Transit-Oriented Development
How Do We Get There From Here?
ALL LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Online registration for the lecture has closed. Onsite registration will be available beginning at 5:30pm at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Thank you for supporting the Raleigh Department of Planning’s Designing a 21st Century City Lecture Series. We look forward to seeing you there!
May 10, 2007
6:00-8:30 p.m.
The Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Fletcher Opera Theater, in Raleigh, NC.
GET ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a fast growing trend to create healthy, vibrant, compact and sustainable cities by integrating a variety of transportation options into community design.
- How can we create a transit vision for our city and our region?
- What are the benefits of making transit investments? Why should we care?
- What cutting edge policies and planning techniques are being implemented in Transit-Oriented Development around the world?
- What forms can transit take, and which modes have been successful in cities like Raleigh?
- What is the connection between community design, transit choices and health?
OUR PRESENTERS
Dr. Robert Cervero is an internationally renowned author of Transit Metropolis, A Global Inquiry and scholar in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning and currently serves as chair of UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning. He has been an advisor and consultant on transport projects in many countries, including China, Colombia, Brazil, and Indonesia as well as a host of U.S. cities. He sits on the editorial boards of Urban Studies, Journal of Planning Literature, and Journal of Public Transportation, chairs the National Advisory Committee of the Active Living Research Program of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, and is a Fellow with the Urban Land Institute and World Bank Institute.
To access Dr. Cervero’s publications and presentations, click on:
www.dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/Cervero/robertcv.htm#BK
Accessible Cities and Regions: A Framework for Sustainable Transport and Urbanism in the 2st Century. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport, Working Paper, UCB-ITS-VWP-2005-3. www.its.berkeley.edu/publications/UCB/2005/VWP/UCB-ITS-VWP-2005-3.pdf
Transit Oriented Development in America: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects. Washington, D.C.: Transit Cooperative Research Program, Report 102, 2004; with G. Arrington, J. Smith-Heimer, R. Dunphy, and others. http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_102.pdf
Dr. Reid Ewing is a research professor at the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. He has consulted on traffic management and community design with dozens of states, cities, and private developers. Dr. Ewing has written top-selling books for the major planning and development organizations: Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association, and Institute of Transportation Engineers. His 2003 study of sprawl and public health may have received more national media coverage than any planning study ever covered, and has become the most widely cited paper in the Social Sciences.
To access Dr. Ewing’s publications and presentations, click on:
Pedestrian- and Transit-Friendly Design: A Primer for Smart Growth, EPA Smart Growth Network, 2000.www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/pdf/ptfd_primer.pdf
Traffic Calming State-of-the-Practice, Institute of Transportation Engineers/Federal Highway Administration, 1999. www.ite.org/traffic/tcstate.htm#tcsop
Flexible Design of New Jersey’s Main Streets, New Jersey Department of Transportation (with M. King) www.state.nj.us/transportation/publicat/
Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl, Smart Growth American/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2003 (with B. McCann) www.smartgrowthamerica.org/healthreport.html
Find directions to the Performing Arts Center and parking locations at www.progressenergycenter.com and click on "An Evening Out." For information about public transportation, visit www.gotriangle.org. The venue is a 10-minute walk south from Moore Square transit station. For overnight accommodations in Raleigh, click on www.visitRaleigh.com.
For more information on the May 10 lecture and to sign up for the lecture series mailing list, email trisha.hasch@ci.raleigh.nc.us or call 919-807-8480.
For More Information Contact:
Trisha Hasch
Downtown Revitalization Planner
Planning Department
133 Fayetteville Street, Suite 100
Raleigh, NC 27601
919-807-8480
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