Visiting Scholar Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Michael Wegener, Institute of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, Germany
Speaker: C. Kenneth Orski, President, Urban Mobility Corporation
Speaker: Dr. T. R. Lakshmanan, Director, Bureau of Transportation Studies U.S. Department of Transportation
Speaker: Dr. Christine Johnson, Director, Federal Highway Administration Intelligent Transportation System Joint Program Office
Speaker: Dr. Peter Nijkamp Professor, Dept. of Regional Economics, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Speaker: Alain L. Kornhauser, Director, Transportation Program Professor, Civil Engineering & Operations Research Princeton University Princeton, N.J.
Speaker: Alan E. Pisarski, Independent Consultant Travel Behavior
Alan Pisarski will draw on two major statistical sources: the first is his recent study Commuting in America II. This work documents forty years of vends in American commuting patterns and associated demographic and land development change. The second source is the just released 1995 National personal Transportation Survey results, which identify emerging transportation and social issues.
Speaker: Patricia L. Mokhtarian Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Environmental Engineering, University of California @ Davis
Speaker: Dr. Roger Roess, Polytechnic University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Speaker: Dr. David Banister, Professor of Transport Planning at University College London
One of the major challenges to urban planning at the end of the century is the problem that continuous growth in traffic has had on the achievement of sustainable development. This presentation will present the major elements of the debate from a decision makers, together with the very considerable barriers to implementation.
