Fwd: City of Eugene Transportation Webinar Series - Invite

[Duncan Rhodes]

A new webinar next Wednesday FYI

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Subject:	City of Eugene Transportation Webinar Series - Invite
Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:11:25 +0000
From:	DUNBAR Reed C <RDu...@eugene-or.gov>
To:	DUNBAR Reed C <RDu...@eugene-or.gov>

Greetings,

 

You’re invited to join the Transportation Planning Team in a webinar viewing on Wednesday, February 18^th at noon.

 

Live webinar event will be held at City of Eugene Public Works - Engineering (180 W 8^th Avenue, 2^nd Floor, Lyle Conference Room) at 12:00pm.  Enter building from the north, next to the parking lot, doors are on the east side of the building.  Let me know if you plan to attend and I can send you the door code.  Covered bike parking located in the parking lot.

 

Be sure to bring your lunch!

 

Reed Dunbar, AICP (he/him) 

Senior Transportation Planner
City of Eugene | Public Works Engineering | Transportation Planning 

180 W. 8^th Avenue, Suite 200, Eugene, OR 97401

p: 541-682-5727 | e: rdu...@eugene-or.gov

 

Daylighting in Austin: A Proactive, Data-Driven Approach to Safer Intersections

 

Presenters: 

• Michael Kiel (Program Manager II, The City of Austin)
• Nan Jiang (Data Science Practice Lead, Toole Design) 

The City of Austin recently completed a daylighting study with Toole Design to improve intersection safety and advance its Vision Zero goals. (Daylighting involves removing sightline obstructions near intersections and physically preventing cars from parking too close to a crossing.) While many cities implement safety treatments after crashes occur, Austin is pioneering a more proactive, data-driven approach for daylighting. Building on five years of crash data, the study used a machine learning algorithm to identify systemic risk factors, developed a prioritization framework, and virtually reviewed more than 200 intersections. This approach allows Austin to target high-risk sites through facility profiles, ensuring the City invests resources where daylighting countermeasures can help prevent the largest number of crashes, injuries, and fatalities. The initiative also created an implementation toolkit with quick-build and long-term design strategies, as well as communication tools to build public support. This webinar will share findings from the study, lessons from peer cities, and how Austin is embedding daylighting into policies, design standards, and capital planning. Participants will leave with practical strategies for systemically evaluating, prioritizing, and implementing daylighting in their own communities.