Ite Talks Transportation

In this episode, ITE Member William J. (Jeff) Davis, Ph.D., Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Daniel Bornstein, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Exercise, and Sport Science, discuss the intersection of transportation and health. Jeff and Dan are colleagues at The Citadel in Charleston, SC, USA.

This episode of ITE Talks Transportation kicks off a new series on ITE initiatives, starting with Transportation and Health. City of Fort Worth, Texas Mayor Betsy Price talks about how transportation and health are linked in the city's initiatives and partnerships aimed at providing choices that help people improve their health.

This final episode in the Smart Communities series features Erin Toop and Howaida Hassan with the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, discussing the city's Connected and Automated Vehicle test bed efforts.

This episode in the Smart Communities series features Jim Dale, Assistant Director with the City of Austin, TX, USA Transportation Department, discussing smart communities efforts in the city of Austin.

Peter Koonce, P.E., manager of the City of Portland, OR, USA Bureau of Transportation’s Signals, Street Lighting, & ITS Division, discusses some of the ways that Portland is a smart community, such as through its regional approach to traffic signal systems.

In this 3rd episode of the Smart Communities series, New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg talks about smart mobility advances, initiatives, and challenges in NYC. This episode is sponsored by Iteris.

This second episode of ITE's Smart Communities series features Karina Ricks, director of the city of Pittsburgh, PA's new Mobility and Infrastructure Department. Karina will be a panelist during the Building Smart Communities technical session at the ITE/CITE 2017 Joint Annual Meeting and Exhibit in August.

Vik Bhide, chief traffic management engineer for the City of Tampa, FL, USA Transportation & Stormwater Services, is a regional subject matter expert in Smart Communities planning and deploying urban mobility solutions. He chairs the Hillsborough Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee. Vik currently leads Tampa’s Smart Cities Program. He has been instrumental in program development, design, and deployment of Advanced Traffic Management Systems for most of the municipalities in the Tampa Bay region. He is a key member of the Tampa Connected Vehicle Pilot team, the Marion Transit Way Autonomous Shuttle Service project, and the Smart Lighting project.

In this capstone episode of the Thought Leaders in Transportation series, Crissy Fanganello, Director of Transportation & Mobility for the City of Denver, CO, USA talks about implementing the innovative technologies discussed in the series while delivering safe, multimodal, integrated transportation services.

This episode features Lucy Saunders, Public Health Specialist, Transport & Public Realm with the Greater London Authority and Transport for London, and Dale Bracewell, Manager of Transportation Planning with the City of Vancouver, BC, Canada, speaking about implementing health and transportation initiatives in their respective cities. ITE and the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) partnered on this podcast with joint moderation by Bernie Wagenblast and CIHT’s Justin Ward.

Peter Rogoff, Chief Executive Officer of Sound Transit, shares his perspectives on transit issues and innovative solutions. Peter’s previous roles included Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration and USDOT Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy.

Reuben Sarkar, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation, discusses the new report, “The Transforming Mobility Ecosystem: Enabling an Energy-Efficient Future” and the four future states of mobility it explores. Read the report at https://energy.gov/eere/vehicles/downloads/transforming-mobility-ecosystem-report.

This episode features thoughts on parking by expert Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, LA.

Deborah (Debbie) Hersman is president and chief executive officer of the National Safety Council and chair of the Road to Zero Coalition. This episode is sponsored by Trafficware.

Karyn Warsow, Founder & Executive Director of Transportation-Public Health Link, discusses the connection between transportation and health.

Thea J. Walsh, AICP, talks about Smart Cities, focusing on Smart City Challenge Winner, Columbus, OH, USA. Thea is Director of Transportation Systems & Funding for the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission.

This episode features Brent Toderian, former Chief Planner for Vancouver, BC, Canada and current founder and principal at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS. Brent shares his perspective on city planning and urban design. He discusses the relationship between transportation engineers and planners, noting the evolution of the "plangineer."

The latest ITE Talks Transportation Podcast features Matts-Åke Belin, traffic safety strategist with the Swedish Transport Administration, who has been instrumental in Vision Zero where it originated in Sweden.