TRB Webinar: Multimodality in Major Cities: Urban Success Stories

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 from 2:00-3:30PM ET that provided information about urban multimodal projects and the successes and challenges these projects faced with implementation. This webinar discussed lessons learned from these urban multimodal projects and practices of multimodal implementation.

This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Committee on Transportation Issues in Major Cities.

A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) was provided to attendees who registered and attended the webinar as an individual. This webinar has met approval by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu for instructions on receiving a copy of the recorded webinar.

Here are the slides from the presentation.


Webinar Presenters

• Chris Pangilinan, New York City Transit
• Rob Viola, New York Department of Transportation
• Colin Quinn-Hurst, City of Salt Lake
• Katherine Gregor, City of Austin

Moderator: Ivana Tasic, University of Utah


Webinar Outline

1. Stakeholder Engagement Strategies
2. Vision Zero in New York City
3. Salt Lake City Bike Share Program
4. Austin Complete Streets Program
5. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar were for presentations and the final 30 minutes were reserved for audience questions. The Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP) categorizes this webinar activity as relating to health, safety, and welfare including core technical.


Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants were able to:

• List the challenges of implementation for several urban multimodal transportation projects
• Describe the experiences from cities with diverse population density, land development, and transportation systems
• Summarize key focus points of successful projects from multimodal perspective and various performance indicators
• Describe how to bring different stakeholders together and obtain the best results in the implementation process
• Understand how to apply benefits from the described projects for future initiatives in other cities and metropolitan regions

Registration Information
There is no fee for employees of TRB Sponsors or TRB Sustaining Affiliates who register using their work email address. In addition to employees of TRB sponsor organizations, the following are eligible to receive complimentary webinar registration:

• TRB and National Academies employees;
• Chairs of TRB standing committees, sections, or groups;
• Members of the media;
• Employees of tribal governments; and
• Members of Congress or their staff.

Other sites must pay $89 per site. View our pricing page for details.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.


Professional Development Hour Information
A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) was provided to Professional Engineers (PEs) who registered and attended the webinar as an individual. For groups, only the person that registers and attends the session will receive a PDH certificate.

Individuals registered as Florida PEs are no longer required to email TRB with your license number to report your attendance. Instead, please use your certificate that TRB provides through RCEP.net as verification of your attendance to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers. Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board. This webinar was developed in March 2015. TRB has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP by TRB. Certificates of Completion will be issued to individuals who register for and attend the entire webinar session. Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Website:www.RCEP.net.


American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits
This webinar has met approval by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.