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November 5-8, 2006
Chicago, Illinois, 2006

Sunday, Nov. 5
7:45 AM
Mobile Workshop
#1 Blue Island
8:00 AM
Charrette
8:00 AM
Mobile Workshops
#2 South Shore
#3 Suburbia to TOD
9:00 AM
Mobile Workshops
#4 Bike 2015 Tour
#5 Downtown Joliet
10:00 AM
Mobile Workshop
#6 Prairie Crossing
11:30 AM
Mobile Workshop
#7 Northwest Indiana
12:00 PM
Mobile Workshop
#8 North Shore
1:00 PM
Symposium
6:30 PM
Opening Reception
   
Monday, Nov. 6
8:00 AM
Opening Plenary
10:00 AM
Mobile Workshop
  #9 Multi-Modal TOD
10:30 AM
Workshops
  Rail~Volution 101
10:30 AM Mobile Workshops
  #10 South Side
  #11 Red Line South
  #12 City on the Move
1:00 PM
Workshops
1:00 PM
Mobile Workshops
#13 Pink Line Art
#14 Evanston
2:30 PM
Mobile Workshop
  #15 Wicker Park
3:00 PM
Workshops
5:00 PM
Special Events
   
Tuesday, Nov. 7
8:30 AM
Workshops
10:30 AM
Plenary Session
10:30 AM
Mobile Workshop
 

#16 Bronzeville

12:00 PM
Mobile Workshop
#17 Kenosha, WI
  #20 Pullman District
1:00 PM
Mobile Workshops
#18 City Bike Tour
  #19 Brown Line Tour
#21 Boulevards
1:30 PM
Workshops
3:30 PM
Workshops
5:00 PM
Trade Show Reception
   
Wednesday, Nov. 8
7:15 AM
Streetcar Coalition
8:00 AM
Mobile Workshop
#22 Green Chicago
8:30 AM
TOD Marketplace
8:30 AM
Workshops
10:30 AM
Workshops
12:15 PM
Closing Plenary
 
 


 

Rail~Volution 2006 Presentations

Note: Presentations from Rail~Volution 2006, held in Chicago November 5-8, have been provided as a courtesy of the presenters. All rights to the text and images in these presentations are reserved by the author(s). These presentations may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission from the author(s).

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Sunday, November 5, 2006
     
 
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
CHARRETTE
 

Offsite

How to Create an Integrated Station

Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California

View Tumlin presentation (54 pages / 4.6mb)

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1:00 PM-
5:00 PM
SYMPOSIUM
 

Offsite

Parking Management Best Practices

Todd Litman, Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Held at the American Planning Association, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60603

 
6:30 PM-
8:30 PM
SPECIAL EVENT  
 

Welcome Reception

  Monday, November 6, 2006
     
  8:00 AM-
10:00 AM
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
 

Grand
Ballroom
I&II

Welcome to Chicago

MarySue Barrett, President, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois
Jim Reilly, Chairman of the Board, Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Tim Martin, Secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield, Illinois
Samuel Assefa, Deputy Chief of Staff in Charge of Economic and Urban Development, City of Chicago Office of the Mayor, Chicago, Illinois
Gerald Bennett, Chairman, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Chicago, Illinois
Howard Decker FAIA, Project Director, Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut and Kuhn, Washington, DC
Jerry Roper, President and CEO, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, Illinois

View Decker presentation (54 pages / 4.3mb)

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Welcome: U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Mary E. Peters, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Washington, D.C.

View Peters speech transcript (4 pages / 0.3mb)

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State of the Rail~Volution

William W. Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, DC
Earl Blumenauer, 3rd District, Oregon, United States Congress, Washington, DC

  10:30 AM-
2:30 PM
CORE CURRICULUM WORKSHOP
 


101 over-
laps with
10:30 AM
& 1:30 PM
workshops

Avenues
Ballroom

Rail~Volution 101: An Introduction to Livable Communities

Moderator: GB Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon

What is Rail-Volution
Earl Blumenauer, 3rd District, Oregon, United States Congress, Washington, DC
View Blumenauer presentation (19 pages / 1.3mb)

What is Transit-Oriented Development
GB Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
View Arrington presentation (41 pages / 2.6mb)

The Benefits of Rail Transit in Shaping Communities
Todd Litman, Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
View Litman presentation (45 pages / 1.2mb)

The Community Perspective
Ann Becklund, Director, Community Relations, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Tom Shrout, Executive Director, Citizens for Modern Transit, St. Louis, Missouri
View Becklund/Shrout presentation (36 pages / 1.4mb)

The Developer and Business Community Perspective
Katherine Perez, Vice President, Development, Forest City, Los Angeles, California
Marilee Utter, President, Citiventure Associates, LLC, Denver, Colorado
View Perez/Utter presentation (29 pages / 2.7mb)

The Planner and Public Agency Perspective
Jack Wierzenski, Director, Economic Development and Planning, DART, Dallas, Texas
Debra Campbell, Director, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, Charlotte, North Carolina
View Wierzenski/Campbell presentation (54 pages / 1.6mb)

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  10:30 AM-
12:00 PM
WORKSHOPS
  Northwestern
/OSU
Room

Dubai: A Magic Carpet Ride?

Moderator: Taiwo Jaiyeoba, Director of Planning, Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento, California
Rajiv Batra, Senior Supervising Urban Designer, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Henry Williamson, National Director, Asia Capital Markets, Jones Lang LaSalle, Singapore

View Jaiyeoba presentation (54 pages / 3.6mb)

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  Indiana
/Iowa
Room

Changing the TOD Cookie Cutter

Moderator: Nat Bottigheimer, Director of Planning and Project Development, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC
Subrata Basu, Deputy Planning Director, Miami Dade Planning and Zoning, Miami, Florida
Robin Snyderman, Housing Director, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois
Cheryl Cort, Executive Director, Washington Regional Network for Livable Communities, Washington, DC
Mary Nelson, President and CEO, Bethel New Life, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

View Basu presentation (25 pages / 1.6mb)
View Snyderman presentation (16 pages / 0.5mb)
View Cort presentation (41 pages / 3.3mb)
View Nelson presentation (16 pages / 0.8mb)

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  Great
America
Room

More New Trends in Public Private Finance

Moderator: Bob Franklin, Boardmember, District 3, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
Jim Kennedy, Deputy Director-Redevelopment, Contra Costa County, Martinez, California
Samantha DeKoven, Housing Associate, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois
Patrick Starr, Vice President, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

View Kennedy presentation (58 pages/4.4mb)
View DeKoven presentation (21 pages/0.2mb)
View Starr (16 pages/1.8mb)

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  Lincolnshire Room

What is the Future of Transportation

Moderator: Mariia Zimmerman, Vice President for Policy, Reconnecting America, Washington, DC
Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Anne Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, Washington, DC
Lee Norris, Managing Director, Cherokee Investment Fund, Raleigh, North Carolina
Steve Heminger, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California
William Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, DC

View Zimmerman presentation (14 pages/0.5mb)

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  Michigan
/MSU
Room

Bikes as a Catalyst for Change

Moderator: James Koski, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Washington, DC
Nick Jackson, Deputy Director, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Chicago, Illinois
Andy Clarke, Executive Director, League of American Bicyclists, Washington, DC
Mohammad Nouri, Director, Bicycle & Pedestrian Program, Louisville Metro Planning & Design Services, Louisville, Kentucky

View Jackson presentation (31 pages/0.7mb)
View Clarke presentation (16 pages/0.7mb)
View Nouri presentation (18 pages/1.2mb)

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  Kane
Room

Oil or Not -- Are We in a Transportation Energy Crisis?

Moderator: Effie Stallsmith Community Planner, Office of Planning & Environment, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Gary Landrio, Vice President, Rail Operations, Stone Consulting & Design, Warren, Pennsylvania
Todd Litman, Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Rex Burkholder, Councilor, District 5, Metro Council, Portland, Oregon

View Landrio presentation (34 pages/1mb)
View Litman presentation (30 pages/0.7mb)
View Burkholder presentation (17 pages/0.5mb)

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  12:00 PM-
1:00 PM
Lunch
     
  1:00 PM-
2:30 PM
WORKSHOPS
  Great
America
Room

Master Developers and TOD

Moderator: Brian Newman, Councilor, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Lyn Harris, Manager, Rail Transit, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, Florida
Lee Norris, Managing Director, Cherokee Investment Fund, Raleigh, North Carolina
Jillian Detweiler, Land Development Planner, TriMet, Portland, Oregon

View Newman presentation (22 pages / 0.6mb)
View Norris presentation (22 pages / 0.6mb)

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  Michigan
/MSU
Room

Car Sharing Grows Up: a Tool for the New Millennium

Moderator: David Brook, Consultant, Carsharing International, Portland, Oregon
Benjamin Helphand, Project Manager, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Dennis Leach, Director, Division of Transportation, Arlington County Department of Environmental Services, Arlington, Virginia
Manuel Flores, Alderman, Ward 1, City of Chicago, Illinois

View Leach presentation (27 pages / 1.8mb)

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  Purdue/
Wisconsin
Room

New Tools for Working with Stakeholders

Moderator: Michelle Simmons, Public Involvement Coordinator, Miami-Dade Transit,
Miami, Florida
David Emory, Senior Planner, Transportation Division, Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta, Georgia
Hugh Bartling, Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

View Simmons presentation (22 pages / 1.2mb)
View Bartling presentation (12 pages / 0.5mb)

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  Northwestern
/OSU
Room

Critical Cargo: The Importance of Freight to the Regional Economy

Moderator: Mayor Mike Smith, Village of New Lenox, Illinois
Marcia Jimenez, Project Director, CREATE, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago, Illinois
Jason Tai, Director, Division of Public and Intermodal Transportation, Illinois Department of Transportation
Earl Wacker, Director, Chicago Transportation Coordination Office, Chicago, Illinois

View Jimenez presentation (14 pages / 0.3mb)
View Wacker presentation (17 pages / 0.7mb)
View Wilson presentation (8 pages / 0.1mb)

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  Lincolnshire Room

Carrot or Stick: Regional Agencies Use Funding to Support Smart Growth

Moderator: Randy Blankenhorn, Executive Director, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Chicago, Illinois
James Spering, Mayor / Commissioner, City of Suisun City / Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Suisun City, California
Greg Chew, Community Design Funding Program Manager, Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Sacramento, California
James Corless, Senior Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California

View Spering/Corless presentation (22 pages / 1.3mb)
View Chew presentation (15 pages / 0.9mb)

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  Kane
Room

Recovering Opportunities: Learning from Disaster

Moderator: David Goldberg, Communications Director, Smart Growth America, Decatur, Georgia
John Beckman, Principal, Wallace, Roberts, and Todd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tony Salazar, President, West Coast Division, McCormack Baron Salazar, Los Angeles, California
Diana Mendes, Manager, Transit Rail West; Senior Vice President, DMJM+Harris, Arlington, Virginia

View Beckman presentation (19 pages / 1.3mb)
View Mendes presentation (12 pages / 0.5mb)

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  3:00 PM-
4:30 PM
CORE CURRICULUM WORKSHOPS
  Indiana
/Iowa
Room

Building Livable Cities

Moderator: Richard Benner, Senior Assistant Counsel, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Christine Carlyle, Director of Planning, Solomon Cordwell Buenz, Chicago, Illinois
Eric Fang, Director of Urban Planning and Design, Street-Works LLC, White Plains, New York
Bruce Appleyard, Project Manager, Moore, Iacofano & Goltsman, Inc., Portland, Oregon

View Fang presentation (23 pages / 5.1mb)
View Carlyle presentation (26 pages / 2.7mb)

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  Northwestern/
OSU
Room

How Transit Options Respond to Needs and Opportunities

Moderator: Tim Baldwin, Senior Associate, URS, Denver, Colorado
Bert Gregory, CEO, Mithun Architects + Designers + Planners, Seattle, Washington
Jean Sanson, Senior Planner, URS Corporation, Denver, Colorado
Alden Raine, Vice President / National Practice Leader in TOD, DMJM+Harris Planning, Boston, Massachusetts

View Gregory presentation (59 pages / 4.5mb)
View Raine presentation (48 pages / 3.6mb)

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  3:00 PM-
4:30 PM
WORKSHOPS
  Kane
Room

Mixing it Up for the Better -- Mixed-Race, Mixed-Income, Mixed-Use TOD

Moderator: Mariia Zimmerman, Vice President for Policy, Reconnecting America, Washington, DC
Shawntera Hardy, City Planner, Department of Planning and Economic Development, City of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Gail Latimore, Executive Director, Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation, Dorchester, Massachusetts
Steve Porras, Vice President - Acquisitions, Affordable Housing, LR Development, Chicago, Illinois
Carrie Makarewicz, Program Manager for Community & Economic Development, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois

View Zimmerman presentation (6 pages / 0.4mb)
View Latimore presentation (12 pages / 0.9mb)
View Porras presentation (8 pages / 0.3mb)
View Makarewicz presentation (11 pages / 0.2mb)

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  Great
America
Room

New Approaches to Corridor Planning

Moderator: Dr. Beverly Scott, General Manager / Chief Executive Officer, Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento, California
Alan Jones, Associate, Steer Davies Gleave, London, England, United Kingdom
Bill Lenski, Manager Corridor Planning Studies, Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Ned Thomas, Senior Planner, Wood Rodgers, Las Vegas, Nevada

View Jones presentation (39 pages / 2.3mb)
View Lenski presentation (9 pages / 0.7mb)
View Thomas presentation (18 pages / 1.2mb)

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  McHenry
Room

LEED™ for Neighborhood Developments

Moderator: Jennifer Henry, LEED™-ND Program Manager, US Green Building Council, Washington, DC
Heather Smith, Planning Director, Congress for the New Urbanism, Chicago, Illinois
Susan Mudd, State Director, Wisconsin, Citizens for a Better Environment, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Doug Farr, Founding Principal, Farr Associates, Architects & Planners, Chicago, Illinois

View Smith presentation (32 pages / 1.9mb)
View Mudd presentation (23 pages / 0.6mb)

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  Lincolnshire Room

Streetcars Change the Way Transit is Done

Moderator: Fred Hansen, General Manager, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Tiffany Sweitzer, President, Hoyt Street Properties, LLC, Portland, Oregon
Jeffrey Boothe, Partner / Chair, Holland and Knight / New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC
Len Brandrup, Director of Transportation, City of Kenosha, Wisconsin
Mark Dorn, Senior Project Manager, URS, Portland, Oregon

View Sweitzer presentation (19 pages / 1.2mb)
View Brandrup presentation (15 pages / 0.9mb)
View Dorn presentation (9 pages / 1mb)

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  Michigan/
MSU
Room

Placemaking and Station Design

Moderator: Diane Legge Kemp, Principal, DLK Civic Design, Chicago, Illinois
Gregory Montgomery, Deputy Director-Transportation Group, VBN Architects, Oakland, California
Eduardo Galindo, Vice President, CDM, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Steve Friedman, President, SB Friedman & Company, Wheeling, West Virginia

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  Purdue/
Wisconsin
Room

Transit-Oriented Communities

Moderator: Heather Tabbert, Project Manager, Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Otto Condon, Associate Partner, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Washington, DC
Tony Mazzella, Senior Transportation Planner, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle, Washington
Richard Wilson, Principal, URS Corporation, Chicago, Illinois

View Condon presentation (39 pages / 3mb)
View Mazzella presentation (12 pages / 1mb)
View Wilson presentation (45 pages / 4.9mb)

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  5:00 PM-
6:00 PM
SPECIAL EVENTS
  Great
America
Room

New Starts Gathering

Facilitator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner / Chair, Holland and Knight / New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC

Top

  Lincolnshire
Room

Surface Transportation Policy Partnership Gathering

Facilitator: Anne Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, Washington, DC
Kevin McCarty, Senior Director of Federal Policy, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, Washington, DC

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  5:00 PM-
7:00 PM
SPECIAL EVENT
  Avenues Ballroom

Completing the Streets for Transit: A Planning Workshop

Phil Harris, Transportation Planner, Charlotte Department of Transportation, Charlotte, North Carolina
Barbara McCann, Coordinator, National Complete Streets Campaign, Washington, D.C.
Ron Kilcoyne, General Manager, Greater Bridgeport Transit District, Bridgeport, Connecticut
John La Plante, Director of Traffic Engineering, T.Y. Lin International Institute of Transportation Engineers, Chicago, Illinois

View McCann presentation (89 pages/6472mb)

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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

     
  8:30 AM-
10:00 AM
CORE CURRICULUM WORKSHOPS
  Indiana
/Iowa
Room

Community Building Partnerships

Moderator: Lynn Flint Shaw, Boardmember, DART Board of Directors, Dallas, Texas
Daniel Meyers, Senior Transportation Planner, URS Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Richard Petersheim, Partner, LandDesign, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina
Troy Russ, Principal, Glatting Jackson, Orlando, Florida
Anna Apostolos, Program Manager, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, Los Angeles, California

View Meyers presentation (26 pages / 3.0mb)
View Apostolos presentation (28 pages / 1.7mb)

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  Northwestern
/OSU
Room

Providing Transportation Options in the Livable Community

Moderator: Lavinia Gordon, Transportation Options Division Manager, City of Portland, Oregon
Rex Burkholder, Councilor, District 5, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Sharon Feigon, CEO, I-GO Car Sharing, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Richard Hayden, Principal, DLK Civic Design, Chicago, Illinois

View Gordon presentation (5 pages / 0.3mb)
View Burkholder presentation (33 pages / 1.1mb)
View Feigon presentation (19 pages / 0.4mb)
View Hayden presentation (19 pages / 0.9mb)

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  8:30 AM-
10:00 AM
WORKSHOPS
  Great
America
Room

Redefining What We Expect From Joint Development

Moderator: Marsha Kaiser, Urban Planning and Public Policy Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, Baltimore, Maryland
Bill Sirois, TOD Manager, RTD FasTracks Team, Denver, Colorado
Nat Bottigheimer, Director of Planning and Project Development, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC
Jeff Ordway, Department Manager, Joint Development, Real Estate Services, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California

View presentation (59 pages / 2.2mb)

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  Purdue/
Wisconsin
Room

Innovations in Public and Private Finance

Moderator: Kim Delaney, Growth Management Coordinator, Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, Stuart, Florida
Mary Jo Morandini, General Manager, Beaver County Transit Authority, Rochester, Pennsylvania
Edward Fishman, Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, Washington, DC
Art Guzzetti, Director of Policy and Advocacy, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, DC
Jack Kanarek, Senior Director, Project Development, NJ Transit, Newark, New Jersey

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  Michigan
/MSU
Room

That's Not What I Meant!!! Hearing the Other Guy

Moderator: Ellen Vanderslice, Transportation Project Manager, City of Portland, Oregon
Donald Halligan, Assistant Director, Office of Planning, Maryland Department of Transportation, Hanover, Maryland
Dee Allsop, Group President, Harris/Wirthlin Brand & Strategic Consulting, Reston, Virginia
M. David Lee, Principal, Stall and Lee, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Mary Ann Smith, Alderman, 48th Ward, City of Chicago, Illinois

View Allsop presentation (17 pages / 0.3mb)

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  Lincolnshire
Room

Getting the Most Bang for the Buck from Streetcars

Moderator: David Taylor, National Director, Transit Oriented Design, HDR, Tampa, Florida
John Carroll, Principal, Carroll Investments, Portland, Oregon
GB Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Ed Crawford, Public Liaison, Hillsborough Area Regional Transit, Tampa, Florida
Keith Jones, Executive Director, Central Arkansas Transit Authority, North Little Rock, Arkansas
Ethan Melone, Project Manager, City of Seattle, Washington

View presentation (31 pages / 3.5mb)

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  Kane
Room

Intermodal Centers

Moderator: Rick Harnish, Executive Director, Midwest High Speed Rail Association, Chicago, Illinois
Eric Anderson, Lead Design Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, Colorado
Darrel Babuk, Senior Associate, DLK Civic Design, Chicago, Illinois
William Baumgardner, Associate, Arup, San Francisco, California
Tam Kutzmark, Transportation Project Manager, DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference, Oak Brook, Illinois

View Anderson presentation (39 pages / 3.7mb)
View Baumgardner presentation (22 pages / 1.1mb)
View Kutzmark presentation (28 pages / 0.6mb)

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  McHenry
Room

Transportation's Future Looks Green

Moderator: Diana Mendes, Manager, Transit Rail West - Senior Vice President, DMJM+Harris, Fairfax, Virginia
Bonnie Richardson, Architect/Principal Planner/LEED AP, City of Tempe, Arizona
Lisa Padilla, Principal, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Los Angeles, California
Bert Gregory, CEO, Mithun Architects + Designers + Planners, Seattle, Washington

View presentation (131 pages / 9.0mb)

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  10:30 AM-12:00 PM PLENARY SESSION
  Grand
Ballroom
I&II

The Changing Shape of the City

Moderator: Harriet Tregoning, Executive Director, Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Washington, DC
M. David Lee, Principal, Stull and Lee Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Karen Lado, Denver Office Director, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Columbia, Maryland
Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Urban Center, Washington, DC

View Puentes presentation (32 pages / 1.6mb)

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  12:00 PM-
1:30 PM
Lunch
     
  12:15 PM
1:15 PM
LUNCHTIME SPECIAL EVENTS
  Great
America
Room

FTA's Guidelines on Systems Planning for Quality Transit Projects

Facilitator: Darin Allan, Community Planner, Office of Planning and Environment, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Melissa Laube, Senior Transportation Planner, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, US DOT / Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Lyons, Senior Project Manager, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, US DOT / Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Cambridge, Massachusetts

View Allan presentation (19 pages / 0.8mb)

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  Lincolnshire
Room

Building a Bicycling Nation

Facilitator: Andy Clarke, Executive Director, League of American Bicyclists, Washington, DC
Jan Gehl, Principal, Gehl Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bob Wislow, Chairman, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, Illinois

Top

  Indiana
/Iowa
Room

TOD Managers' Forum

Facilitator: Jeff Ordway, Manager of Property Development, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California

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  1:30 PM-
3:00 PM
CORE CURRICULUM WORKSHOPS
  McHenry
Room

Understanding and Using Federal Legislation and Regulations

Moderator: Gary Thomas, President / Executive Director, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas
Anne Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, Washington, DC
Brigid Hynes-Cherin, Associate Administrator for Policy and Environment, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC

View Canby presentation (14 pages / 0.3mb)
View Hynes-Cherin presentation (28 pages / 0.3mb)

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  Indiana
/Iowa
Room

TOD Principles

Moderator: Paul Morris, Managing Principal, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Stephen Antupit, Urban Design Strategist, Mithun Architects, Seattle, Washington
Jillian Detweiler, Land Development Planner, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Catherine Cox-Blair, Principal City Planner, City/County of Denver, Colorado
Thomas Cluff, Strategic Planner, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mark Garner, Senior City Planner, City of Minneapolis, Minnesota

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  Northwestern
/OSU
Room

The Role of Parking in the Livable Community

Moderator: Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California
Gerard Walters, Principal, Fehr and Peers Associates, Walnut Creek, California
Todd Litman, Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

View Walters presentation (45 pages / 1.5mb)
View Litman presentation (30 pages / 1.8mb)

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  1:30 PM-
3:00 PM
WORKSHOPS
  Great
America
Room

Mixed-Use Strategies: Reducing the Risk and Educating Developers

Moderator: Karyn Romano, Metro Strategies, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Marilee Utter, President, Citiventure Associates LLC, Denver, Colorado
Sam Bradner, Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, Baltimore, Maryland
Heather Tabbert, Project Manager, Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Doug Wrenn, Principal, Rodgers Consulting, Inc., Germantown, Maryland

View Utter presentation (17 pages / 0.6mb)
View Bradner presentation (7 pages / 1.0mb)
View Tabbert presentation (14 pages / 1.2mb)
View Wrenn presentation (14 pages / 0.6mb)

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  Michigan
/MSU
Room

Community Repair through TOD?

Moderator: Shelley Poticha, President and CEO, Reconnecting America and the Center for Transit Oriented Development, Oakland, California
Octavian Spanner, Director of Planning, City of Opa Locka, Florida
Donald Halligan, Assistant Director, Office of Planning, Maryland Department of Transportation, Hanover, Maryland

View Halligan presentation (28 pages / 4.4mb)

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  Kane
Room

Sustainable Design for Sustainable Mobility

Moderator: Mike Townes, President / CEO, Hampton Roads Transit, Hampton, Virginia
Randy Neufeld, Chief Strategic Officer, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Chicago, Illinois
Janet Attarian, Project Director, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago, Illinois
Cathy Strombom, Principal Professional Associate/Senior Planning Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Seattle, Washington

View Townes presentation (20 pages / 1.1mb)
View Neufield presentation (43 pages / 1.6mb)
View Attarian presentation (23 pages / 1.3mb)
View Strombom presentation (17 pages / 0.4mb)

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  Purdue/
Wisconsin
Room

Corridor Land Use: Transit + Development

Moderator: Stephen Miller, Associate Principal, DLK Civic Design, Chicago, Illinois
Jeffrey Sriver, General Manager, Strategic Planning, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, Illinois
Trent Lethco, Associate, Arup, Chicago, Illinois
Steve Friedman, President, SB Friedman & Company, Wheeling, West Virginia
Mark Walbrun, Principal/Vice President, Passenger Rail and Transit Division, TranSystems Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Susan Herre, AIA AICP, Office of Engineering, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC

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  Lincolnshire
Room

Making the Connection with BRT: Infill Transit at its Best

Moderator: Kenneth Sislak, Associate Vice President, DMJM+Harris, Cleveland, Ohio
Joseph Calabrese, General Manager, Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority, Cleveland, Ohio
David Wohlwill, Lead Transit Planner, Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kathleen Sanchez, Planning Manager, Metro, Los Angeles, California
Jim Hamre, Senior Planning Manager, Corridor and Bus Program, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC
Lynn Montei, Lynn Montei Associates, Elmhurst, Illinois
David Vozzolo, Senior Associate, HDR Inc., Alexandria, Virginia

View Sislak presentation (18 pages / 0.7mb)
View Wohlwill presentation (29 pages / 2.5mb)

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  3:30 PM-
5:00 PM
CORE CURRICULUM WORKSHOPS
  Indiana
/Iowa
Room

TOD Design Guidelines

Moderator: Theresa O'Donnell, Planning Director, City of Dallas, Texas
Chris Augenstein, Transportation Planning Manager, Valley Transportation Authority, San Jose, California
Peter Albert, Long Range Planning Manager, San Francisco MTA, San Francisco, California
Dennis Wilson, Principal, Townscape, Inc., Dallas, Texas

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  Northwestern
/OSU
Room

Financing Livable Communities

Moderator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner / Chair, Holland and Knight / New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC
Paul Marx, Senior Economist, US DOT, FTA Office of Policy Development, Washington, DC
Dan Walsh, Vice President, Bank of America, Chicago, Illinois
Andy Cotugno, Director of Planning, Metro, Portland, Oregon

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