Miles to Go: Bringing School Transportation into the 21st Century
When: 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET, Thursday, July 27, 2017
Where: via Webinar
Speakers:
Robert Puentes, President and CEO, Eno Center for Transportation
Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, Principal, Bellwether Education Partners
Every day, nearly 25 million students travel to school in an instantly recognizable yellow bus. Since these vehicles drove onto the scene decades ago, almost nothing has changed about them or the school systems that use them to transport students.
While the school bus is the safest vehicle on the road, these days many school districts are struggling to provide efficient and adequate service because of rising costs, stagnant funding, and increasingly complex regulations.
In a recent report, Bellwether Education Partners analyzed school transportation on a national scale to determine how schools can improve their transportation systems while maintaining their impeccable safety record. This webinar, hosted by report co-author Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, will focus on the planning, efficiency, and regulation of school transportation.
To download the full report, click here.
Miles to Go: Bringing School Transportation into the 21st Century
Every day, nearly 25 million students travel to school in an instantly recognizable yellow bus. Since these vehicles drove onto the scene decades ago, almost nothing has changed about them or the school systems that use them to transport students.
While the school bus is the safest vehicle on the road, these days many school districts are struggling to provide efficient and adequate service because of rising costs, stagnant funding, and increasingly complex regulations.
In a recent report, Bellwether Education Partners analyzed school transportation on a national scale to determine how schools can improve their transportation systems while maintaining their impeccable safety record. This webinar, hosted by report co-author Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, will focus on the planning, efficiency, and regulation of school transportation.
Speakers:
Robert Puentes, President and CEO, Eno Center for Transportation
Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, Principal, Bellwether Education Partners
Safer, Faster, Cheaper: Aviation Certification for the 21st Century
Speakers:
Robert Puentes
Rui Neiva
Overview:
The United States has the safest airspace in the world. Maintaining that level of safety means ensuring that all civil aviation products and articles meet rigorous standards. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sets these standards and is responsible for overseeing these processes. The high level of safety that the U.S. aviation industry enjoys today is due to the careful and precise certification processes that the FAA maintains.
However, with rapid pace of change in the aviation industry, we run the risk of allowing these safety standards to slip, endangering thousands of lives. Key industry stakeholders have already raised concerns about the efficiency and functionality of the FAA’s certification and approval processes.
In order to ensure the continued safety and viability of the U.S. aviation industry reform is needed. The FAA needs to adapt to new technologies while also simultaneously maintaining high standards for safety at a time when government resources are scarce and demand from the industry is high.
Eno’s latest report highlights the issues with the current certification procedures and recommends key policy reforms. It focused on three specific areas:
- Aviation products and their components
- Air traffic control and air traffic controllers
- Repair stations
Scenario Planning Resources: New Approaches to Support the Next Generation of Scenario Planning in Transportation
June 14, 2017
1:30-3:00pm EST
FHWA and the Eno Center for Transportation Present:
Scenario Planning Resources: New Approaches to Support the Next Generation of Scenario Planning in Transportation – A Webinar
Communities constantly evolve and change in response to social, political, economic, technological and environmental forces. Effectively planning for this change in transportation requires the cultivation of a participatory and informed decision-making process that regularly considers what is likely to happen, what could happen and what the community wants to happen in the future. Scenario planning provides a framework to do just this – it is way to consider the issues and opportunities of different futures and plan accordingly.
While Scenario Planning is probably best known as a process for engaging the public, stakeholders and elected officials in tradeoff discussions about different desired or aspirational futures, it is also increasingly becoming a valuable technique to help plan in the face of uncertainty or consider emerging trends. This webinar will highlight the key chapters of the new publication from FHWA entitled “The Next Generation of Scenario Planning – A Transportation Practitioner’s Guidebook” as well summarize the findings of a synthesis report from the National Association of Regional Council’s (NARC) that surveyed 24 regional entities on their use of scenario planning. Finally, the webinar will also include a plenary discussion with key speakers to highlight some of the driving trends and issues facing MPOs and DOTs for which a scenario-based planning approach could be beneficial.
Webinar Agenda
- Why Scenario Planning?
- Next Generation Scenario Planning – A Practitioner’s Guide
- Regional Use of Scenario Planning
- Plenary Discussion – Emerging Issues in Transportation & How Scenario Planning Can Be An Effective Tool
Webinar Speakers:
Robert Puentes, Eno Center for Transportation
Ken Petty, Federal Highway Administration
Katharine Ange, Renaissance Planning Group
Erich Zimmerman, National Association of Regional Councils (NARC)
