November 6, 2009

8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast/Registration

8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Lecture/Presentation

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Lecture/Presentation

November 7, 2009

7:30 a.m.–8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Lecture/Presentation

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Working Lunch (provided by APA)

1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Lecture/Presentation

On day one you'll learn:

• Managing the induced growth impacts of highways
• Transit-oriented development: impacts, financing, and implementation
• Regional jobs-housing balance and VMT reductions
• New urbanism, walkable neighborhoods, bikeway networks, and travel impacts
• Impacts of Light Rail transit, Bus Rapid Transit, and High-Speed Rail on urban form
• Managing goods movements within and between metro areas; Green Logistics
• Traffic calming and context-sensitive design
• Federal and state transportation policies and how they reshape the practice of transportation and land-use planning

On day two you'll learn:

• Measuring what matters: Transportation Performance Measures and Paradise (LOS)t
• CEQA transportation guidelines: Turning them from the greatest promoter of sprawl into a tool for sustainability
• Impact fees: Tax bad development and use it to fund community improvements
• Making the black box transparent: Travel demand models and making them work
• Demand-side transponomics: Transportation Demand Management
• Communism for cars and capitalism for people: Revealing the true costs of transport
• Getting parking right: The easiest fix for less congestion, stronger retailers, less CO2 and better equity
• The power grid: Why many smaller streets are better than fewer wider streets
• Walk and bike your way toward a healthier, carbon-neutral city
• Development-oriented transit: Making transit work as a solution to larger urban problems

Robert Cervero is a professor of city and regional planning at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the University of California Transportation Center. He is the author of six books on transportation planning and policy, all devoted to advancing sustainable mobility futures. He chairs the national advisory committee for the Active Living Program and the International Association for Urban Environment, serves on the editorial boards of seven journals, and regularly offers professional development courses for the World Bank Institute.  

Jeffrey Tumlin is a principal and sustainability practice leader at Nelson\Nygaard, a nationwide transportation planning firm based in San Francisco.  He has led the transportation work for station area and Transit Oriented Development plans for five dozen rail stations covering 10 rail systems around North America, and long-range master plans for cities such as Seattle, Santa Monica, and Abu Dhabi. His projects have won awards from APA, ASLA, AIA, and the CNU.