and regulations and the ability to dynamically change them, depending on the current situation in a city or on a motorway, would enable a completely new toolbox for traffic planners. In Sweden, dynamic environmental zones that are triggered by thresholds in air pollution or digitally-enforced speed regulations outside schools are currently be tested. To a large extent, the technology is already available and the Swedish Transport Administration is working together with the city of Gothenburg and Stockholm to develop the ability to deliver traffic rules and regulations digitally to connected vehicles through a national road database. This webinar will discuss current and future applications of geofencing technology and what capabilities that will be needed from transport authorities in order to make full use of its potential.
Speakers:
Johannes Berg, Senior Adviser for Digitalization of the Transport System, Swedish Transport Administration
Alice Grossman, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
Johannes Berg is Program Manager for a four-year R&D platform on geofencing at the Swedish Transport Administration. The platform gathers key actors from the public sector, car industry, tech industry, and academia with the aim of promoting a full-scale implementation of geofencing in Sweden and the Nordic countries. Johannes previously served as Project Manager for Smart City projects in the city of Stockholm and as a Senior Adviser at the ministry of enterprises expert authority Transport Analysis, where he initiated the first Swedish simulations studies on the impacts of autonomous vehicles.
With Congress scrambling to address unprecedented unemployment and an economy in free-fall, negotiations over stimulus packages present new possibilities for one of the Trump administration’s long-promised priorities: infrastructure. In this webinar, we will explore new and innovative policy approaches that will generate more value from existing U.S. infrastructure, including asset recycling and public-private partnerships. We will also discuss the role of infrastructure in economic stimulus, as well impact such proposals can be expected to have for the United States economy and workforce.
Speakers:
Rick Geddes, Ph.D., Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Founding Director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy
Emil Frankel, Senior Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation
Rick Geddes is a professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University and founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP). He researches the funding and operation of heavy civil and social infrastructure, with a focus on the adoption of new technologies. His research has examined network-wide road pricing, infrastructure resilience, and innovative infrastructure financing via public-private partnerships. He is also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and a research fellow with the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University.
Eno President and CEO Robert Puentes summarized rapidly-emerging transit trends in light in COVID. Eno Transportation Weekly editor and Senior Fellow Jeff Davis, a nationally-recognized expert on federal transportation funding and policy, explained and analyzed the billions of dollars in emergency assistance provided to the transit sector in the recent coronavirus relief package, as well as how the Executive Branch is handling distribution. Jeff has also been tracking the prospects for future COVID relief packages and provided a status update on those efforts.
Cities are looking to their transportation systems to promote mobility, safety, equity, climate and accessibility goals. Some trends, such as the growth in e-commerce and ride-hailing, are making these achieving these goals more complex. Cities can be stymied, sometimes by other levels of government, in efforts to combat congestion. But cities typically exercise significant control over their streets, sidewalks and curb space. Curb space management policy is a powerful tool cities already have, which, if leveraged strategically, can be a powerful tool to reach mobility goals. This webinar will discuss the ways cities can develop policies for valuable curb space to drive their larger objectives.
Speakers:
Dawn Miller, Head of Policy and Partnerships, COORD
Brianne Eby, Senior Policy Analyst, Eno Center for Transportation
Dawn Miller is Coord’s Head of Policy and Partnerships. She previously served as Chief of Staff at the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), the City agency that oversees New York City’s taxi, car service and ride-hailing industries. Dawn launched TLC’s Research and Evaluation practice, serving as its first director, and worked as a researcher at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn and loves parks, bikes, beaches, stoop-sitting and group fitness.