Reminder: ADD30 Webinar on Innovation in Traffic Impact Assessment: 3/29 @ 1pm ET (AICP credits available)
McDonald, Noreen
ADD30 Members and Friends,
Please consider registering for our committee’s upcoming webinar on TIA. Details below.
Noreen
The Transport and Land Development Committee (ADD30) invites you to join us for a webinar on Innovation in Traffic Impact Assessment scheduled
for March 29 at 1pm ET. Please register in advance at:
https://nasem.zoom.us/meeting/register/e059525caae12533dc2040ba88984b7b
Webinar Details:
Traffic Impact Assessment: Two studies exploring the development and implementation of innovations in TIA in the US
Cities and counties across the US are increasingly recognizing a need to update their TIA practices to support more sustainable, multimodal-oriented development patterns. This webinar presents recent research aimed at understanding and addressing the challenges
faced by transportation and land use professionals as they seek to adopt new approaches to assessing and mitigating the impacts of urban development.
AICP credits available: https://planning.org/events/eventsingle/9171658/
Presenters:
Tabitha Combs is Research Associate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Combs has expertise in the relationships among transportation, land use, travel behavior, and social equity. She will be sharing findings from interviews and surveys conducted in 62 communities across the southeast US about the drivers of and barriers to change in local traffic impact assessment practices. Dr. Combs holds a PhD and masters’ degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kristina Currans is an Assistant Professor in Planning at University of Arizona (Tucson). She studies the intersection between travel behavior and land use development, with an emphasis on the data and methods used to estimate and evaluate the transportation impacts of land use development. She will be presenting on the seminal findings of a 3-year study sponsored by California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) based on a paper that won a “Best Paper Award” at TRB from ADD30 the Standing Committee on Transportation and Land Development. Dr. Currans has a doctorate in civil engineering.
Melissa McMahon, AICP, is Transportation Research and Site Plan Development Manager for Arlington County, Virginia’s Commuter Services Bureau. She oversees the conditions, monitoring, and enforcement of transportation demand management in new development, and supports the County’s shared-use mobility initiatives and transportation performance measurement programs. Ms. McMahon will be discussing some of the challenges Arlington County has faced in adopting multimodal-oriented impact assessment practices. Melissa holds an undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University and master degrees in Urban and Regional Planning and Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Noreen McDonald
Chair, City & Regional Planning, UNC Chapel Hill
Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor